CEP 452 Final Project

Google Calendar.

For this project, I was searching for technology that would allow students and teachers to communicate about assignments and projects in an organized manner. When I was in high school, busy with school, sports, and friends, I had a difficult time keeping track of due dates and assignments. Through this project, I found something that would have helped me greatly throughout my own high school years; Google Calendar.

Google calendar is an online tool that allows its users to fill in a digital calendar with personal events. The general format of calendar can be changed to view events by day, week, month, 4 days, or agenda. This calendar has several benefits over a paper planner. Google Calendar can be viewed anywhere internet is available, and it can be edited endlessly. It is possible to set reminders and alarms so that you do not forget important information or events. Just about everything you can do on a portable planner, you can also do with this online calendar.

The most intriguing and useful aspect to this calendar is the fact that you can share it! A teacher could set up a calendar for the semester or school year with assignments, due dates, lessons, activities, subjects, etc. included so that the students can organize their time effectively and when the plans change (as they inevitably will) this calendar can be immediately updated. It is also possible for students to make changes to the calendar (depending on the settings that the teacher has used). This means that students can share interesting events with the class, in addition to organizing their own time with a personal calendar.

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