Using DBs in Education

Review details of the upcoming field trip. Analyze the outcomes of the Henning Project. Review Chapter 6 of the DDDM book. Continue with the discussion concerning the Henning Project.

Enhanced Podcast: Yaumi presents his Expanded Personal Database. Review Chapter 6. Discuss the Henning Project. Review the DB suggestions and develop a strategy for completing the project.

Students present their Expanded Personal Database projects. Dr. Henning proposes that the class create a system for analyzing ITBS data for a school. The students identify the requirements, deliverables, fields and possible methods for doing the task. Unfortunately the battery for the mic died for the last half of the class so there is no record o the discussion.

Reviewed progress on their Expanded Personal DB projects. Introduced pivot tables. Students followed a few hands-on Excel exercises. Discuss Chapter 4.

The students discuss progress on the Expanded Personal Database assignment. Ch 3 - Getting Started with Data is discussed. Students review data in Ch 4. Discussed what they learned about the high school.

Review Measures Intersection Activity. Student-led article reviews. Midterm Review

Students present their personal database assignments. Explore Excel-based student data. Dr. Z discusses Chapter 2.

Review of student progress with Personal Database assignment. Yaumi's article analysis of "When Perceptions Bump Into Data." Andy's article analysis was lost due to technical difficulties.

Review Personal Database assignment plans. Article analysis of "Data - Mining with a Mission #1 and #2"

Dr. Z leads article analysis for "Data-Mining with a Mission." Access Chapter C is introduced.

Introduction by having the students hypothetically create a decision-support system for assisting in the Katrina Disaster. Introduce Access Unit B.