Tech Tips for the week of October 5 - Google Calendar

Teachers are a busy lot, who often find themselves trying to keep track of the many commitments they have in their professional, extra-curricular, and personal lives. This week's tech tip highlights a tool to help teachers, or anyone else, manage their complex schedules, Google Calendar.



The links below direct you to a series of video tutorials which examine some of the basic - and not so basic - features of Google Calendar. Here are some of the features examined:

• Setting up an account to use Google Calendar
• Adding events
• Adding recurring events
• Setting up multiple calendars (personal, professional, extra-curricular, ...)
• Working with Google Calendar in different views
• Sharing calendars with others
• Embedding calendars within web sites
  

Video Tutorials:

• Creating a Gmail Account
• Google Calendar - Tutorial 1 - Basics
• Google Calendar - Tutorial 2 - Views
• Google Calendar - Tutorial 3 - Sharing Calendars
  

Links to these and other Google Applications tutorials can also be found on Student Moodle (Chinook Online Classrooms).

If you are interested in more help with Google Calendar, feel free to contact your Elearning Catalyst Teacher to set up an appointment.

Until next week ...