Weekly Post - Google Docs & Calendar

I fell in love with Google today. Okay, maybe I was already in love, but now even more so. In class we're learning about the many wonderful things Google provides. This week we learned about Google Calendar and Documents, which are both fantastic and so incredibly useful!

I'm excited about Google Calendar because I'm a calendar person–I live and breathe by my calendar. I use iCal, which is Apple's version of a calendar. Google Calendar and iCal are alike in many ways, but the great thing about Google Calendar as that you can share it with people over the internet. How convenient!

If I end up working for a program I can see myself using Google Docs to collaborate with the other teachers in the class to create newsletters or handouts for the parents. I can also see using Calendar to keep the parents up to date on the activities going on in our classroom. If I had my own preschool I would use Google Calendar for the same reason. This way the parents could look at the calendar and see when they would like to come and volunteer or if they had something to help out with the theme going on that week.

Because I want to teach preschool, I don't see it affecting my students as much as their parents. I think the students will benefit from the convenient communication between their parents and me. Hopefully, when I have my own preschool, the parents will really want to be involved and volunteer and Calendar would be a great way to communicate what is going on in the classroom.

Having access to these two great programs will allow me to be more organized and have better communication between school and home. These tools will be very beneficial to me whether I teach in a program or have a preschool of my own.

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I definitely agree with this video–only you can make your life happen. If you want something work for it; not everything is going to be handed to you, in fact, very few things are. It is your choice what you do with the situations your given. Like the saying goes "life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it," or however it goes. Life is only what you make it.