LT2_Act4

I visited many of the data visualization sites and did not truly understand how I can use them to visualize my data. I am somewhat familiar with Wordle and do not know how this will help me with my data. Currently I use Excel to keep track of my data. I color code and sort students by proficiency level, race, gender,ELA status, and if they are SPED. I like the fact the I can sort my data by any of these categories. I can see how all of my boys scores compare to those of my girls. I can also sort the data to see how the achievement gap is affected in my classroom. My team also groups all of our data together to see which teacher is best a reaching the students in a certain area (letter sound correspondence) and have that teacher share her strategies. As a school we have tried many other data programs and ideas and this seems to be the one that works the best for us. If you know of any that can do more than Excel and are user friendly, please let me know.