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=**Day 7: Google Calendar, Study Skills, and Other Tools**=

Prerequisite Knowledge
1. Basic understanding of entering events into an electronic calendar, notifications, and syncing. 2. Ability to copy and paste html code to embed shared elements on a web page.

Content
Shared Google Calendars can take the daily planner, assignment book, or lesson plan to an entirely new level. Today we will experiment with ways that teachers can use shared Google calendars to communicate with students more effectively. We will also brainstorm strategies for teaching students to organize long term projects or study plans using shared calendars.

As time permits, we will also look at a few of Google's other tools: Google Maps and Google Earth. We will research and devise creative ways they can enhance language arts curricula.

Objectives
By the end of day 7, participants will:

1. Be able to easily create and manage multiple Google Calendars with scheduled events, repeating events, and task slists. 2. Be able to share and merge calendars 3. Be able to embed calendars on a variety of web spaces. 4. Develop strategies for using Google Calendars to teach study skills and organizational skills. 5. Formulate new ideas for student ownership of shared calendars. 6. Understand ways that Google Earth and Google Maps can be used to enhance language arts lessons and projects.

Lesson Activities
1. Brief walk through of Google calendar creation, month, week and day settings, repeating events, and add-ons such as "flair". 2. Participants create a one-month calendar, real or fictitious, listing events and assignments for one of their classes. Calendars are shared with class contact list. 3. Facilitator adds several of the shared calendars to a "master" calendar and demonstrates editing color code settings and switching between month, week, or daily view. 4. Participants practice adding a several of the shared calendars as well and manipulating them. 5. Facilitator demonstrates use of the task list and notification settings to plan for long-term events or projects. 6. Participants role play as students who must plan for events on their collaborative calendars. 7. Group discussion: //How could Google calendar be used to teach a study skills unit as part of the language arts curriculum?// 8. Facilitator demonstrates embedding of master calendar on wiki and iGoogle page. 9. Participants practice embedding calendars on their Google sites from the previous day, making changes, and observing behaviors. 10. Group discussion: How could students and student groups take ownership of shared calendars? (i.e. sports teams and extra-curricular clubs making their own calendars to share, etc.)

11. Participants browse Google Lit Trips website - [] 12. Group discussion: //How can Google Maps or Google Earth be used to enhance language arts instruction?// 13. Participants post on course blogs detailing an idea for using Google Maps/Earth in their language arts classrooms.

Additional resources and materials
Google Lit Trips. (2011). Retrieved November 14, 2011 from []

Evaluation
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