Google Calendar: An Easy Tool for Streamlining Organization in the Art Room

This week I want to talk a little about the possibilities that Google Calendar offers to art teachers.  Recently I worked with a fellow art teacher who shared how she uses Google Slides to document all the steps of an art project. She shares the Slides with students as an easy reference to go back and examine what was covered in class that day. I will talk more in depth at another time about Google Slides, but basically, everything that she ever needed from demonstration videos to handouts was all organized in a Google slide presentation that covered the scope of a month-long project.  Within the one slide show she broke the project down day by day.

A really cool and easy way to share this information with the students would be to use Google Calander and link right to the day you are covering.  I have attached a sample to this blog, which you can see by scrolling to the bottom of the page.  If you click on today's date, let's say February 8th, 2019, for example, it will pop up a bubble that looks like this:

If you click on the Portrait and Pattern Day 6 Assignment, I have linked it to the Google Slide day that students need to look at.  When I select it, it opens to day 6 of this project: 

What a great way for students to work at their own pace, or to access the day's information from home if perhaps, they were sick. Not to mention, if parents would like to be up-to-date with what is going on in class they too can easily access the calendar and everything is right there for them.

In middle school and high school, this is such an easy way to save project demonstrations and make them easy to access for all parties involved!

Feel free to scroll down to the bottom of the page an try the calendar and it's linked Portrait and Pattern Project out!

Artfully yours,

Jenny