Google+Calendars

Calendar
Google calendar is a fully featured calendaring app. You can share this calendar with stakeholders in a project so people all know what you are planning to do, and when things are due. Students and parents can see upcoming assignments and deadlines. Teachers can see upcoming professional development opportunities. With the appointments feature, individuals can schedule time with you when you know you will be available. You can setup a standard "Tech Hotline" time where teachers and students can come and ask you for help.

Calendars
Since there are some complexities to using the Calendar App, here is a tutorial on using Google Calendars. Creating a calendar for personal use is one thing, it's always a good idea to know where you are going and when. Creating a calendar for business, on the other hand, is completely different. You want to be able to share events of importance and keep people aware of when you are available for meetings.

Google calendars added a new appointments feature, that allows others to schedule appointments with you during your available time, taking some of the confusion out of scheduling meetings during busy times of the year. (Parent meetings and course registration are two good examples.)

One good use of Google Calendars is to display school-wide events. This allows parents, teachers and students to quickly and easily see what is coming up in the life of the school. Since you can collaborate on Calendars, the burden of posting school-wide events can be shared among various individuals. Groups can share their calendars separately, so members can get an idea of what is happening that only affects them (Marching band my not care when the Football team is having practice, for example).

Here is a school-wide example:

Example I

Below you will find a tutorial for getting started with Google calendars.

Google Calendars