Google+Calendar

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">It is free.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Quite simple to use as Google takes you through step-by-step procedures to set-up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Collaborate with others on the calendar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Publish, share or keep the calendar or part of it private.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Add calendar to iPhone.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Add content or other schedules to enhance your calendar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">It can be color-coded.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Get automatically reminders from calendars via e-mail or text messages.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Print out a copy of the calendar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Text message Calendar, and it will message back with all of events for the next 24 hours.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Create new events from cell phone.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Set up separate calendars.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Upgrade: offline support for Gmail
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Accepted at most schools (not usually filtered).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Promotes organization and collaboration.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Multiple viewing possibilities (day, week, month, etc.) to get an idea of what is coming up.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Information stays put after the date has passed, allowing you to move forward and backward through time
 * Can also allow students to see what assignments are due in the upcoming weeks
 * Specific times can be included for events
 * Sync with desktop applications (such as iCal)
 * ** Add events and invitations effortlessly, share with friends and family (or keep things to yourself), and search across the web for events you might enjoy. **
 * ** The ‘Comments’ section can be used for quick-and-easy lesson evaluation and notes. **
 * ==== You can combine multiple calendars ====
 * ==== "Snooze" feature allows you to be reminded again ====
 * ====Helps you sync with your managing system whether it is in the computer or in the smartphone- it is on-the-go calendar for you.====
 * You can link your calendar with someone else's (ie spouse, children) to help with planning events

Can become overwhelming with events and hard to rea
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Weaknesses **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Require a Google account and email address
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Google Calendar only allows for read-only access while you are offline
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Not particularly appropriate for young students (older graphics, complex organization, etc).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Young students may need supervision or assistance in actually using this.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">If students input information, they could accidentally erase other dates/times that are already posted
 * Calendar can cause security and safety issues, especially for young inexpierenced users.
 * Need Internet access
 * Google is blocked by many school district filters.
 * The Google Calendar interface doesn’t accept HTML syntax. **
 * Too many messages from the calendar to the mobile device sometimes could be considered hassle.

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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Opportunities **
 * Promotes a strong home/school connection.
 * Students may be required to become more responsible if they are expected to keep up with classroom and/or their own personal calendars.
 * Allows students in higher grade levels to prepare for the kind of scheduling that they will run into at the college/university level.
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 * ** Teachers have the ability to keep a separate Google Calendar for student assignments and due date’s public, while creating their planning one in private. **
 * ** Teachers could use the Google Calendar for Team meetings! Team leaders could insert information for the team such as field trips, special programs or other classe activites. Google Calendar can remind the team of these upcoming events. **

· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">[|A Word of Caution About Google Calendar] (Caution on deciding to make calendar or part of public) [|Before importing events...] · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Put all the student assignments and other events on the calendar. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Invite students to put their events, birthday, for example in the calendar. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Send automatic text message about upcoming tests and other important classroom events to students and parents. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Communicate with parent ==== Our school had several calendars that both teachers and parents could tap into. In one, we used it to book a common room. In another, we used it to keep track of testing so that our students did not have multiple comprehensive tests on the same day. ====
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Threats **
 * If you lose your network connection, you will lose everything on your Calendar. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Ideas for Use in the Classroom **
 * Teachers can model responsibility by modeling the appropriate use of the calendar.
 * Have all the teacher and administrators use the google calendar for scheduling staff meetings and sharing school events. (M. Fernandez, 2/15/09)
 * Use Google calendar to keep parents informed about special events going on in school. You might be able to print the calendar out for the parents wo do not have a computer. (M. Fernandez, 2/15/09)
 * Allow one student at the beginning of every week to add to the calendar and modify what is being taught that week in the class
 * Create a list of tasks for the month so the students know what will be done and feel accomplished when they check items off the list
 * ====Students and teachers may use Google Calendar for scheduling, homework and notifications. Groups can add their calendars together to see when time is available. ====
 * Eleven reasons why schools should use Google Calendar - Blog
 * Create a calendar to make students aware of sporting events to increase school spirit and also in a math class you can make an extra credit project where students research a statistic involved in the sport they went to go see and write a short explanation and example of the statistic.
 * Create a calendar that shows when any relevant programming will air on TV that pertains to the subject and allow students to write responses for extra credit.
 * Send "invitations" to students/parents email accounts to extra help review sessions and also to make them aware of upcoming tests.

[|How One School Used Google Calendar] - can be used by school music organizations to update students and parents about rehearsal schedules, performances.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Examples of Uses in the Classroom **

Google Calendar - Stephanie K.

I have used Google Calendar in conjunction with a class, although it is free and relatively easy to use, I often saw that my classmates and myself would have a hard time making sure to post to the "right" calendar. One of the great things about this website is you can have different calendars with certain users for each. For example, in my class we had a calendar that we could all access at home and post to. This allowed us to sign of for observation time with our advisor, without going through the hassle of back and forth emails. The drawback I saw was that a classmate would post their timeslot only to find out a week later that they posted to the wrong calendar and by the time they realized their mistake someone else had already filled in thier time slot. I agree that this tool is great, but I advise teachers from using with too young of students. I can see this being a great tool for parent communication but the drawback being everyone needs access to the internet in order to participate.


 * Can be used for classroom assignments - teachers can upload homework assignments and classroom events so that parents can easily go online and check information.
 * Can be used for school faculty. Principals can make their schedule public and allow teachers and parents to make appointments. Teachers can easily view meetings and observations by date and time.