Calendar is User Friendly

I've used Google Calendar before, but I now feel much more comfortable with it after the course. I appreciate that the calendar is user friendly. Having various ways to make and edit an event make the system simple for anyone to use. I personally like the option of repeating events, because I can mark the times I'm busy teaching and put those times on repeat Monday-Friday.


I also found that my guided reading groups from Google Classroom transferred automatically to Google Calendar, which was exciting. In this, I can use the calendar to plan which days and times I will meet with my groups to stay organized.


In the future, I would like to have my students use Google Calendar to see when homework assignments are due and plan for their own lives. I'm still wondering what other tools I can play with to enhance my Google experience.

Transition thoughts

I will need to play with the calendar to make it work for me.  I am wondering if there is an easy way to migrate my Outlook calendars over to Google.

First of all, I really liked the Cloud Academy idea.  I learned a lot about calendar and I appreciated being able to do this at my own pace.  I just completed the Cloud Academy: Calendars and GMail Course and I'm excited to explore calendars more.  I know it will be helpful to use once the district moves everyone to google in December.  I can imagine my team using it to help schedule meetings together, as well as being useful for district meetings.


As far as using calendars with my students I'm still not sure how I would use this in my classroom.  I know I would use this to help me be more efficient with my time and to schedule events with other adults, but I think with 3rd graders using a calendar (beyond some basic calendar skills) really isn't the best use of instructional time.