I have been playing more and more with the suite of Google tools. I basically converted our family calendar(s) into Google. I am liking that I can have several calendars for different parts of my life, keep them separate, share them with other people in my family, and overlap them as needed. For example, I can have my school district calendar, and my work meetings showing on Google in work, and I can see my daughters sports schedule, and the UCONN basketball schedule at a mouse click, to check on scheduling afterschool stuff. Now my wife, who cares not one whit about my school schedule can pull up my daughters schedule in her classroom when she needs to schedule a meeting. We can pull all of those calendars on top of each other for a master family calendar. Now I know that was possible with lots of previous technology, but this seems easy, it is web based so we all can get at it quickly (like my college daughter away at school) and it is private and limited to just our family.

In school, I will try this week to web post with these tools. What we want is an easy web enabled school calendar for the office to post school events. We also need a couple of more private calendars. One is for staff items (both work and fun, like a committee meetings and a holiday parties, or afterschool get together at a local watering spot). Another is for arranging kid type meetings like PPT’s and case management meetings. Often people need to see these overlapped on each other, and multiple people need the ability to adjust the calendar in real time. I think that this may be able to do it.