Inservice Activities

1) Overview: What's possible and why do it?

Some examples: Electronic Toys

2) What's possible with a spreadsheet?

	Illustration: Motion Diagram, Chemical Equillibrium #1 and #2
	Multiple Representations: Motion and Graphs
	Advanced Topics: Dispersion
	Assessment: Student work (perfect) (not quite)
	Art: "Geometer's Sketchpad"

(Animations won't run? Click here)

3) What are the basic tools?

	Scroll bars: click here
	Combo boxes (drop down menu): click here
	Buttons with Visual Basic (VB): click here

4) Building up a "picture"

	The animated dot click
	Add another dot click
	Change the order click
	Add more dots click
	And even more dots click

5) How to create the basic tools:

	A quick tutorial (Word Doc) (PDF file)
	Some Visual Basic text for "Make Louie Grow" click
	A "Louie" spreadsheet that needs two more cell definitions click