Linking our APA Project Learning

today's the assignment

• editing APA paper and saving to PDF format to share, this will be done via google docs. 
• with google docs you can't publish a PDF to the web, but you can share with all your contacts or anyone you choose
• posting video captures, 1st capture the how to add functions to Excel jing  video add ins, 
• 2nd capture data analysis tools for  Excel how to TTest jing video

this entire process has been very beneficial, from exploring new excel functions, to apa style research, and using the jing video capture to help teach others the "how to" add features and perform significnt difference testing. it is note worthy that the citation / reference tool bar available as a part of MS Word will not let yopu indent the second line as required in apa fromat.

Understanding TTest Function APA Format

The TTest function allows you to look a data from a statistical point of view. this view is not easily understood and needs a data analysis tool to decipher all the numbers (exponentially large numbers) into smaller easier to understand format. the main goal is interpreting data as it relates to your research outcomes. report data apa format with standard deviation (Stdev) and the Significant Difference (SD) if any. all this really pints to is whether the intervention or test scores increased by chance or because you actually made a difference. you may not be able to know exactly what made the difference without further investigation and more experiments that add only one variable at a time and tracks a separate control group. either way you look at this data you main goal is for students to always increase their learning of concepts and skills and for you as a teacher figure out what methods are best at achieving that goal. the iste nets are designed for you to integrate technology into your teaching and your own personal learning because if you are excited about learning then chance are so will your students.

APA Formatted Research

today we will start an APA style research paper. apa has their own preferences for formatting that everyone must adhere to when doing research and submitting the research for peer review or grading, this unique style of formatting insures uniformed data reporting. this uniformed style will typically lead to less confusion when interpreting the data presented. this lesson meets the ISTE Standards as they relate to doing different types of research and data collection. it also requires you to format your project or paper in a different style that you may not have been familiar with like MLA. when you work with outcomes on pre-test and post test analysis you need a converter to check significant difference (SD) <.05>(NSD) Link to converter this is a accomplished by using the TTEST function on excel data. now the task is writing all this work into an APA style research paper due by 29Mar2011.

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Tsunami travelling across Pacific

this is an awesome graphic of the tsunami ripple across the pacific ocean. it should be noted that these waves don't crash on the shore like waves they travel across the land until the land becomes higher than the wave. i should also point out that the tsunami wave loses very little energy once it starts to come into contact with obstacles and is travelling at a very high rate of speed.