For this thing I explored converting files and using Google calendar. I was already very familiar with concerting files and I knew why this is an important thing to know about. At the beginning of this past school year I started sending out monthly newsletters. With the first letter I sent out I found out why you need to know how to convert your documents into other formats. I had the newest version of Word for Mac, so when I sent out my fabulous newsletter no one was able to read it. I first began to convert the letter into an older version of word, but I still had parents unable to read the document. I then began to convert it into a pdf file as well. So by the end of the year I was sending out my letter in two different formats plus publishing it to the website to make sure it was available to all of my parents. You never know what your parents are going to have access to, so you need to have a lot of options.
I did all of the conversions above right in Word, so when I tried Zamzar I saw even more possibilities! This was a very easy tool to use and it had more formats to convert to. I uploaded my band handbook and I was able to convert it to html, pdf, txt, png, jpg, or mp3 just to name a few. I feel this will definitely accommodate all of my parents!
The last tool we looked at was Google calendar. I was also familiar with this tool because my school district does everything in Google Docs. I think that there are so many benefits from being able to share a school calendar with students, parents and other staff. As a band director we schedule a lot of after school events that need to be shared. This makes it very easy to update everyone that you have shared your calendar with and you can embed it into your website! Great tool!
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