Google Calendar, Diigo, oh my!

I love Google Calendar!  I have wanted to learn about Google calendar for the longest time but never took the time to learn it until now!  Once again YouTube played a role in my learning of Google Calendar.  This video goes through Google calendar step by step making it easy to follow!  I love that Google Calendar allows the user to pick if they want to make the calendar a public web page or send it to specific people.




Another feature that Google Calendar offers the users is they can create multiple calendars.  This feature would be great for us educators.  Educators can create a calendar for each subject/ class; by generating a Google Calendar and sharing it with students, students are able to stay up to date on upcoming events, tests, assignments and announcements. Teacher can post the calendar to the school website so parents know what is going on in classroom at all times!

This week I also discovered social bookmarking.  I always thought by adding a website to my "favorites" was the only way to save that page.  Of course it is not the most efficient way because when you get on a different computer and want to access that page under the favorites and it is not there... how frustrating!  Have no fear Diigo is here!  Diigo is a lifesaver for those who like to add sites to their favorites but Diigo can be accessed from any computer as long as the user is signed in!  Diigo is another great organizational tool for educators as well as for students; Diigo users can add sticky notes, highlight or tag specific information needed.  Using Diigo in a school setting would be beneficial for students especially for those times when students are working on projects at school and need to complete it at home, students can just log into Diigo and vuala they are able to continue where they left off! Diigo is a great resource for educators because they are able to join groups, share websites and collaborate with other teachers!  Diijo is another fabulous way for educators to stay organized!
So many great learnings this week!  Until next time my friends!