Google Calendar allows you to keep track of your appointments, responsibilities, meetings, and life online rather than on paper. Your schedule is available for viewing by day, week, month, or 4-day periods. If you are looking for something specific within your calendar and can’t remember where to find it, you can search by key words. The time of each event is highlighted in red, making it easy to locate. You can create more than one calendar: one for work, your social life, and your child or spouse’s schedule. You can add public calendars to your own in case you want something like all Milwaukee Brewers’ games to show up on your personal calendar.
Every year, my sixth graders are given assignment notebooks at the beginning of the year. Many of the kids either lose their assignment notebook or completely deface it at some point during the year. Rather than having to purchase a new assignment notebook, they could use Google Calendar as a replacement for their missing or destroyed assignment notebook.
As teachers, Google Calendar could be used to keep track of the district calendar, the school calendar, and grade level calendars. What a great way for everyone in a school or district to be on the same page by making all relevant calendars public. With the help of Google Calendar, we would never have to wonder again who was using the gym when, or when the next band concert was taking place, or if the next staff meeting was coming up next week. It would all be right at our fingertips.
3 comments:
Amanda, I thought Google Calendar was pretty cool too. We already have a public calendar for the district and for each school, but in order to add anything we always have to contact the tech. dept. Wouldn't it be nice to be trusted to add important dates on our own??? We are educated aren't we?
Shelly
Amanda, I also played around with Google calendar. I love it! I think you had terrific ideas for use with your students. There's something about using computers that motivates kids, so using this in place of, or in addition to the assignment notebook would work well. You could post tests and project due dates up front for kids and parents.
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