For this badge, I learned how to make effective spreadsheets on Excel in order to organize relevant data. Because my theme for this course encompasses the works of children's book author Kevin Henkes, I was a little stumped at first as far as what data I could make into a spreadsheet. I finally settled on the number of awards won for Kevin Henkes' famous mouse books, and displayed the data over a series of decades.
This data serves to prove the legitimacy of my topic, first and foremost; I was a little apprehensive at first that it wouldn't be taken seriously, but now I have the award data to back up these critically acclaimed children's books and their merit. As the spreadsheet shows, Kevin Henkes has won 37 awards in total for his 7 mouse books; one of those awards was even received in 2013, ten years after the original publication date, from the Children's Literature Association for an award given specifically to books that the Association believes deserved more recognition upon publication. Secondly, this data regards my theme alone, so it is relevant as well.
Getting to format the spreadsheet and make it visually appealing was great for me as well, because I do have experience formatting Word documents but I don't usually take as much time to format Excel sheets, so it was a great opportunity to branch out and expand my skillset.
Download and view my fully formatted spreadsheet here.
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This data serves to prove the legitimacy of my topic, first and foremost; I was a little apprehensive at first that it wouldn't be taken seriously, but now I have the award data to back up these critically acclaimed children's books and their merit. As the spreadsheet shows, Kevin Henkes has won 37 awards in total for his 7 mouse books; one of those awards was even received in 2013, ten years after the original publication date, from the Children's Literature Association for an award given specifically to books that the Association believes deserved more recognition upon publication. Secondly, this data regards my theme alone, so it is relevant as well.
Getting to format the spreadsheet and make it visually appealing was great for me as well, because I do have experience formatting Word documents but I don't usually take as much time to format Excel sheets, so it was a great opportunity to branch out and expand my skillset.
Download and view my fully formatted spreadsheet here.
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