Friday, March 30, 2007

Google calendar and learning



Timetable in the calendar

Populate with curriculum and homework assignments

Manage, invite and remind

What to do?



Anonymous said...

Hi Donald,

Yes - it makes total sense. John Pederson took another approach, using Google Docs to support curriculum planning.

You can see why Google are pushing their "educators" programme:

I'm just a little anxious about putting semi-critical data on a free service that has no accountability to me... Yes, happy to use it for stuff that isn't so important, or for trying out ideas, but if it gets to a point where I'd be stuck without my data I'd want some sort of legal contract.

Anonymous said...

Yes, I would agree, why not develop a open source solution for students to use, this would mean that critical/private data would be availiable to the student for no cost, however not avaliable to the 'google' community, perhaps some thought about open source communities would be prevailiant?

Anonymous said...

Agreed, privacy is an issue for individual information, but what about community calendars for groups?

I too am hesitant about not wholly owning my own information, yet there is a benefit to merging some public calendars. For example, I have an open calendar with "Elearning Events" that merges much of the trade show and conference information.

Folks seem to find value in it, as long as it doesn't become uselessly cluttered, overly biased or commercialized.

Anonymous said...

Oops, URL reference for the Elearning Events Calendar got cut-off in the previous comment, here is an equivalent TinyURL-