Google Calendar

I'm surprised I hadn't blogged about this when it happened.  I was able to teach a Google Calendar class to our faculty when we split into the different google apps.  I was a little unsure at first that I wouldn't have enough knowledge to be able to answer questions or show people everything they needed to know about Google Calendar.

However, it was really empowering to be able to share my knowledge with others.  I also found out that I knew way more about the calendar than I had actually thought.  I think that just my enthusiasm about calendar helped others see how cool (and helpful) it really is.  I use it for absolutely everything!!

Everyone that came to my session was sharing calendars and trying and practicing things.  I know that Katie Garvet and Shona Koetteritz were excited about being able to share information about each kids.

The last thing that really came from this was not only people increasing their use of google calendar (i've seen it a bunch), but also our discovery of the app iCalendar.  It's an app for your smartphone that links your google calendars, plus then you can add things to it personally as well.  It is the most amazingly useful app I've found so far in terms of calendar use.  The only downside is that if I add an event to my calendar from my phone it doesn't add it on my calendar when I'm on my computer.  In that way it's kind of one sided.  However, honestly I use google calendar on my computer for all my school business (which is not linked to my phone), so it hasn't been that big of an issue so far.