I chose the Google calendar tool for my project this week. I chose this tool because I wanted to be able to create a visual calendar of school events that I could share with my students and their families. The monthly layout of the calendar helps families to see important dates of assignments and events that are occurring during the upcoming month. I would like to learn how to share this calendar with my families so that they would be able to have an electronic calendar of classroom events. Since I have several families that don't have a computer with internet access I also like that there is a print feature that I can use so that I can keep those families informed as well. I ran into a problem however in that the amount of space allowed for me to enter info was limited for some items and I had to modify the text to fit in the date space. Also, I couldn't get info to repeat multiple times within the month without having to enter it each week (library every Tuesday).

I liked that the tool was fairly easy to use although what I have used it for seems pretty simplistic. I'd be interested in learning other ways to use the calendar tool that are specifically applicable to early elementary teachers.

 OETS 6D Use technology as a tool to access, research, manage, integrate, and communicate ideas and information. 
2B. Effectively communicate and publish to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.