Students Can Use SMS to Check & Post to Their Google Calendar

While the lucky ones who have smartphones can use their quick mobile Internet connections to check up on their Google Calendar or other web-based organizers, the rest of us (yes I am in this group!) cannot! However, if you use Google Calendar, you can use text messaging to post and read your calendar events. Here is a link to the all the information on how to do this with Google. It is very simple:

To text a new event
Send a new Text Message to:
48368

In Message:
Homework for social studies is to read chapter 3 and write essay on the American frontier due tomorrow at 2:00pm

Google Calendar will put all the information in the correct date and time!!

To read your events via text
Send a new Text Message to:
48368

In Message:

• 'next': request your next scheduled event
• 'day: request all of your scheduled events for the present day
• 'nday': request your events scheduled for the following day

**Right now you can only do this within a 24 hr window.

This would be a nice way to help students' organize by either having them create their own calender (at the secondary school level) or a class calendar (at the elementary level) where they can take turns sending and receiving assignments (and parents could join in too!).