As part of my Google Apps for Education class I've been learning about Google Calendar and all that you are able to do with it. It's quite timely particularly because we will be required to use it for all of our classes this coming school year at MCPS.
One of the features that I love about the Google Apps in general is that they are made so you can very easily share your work with others, while also keeping everything in one place. For example, I created a Google Calendar for my French 1 class, which I then embedded on my French 1 website and in my French 1 Moodle. If I change something on the calendar it will automatically be updated whether a student or parent is looking at the French 1 website or the French 1 Moodle (or any other place that I happen to embed it for that matter).
I usually put the topic of the day, the homework, and due dates on a calendar on a whiteboard in my room anyway, but this way I can put all of the same information on my Google calendar so students and parents can keep updated on what's going on. Plus, there will be a permanent record of what we did last week and the weeks before that. I just don't have enough whiteboard space for all of that!
Another feature that I wasn't aware of before is that you can attach files from your Google Drive to any events that you create. For example, if the topic of the day is the numbers 0-20 I can easily attach a Google Presentation or video to the event that I created called "Topic: #0-20". I can also create an event entitled "Homework: #0-20, Due: Next Class" and attach the actual homework to the event for download or printing.
The beauty of it all is that as long as the file is in my Google Drive I can always edit the original file and I won't have to worry about uploading the newest version. It will already be updated. Plus, it gets rid of the headache of wondering which version was the new version and which was the old version. Love it!
If you would like to see an example, here is my French 1 Google Calendar:
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