Group 12: "Online Calendars"

 

 

    1. Working together using this wiki
    2. Group members
    3. Online Resources
    4. Acrostic
    5. The Big Question
    6. Enter Your Findings

 

Working together using this wiki

 

Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Your entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text.

 

Group members

  • Jan
  • Jack
  • Jill

 

 

Online Resources

 

  1. The web's best online calendars from Wired magazine
  2. Another list of online calendars from Otavo

 

Spend some time looking at the website above. Click on the links to various resources and explore!

 

Make it work for YOU: Sign up for one of the calendar sites try it out as a tool to communicate with parents and students next year.

 

 

Acrostic

Collaborate with others

Access from anywhere

Log in with password

Easy to use

Not limited to dates- can add feeds

Drag and drop

Available to distributed audience

Resource

Secure

 

The Big Question

 

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of online calendars?

 Available to anyone to find dates can go to one site and  get them

Can access it from anywhere

Secure on web server

Log in with password

Free

No need to move data between  computers

Works across platforms

Use Ajax powered interfaces- behaves like desktop application

Drag and Drop capability on some

May have privacy concerns

You are dependent on the provider for backups and availability

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter Your Findings

 

 


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