Online Calendars in the Classroom
There are many benefits to using online calendars as a part of classroom management. These calendars will be useful to me as a teacher, my future students, other members of the school community including other teachers, family members, etc.
As a teacher, I can quickly and easily add things to my google calendars. I can set up different calendars for different classes, along with personal, and other calendars. This can also help me communicate with students and parents about what assignments are due, what is happening in class, and what special events or birthdays are coming up. The principal can subscribe to my class calendar and then know what days would be good to visit.
I remember in elementary school getting calendars all of the time. There was a lunch menu calendar, a class calendar, a school calendar, a district calendar, and more. Using online calendars, such as google calendar, can make these all available online, and easy to organize in one customizable place.
Using Bookmarks in the Classroom
The internet is an amazing resource for classrooms and students, but it can be overwhelming. Not knowing where to go or how to consume the internet poses lots of potential problems from viewing inappropriate materials, to simply not learning anything from the experience. As a teacher I can use a social bookmarking site, such as del.icio.us, to organize the internet for myself and for my students. Having all of the useful sites I use in one place is what makes this appealing, but what could make it extrememly effective is the tagging and bundling features. I could tag things by a date I want students to visit the site, with unit names, as homework, and endless other ways to make them easily accessible to students and parents.
View my bookmarks.
