Thing #12

The first thing I set up and could really enjoy is the Google Calendar. However, I'm not too excited about making it public but that's what the directions say to do. However, I did just set it up so it just shows when I am busy...not what I am doing. It's nice to have a calendar set up for personal reasons and for me now as a student but will also be useful once I am a teacher. Making the classroom calendar public and accessible to everyone in my class will let them know what is going on when with just a quick glance at the calendar. Students and parents will know of tests and when homework or projects are due. It's also a cool way to share birthdays of other students with everyone in the class. Everyone will know of holidays, field trips, guest speakers, etc. No surprises!

At first I was hesitant on google alerts, but when I looked more into it, it's not so bad. I use to have outlook at some of my previous jobs and while I loved the calendar aspect of it, I found the alerts popping up extremely annoying. However, that's not what this is. You can follow news stories, sports, etc, and have email alerts sent to you. You choose how often you want to updated and what you want to receive updates on. And if it every becomes annoying or you find that you are getting too many alerts, you can manage the alerts or just delete them all together. This will help in the classroom with any current events that my classroom may be following. We can always stay on top of developing news.