Drawing Using MS Excel

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint.

Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet application for calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA . In one of my computer classes, I thought of using MS Excel as a medium where students can draw a concrete object using only the cells of the worksheet.

These are some of the samples that my third year students did in one of their activities in my class.

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Clean Schools, Clean Elections

The Department of Education of the Philippines issued a DepEd order no. 10, s. 2010 called " Schools, Clean Elections Program". It aims to ensure that our schools and teachers are protected from overt politicking. The program will be in effect for the entire election campaign period until final outcome of the elections at the national and local levels is determined.

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Email in the Classroom

Email provides a number of learning opportunities for students across all Learning Areas, especially in regard to Overarching Outcomes One and Nine:

Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others. Students interact with people and cultures other than their own and are equipped to contribute to the global community.

Curriculum Framework, 1998

Email can be very formal (a business letter) or informal (a quick reminder memo). It can be long (contain an attachment) or very short (a note). Email can also be used for very personal communications.

Email has changed the way we communicate in print, because it is so quick, easy and convenient

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