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Google Calendar

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7 Reasons to Use Google Calendar

 

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Google Calendar Help

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Google Calendar Educational Uses

 

"Google Calendar is an easy way for teachers, administrators and students to share time-related info like team schedules, assignment deadlines and school holidays. Anyone who needs to view a calendar can use it from any Internet-connected computer and access it on existing school web pages or within their own Google Calendar account.  Changes made by a calendar organizer are automatically seen by anyone who checks, which makes outdated versions a thing of the past.

 

You can:

  • set up separate calendars for each of your classes and share each one with a designated group of students,  parents or the entire community. 
  • use Google Calendar to share info about class topics and descriptions for each session; assignment deadlines; test and quiz dates; and field trips and other activities.
  • use calendars to schedule shared resources like Computers on Wheels, classroom sets of iPods or iPads, district vehicles, etc.
  • use calendars to organize your schedules with other teachers and administrators.
  • administrators can use calendars to keep students and families updated about holidays, parent-teacher conference dates and other school-wide events.

 

Between classes, assignments, team schedules, and personal appointments, it's tough for students to keep track of everything that's going on in their lives. Google Calendar can help, and it's easy, because teachers, coaches, and other group organizers are in charge of keeping almost everything up to date. Students just need to sign up for the calendars that they want to see, and the events on those calendars will automatically show up and get updated when plans change.

 

Sports teams, clubs and other groups can use Google Calendar to keep students, teachers and parents current with their group schedule. Groups with more than one leader (for example, a coach and two captains) can easily designate multiple "owners" to keep the calendar updated."

 

Notifications

You can set up reminders in Google calendar for yourself, either as a pop-up (on your computer as you're working,) as a SMS (text message to your cell phone) or as an email. By default, you cannot set up multiple people to be reminded by SMS or pop-ups. A "workaround" for this problem is to use a group email address that has been set up in advance, or, you could send the email reminder to yourself and then, using filtering rules, automatically forward the email to others.

 

 

Calendar Appointment Slots

"Google has rolled out appointment slots, a useful new feature for Google Calendar that allows users to publish available appointment times on a publicly available calendar that other users can then book. For example, a manager could use appointment slots to indicate available times for meetings with team members.

 

Appointment slots are shown on a booking page, which you can embed on a website or share with colleagues or clients. People visiting that page will then have their own personal calendar overlaid over the available appointment slots and can click to book a time; a shared calendar e

event is then created for both users." (from WebWorker Daily)

 

View this WebWorker Daily screencast By Simon Mackie on How to use Google Calendar appointment slots

 

The Scheduling 101: Appointment Slots in Google Calendar Blog post by Heather M. Whitney discusses differences between using Google Calendar appt. slots and other tools that are available. It is a very helpful comparison.

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