First Break
Next, the Education section had them turn off monitors, which was very helpful. Paul and Kevin stumbled their ways through the wonderful statistics Elizabeth and past instructors had prepared, and the extra effort definitely shined through on the students. Starting off with sighs and groans of complaint, Elizabeth's graduation money worksheet slowly warmed the students up. Next, the Genetics vocabulary gave them concrete examples, and finally the linking data worksheet got a lot more comments, laughter, just general interaction.
There were frequent responses to our summary questions ("What function finds the minimum? How do I select non-consecutive values").
Exploration
After a rough Facebook start, every screen had an Excel file on it the majority of the session, switching usually to statistics online. Many sports related, although there was one "Most Dangerous Cities" which started an interesting, if short lived, discussion. Several students (the front row) collaborated with questions, and the back row learned a good deal more than they wanted to about importing data from a website and formatting it correctly.
Also, speaking of rows, at the beginning of the session we miraculously got everyone to sit in the first two rows, which has been very helpful in such a big room.
During the Certification section, the high level overview of the Excel Your Skills game took up 10 minutes, so the students blogged early while Kevin went to Elizabeth's room for collaboration. Next, they worked on the projects they had during Exploration. As they had complained when break hit that they had to finish their projects up, it seemed the enthusiasm was there to continue.
Many of the projects looked like this:
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