I made this presentation for a professional development I gave in my district on using Google Calendar a few weeks ago. It's more of a how to, but presents some ideas for use throughout a district or just within a particular school or classroom. Some of the obvious ideas are holiday/event calendars and emergency delay/cancellation information.
I would love to see Google to see Google Calendar used for administrative observation cycles and academic coaching cycles. I've seen it used for managing a digital lesson-book, but only in a classroom by classroom basis. To see it done across a district would be pretty astounding. The efficiency that could be gained by not having to submit lesson plans, either via hard-copy or email, could be great. The observer could access context for the lesson, by navigating throughout a lesson calendar. Parents could also access the context of the unit when providing homework help.
