Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a necessity to stay organized. Any meeting I set up with a coworker, I create a Google Calendar event and invite them. I no longer forget about important dates (like testing windows) or show up to meetings where others forgot to show up. Within Google Calendar, you can set up multiple different calendars. This week I created a Google Calendar for the track and field team. I inputted all of our meets and then shared the calendar with my fellow coaches. By sharing the calendar and allowing others editing abilities, we are all able to add our work out schedules so that if an event coach is absent one day we know what to have our athletes work on.
Another feature I started experimenting with is creating my lesson plans in Google Calendar. The advantage of using Google Calendar for lesson plans is that they are electronic and easy to access next year. The other math teachers who share my prep can also add contributions to my lessons. Check out this article for more info.
Google Photos
Google Photos is awesome! As I started investigating Google Photos I realized that it would be a good option for backing up pictures I take on my phone. Currently I use iCloud, but Google Photos seemed more user friendly and I was able to set up an option to automatically back up my pictures whenever I was using wifi. For the first time I was able to back up my pictures without a headache as well as retrieve my pictures on multiple different devices. Now all of this sounds awesome, but it gets better. I realized that I could back up all of the pictures I had downloaded on my laptop (back when digital cameras were "the thing") and not have to worry about my dying laptop taking my pictures to the grave with it. I now have access to all of pictures I have ever taken on any device.
Another cool feature of Google Photos is the ease of sharing photos with others. I started thinking about when I would use this feature at school. I remembered my grad school cohort wanted to share pictures of our classrooms with one another back in the fall. By creating a shareable photo album, we could have easily shared pictures with another and gotten inspirations for a our classrooms. (If you want to check out my classroom photo album, click here.) Other ideas I have seen from teachers who use Google Photos is sharing pictures of student projects and students conducting experiments. Students also start building a class identity when they have pictures to share with others.
Another cool feature of Google Photos is the ease of sharing photos with others. I started thinking about when I would use this feature at school. I remembered my grad school cohort wanted to share pictures of our classrooms with one another back in the fall. By creating a shareable photo album, we could have easily shared pictures with another and gotten inspirations for a our classrooms. (If you want to check out my classroom photo album, click here.) Other ideas I have seen from teachers who use Google Photos is sharing pictures of student projects and students conducting experiments. Students also start building a class identity when they have pictures to share with others.
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