District using 'e-communications' to keep school community up-to-date on school happenings & events

Google Calendar now available

(August 18, 2011) Voorheesville Central School District has launched Google Calendar, one of several new communications initiatives for the upcoming school year, to keep parents and the community up-to-date on school events and happenings. Also in the works is an e-newsletter and a district Facebook page.

By replacing the print calendar with the online calendar, not only will the district be able to provide the school community with the most current and accurate way to keep track of district and school meetings, events and other important dates, it will help the district save on printing and postages costs in this tight economy.

"Feedback from our communications survey suggested we could use more ways to communicate about our schools," said Superintendent Dr. Teresa T. Snyder. "We are excited to be able to offer multiple ways to better inform the school community of the latest news and upcoming events within their schools."

The calendar presents events by color code for each school and the district. It also provides interactive features allowing users to choose from a drop-down menu of events to select the specific calendars they wish to view.

In addition, Google Calendar is integrated into Gmail and interoperable with popular calendar applications, and can be used on the go with smart phones.

We look forward to announcing the Facebook page and launching the e-newsletter in the near future.

Access the Google Calendar.