DataBase and SpreadSheet to me

1. How do I use Database?
Q: After the Database lesson, I have gotten an new tool that I can use to save the information about my students, my friends, doctors, and people I need to contact with. I can memorize their data easily and arrange them properly. Even When I need to deal with some files or letters, I can combine it into other softwares. Database is a useful tool, especially when I need to arrange a lot of data.

I might also use it to record students’ performance or score in every subject, so that preparing the report card in the end of the semester would be easier for me.
2. How do your students use Database?
Q: Actually, my students who are third and forth graders may not use Database in their ages because they probably don’t have so much data to arrange. If it is possible, I think they can use it to record the homework, due days, teachers, tests for each subject.
3. What else would you like to do with DB - think in terms of student tools/assessment as well as teacher productivity?
Q: In social studies, when they have this assignment that doing a survey of each family in particular area, such as the members, ages, the number of children, the financial amount, and more, DB can be a good tool for my elder students.
4. How do you use Spreadsheets?
Q: Usually, I use Spreadsheets to calculate the scores for my students after each mid-term exam and final exam. We also need to calculate several scores according to their class performance, assignments, oral tests, and more. There are so many numbers I need to sum, average …etc. Using calculating machine is too slow and easy to make mistakes. As a result, I can’t work without Spreadsheets.
5. How do your students use Spreadsheets?
Q: As a matter of fact, I can hardly think about that my young students use
Spreadsheets to do anything, because most of them just learn how to use the
traditional calculating machine at the third grade. However, the step of using Spreadsheets might be easier for them. Maybe they can use Spreadsheets to calculate their pin money.

6. What else would you like to do with SS - think in terms of student tools/assessment as well as teacher productivity?
Q: For my elder students, in social studies, they might have a assignment: to calculate
the population or the economy number of the cities, counties, and towns.
Sometimes numbers stand for important events or conditions, in this type of learning process, SS play an important role.