I continue to be amazed by the incredible advantages! I have used my Google calendar once in my life and feel silly I havent taken it more serious! I watched a video on how to create a lesson plan on your Google calendar. WOWWWW! There is not a single reason you should'nt use this! You can create and name calenders by subject area or whatever you chose! Did I mention they are color coordinated?? Once you have created and named a calendar, you are able to specify the date, (did I mention this can be adjusted to continue on your calendar if it is a multiple day lesson?) description, and even add your appropriate Google docs that go with that lesson for the day. In addition, you can share this with other teachers, perhaps you are coordinating a lesson between subject areas. So once you've created ALL the calendars your heart desires you can look at the big picture and see all your color coordinated planned events all in one, very organized, place!
Next, I checked out iGoogle which is an application I had never heard of (I am on my Google account updating emails and chatting a good portion of the day). Immediately, I liked the feeds on the page. I changed the weather setting to Knoxville, for some reason it was on Nashville. There was a great map of East Tennessee and surrounding areas forecasts. There was a link to check up on the world time. Not sure how useful that is but nonetheless.. I also liked the Groupon link from the main page because I only ever remind myself to check out the deals when I see the same ad on Facebook. Bravo for adding that sponsor! There is a news link which happens to be set on CNN and I made sure that was also another setting I could change. Fox News and Knoxnews are my things.
Overall, I continue to be amazed by Google features and am excited about getting more organized with my Google calendar!
Umm.... Look at Add Stuff. You can take the stuff that is there off and put on different stuff you like better. You even can add a page that will have a tab on the side.
ReplyDeleteGlad that you are exploring more and that you took a look at the lesson planning on the Calendar. :-)