Most of the tips and tricks we’ve gone over here so far have been specifically for online teaching and learning. Today’s tip is a wonderful tip for online teachers, and it’s also a great tip for busy professionals of all kinds! The desktop background you have right now is probably pretty and stylish, but your desktop background can be functional too! If you are using XP, you can use a google calendar as your background, which will keep you mindful of your deadlines as well as your timeline. Using this tutorial can help development teams stay on task. One question -does anyone know how to use this method to link multiple Google calendars so that if, say, the English IV team has a calendar, there is an NCVPS calendar, and then you also have a personal and a professional calendar, all 4 can be on your desktop? I’ll put some thought to it and see if I can come up with a part II to this tutorial.
Enjoy,
Shu
May 19th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Please comment if you know how to connect multiple calendars to the one on the desktop!
-shu
May 20th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Let’s say I have the URLs from two different calendars:
Wake County Traditional Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=4gpofrnv5isiv73eij80o9i2rs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
Wake County Track 4 Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=1lr2b6j7t4nqgod5a1520sg9sg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
I want these two in one link. The important part of the url is the stuff starting with “src”. I’ll chop the important bits off that second link:
src=1lr2b6j7t4nqgod5a1520sg9sg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
Now I slap an & to the front of it
&src=1lr2b6j7t4nqgod5a1520sg9sg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
Now I tack it onto the end of the first link:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=4gpofrnv5isiv73eij80o9i2rs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York&src=1lr2b6j7t4nqgod5a1520sg9sg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
That’s it. That’s the link for both calendars at once. Woo hoo!
May 20th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Adrian,
You are the friggin’ man! Thanks. Will this work for stringing together a series of 3 or more calendars? Do you know a way to do it in Vista?
Shu
May 21st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Shu, Sharp “Shu Tutorials”. I hope to study your suggestions more and put to efficient use. Time, so much more of it is in demand! Thanks for generously sharing of your discoveries and mastery of web 2.0/3.0/4.0 tools. ~Connie ^J^
May 21st, 2009 at 12:48 am
You make the “Time-saver” for distributing progress reports look so simple. I’m sure it’s time consuming start-up, but as you stated in your voice tutorial, it’s a time saver and effective communication tool making the setup time all worthwhile. So, where do I register for Shu101? ^J^
May 21st, 2009 at 7:35 am
LOL, I’m so glad you are enjoying the tutorials, Connie. Just RSS feed the blog, and you’ll have signed up for Shu101, no sweat. Is there anything else you think I should cover? I’m working on evernote.com, at my friend Adrian’s suggestion. He works with SAS, and he’s awesome!
Shu