[MACEP] Scheduling Tools

[mhochberg at comcast.net]

Hi, Tim!

The poor quality printed calendar was another reason that they disliked the Google Calendar. It was much better than our previous online calendar but it still left much to be desired.  

With the online version, unless you were logged into the Google account, all you could see in each time slot was "busy." That's not much help when you are trying to figure out who you can swap with. 

Google did have an option to sync with iCal so I've been playing with the idea of having iCal auto open and sync when a teacher starts their laptop. I worked on it a bit last spring but have not touched it since then  there were some problems with the syncing. When I reuploaded my calendar, it duplicated all events, not just the changes.

---Mary
"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."   Mary Catherine Bateson

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tim Chase <edtech2020 at gmail.com>
> 
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:00 PM, macep-request at macep.net wrote:
> 
> > We have a computer lab, library, and five mobile labs that we would  
> > like to schedule online.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > ---Mary
> 
> 
> Mary and Jim and Others,
> I'd like to see a calendaring tool that is really working for  
> somebody, and now I want to give Google Calendars another look.  But I  
> have to confess that my teachers really, really like signing up to use  
> the labs and the library on paper.  They complain that when they tried  
> an online system before, it was hard to use and sometimes their  
> reservation vaporized and created havoc when two teachers came at the  
> same time to use the equipment.
> So now we have the red cart and a red calendar, a blue cart and a blue  
> calendar, and so on.  I want to be as forward thinking as the next  
> chap, but it might be that paper is still the way to go for some things.
> 
> ~Tim
> 
> "If God stopped believing in atheists, would they therefore not exist?"
> 
> __________________
> 
> Tim Chase
> Technology / Reading
> La Pine Middle School
> Bend La Pine School District
> <edtech2020 at gmail.com>
> 
> 


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