Google mail/Google Calendar and Lists

While looking at the Atomic Learning Site for Google Mail I learned several new tasks that I had never discovered before as a Gmail user. The first task I learned how to use is the vacation responder.
On your gmail home page you can go to settings and click on vacation responder. From there you can select the date, subject, and message. For the dates selected, your account will send this message to anyone who contacts you. Another he helpful tool is selecting a picture for your profile for your contacts to see when they receive emails from you. You can also import contacts from other email servers. Once you Import them, you can merge those contacts with your gmail contacts so as not to duplicate any contacts on your list.

For google calendar and tasks, I chose three different tasks that I thought would be most useful in the education world. The first is sending invites to contacts to events scheduled on your calendar. You can also set up reminders to yourself via email or text for events scheduled in your calendar so you don't forget what you have planned. Creating to-do lists is an age-old system for getting things done. Instead of using up paper, you can now create a to-do list on google calendar. Once you have completed an item on the list you can cross it out or delete it. You can even print out your list if you prefer a hard copy. These easy-to-use tasks are very beneficial in managing assignments and parent/teacher conferences and even making lists for class experiments or field trips.