Are you looking for an easy way to keep track of events and share then with others? If so, Google Calendar might be the right tool for you. It is a personal, web based calendar that lets you keep all of your important dates visible on-line and accessible anywhere. This is a great way to share important classroom dates for field trips, tests, project due dates and more. You can also use it to check availability for others to set up a meeting or event or just keep track of your own personal dates. Whether you are communicating with parents, students or co-workers it is convenient and easy to use.
Web-based calendars are great when you work from more then one computer or when you want to share your dates with others. You can get to your calendar quickly and easily no matter what computer you are working on as well as share your calendar with anyone. Some calendars can be hard to share when the other person does not have an account set up or use the same email system.
You can also embed your Google Calendar into your classroom wiki or link it to your blog. That way, everyone can see what important dates are coming up. I have two examples below. The firs is the URL (web address) to my calendar. Once you have a calendar created you can share it with others just by giving them the website. The second is an example of a calendar embedded in a website (a wiki in this case).
Sharing the URL for your calendar:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=tak9nku%40yahoo.com&ctz=America/New_York
Calendar embedded in a website:
http://triciakluener.wikispaces.com/Schedule
There are many other web-based calendar options out there that are also great to use. You can always do a key word search and find more calendars. To learn more about Google Calendar or to set up your own, check out:
www.google.com/calendar
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