iCal requires OS 10.2.3 or newer. The district has a license for OS 10.4

iCal is a personal calendar application. iCal lets you keep track of your appointments and events with multiple calendars featuring views of upcoming activities by day, week or month.
iCal lets you create separate color-coded calendars for your home, school and work schedules, and it lets you view all your different calendars at the same time from within a single unified window.

Publishing and Subscribing to Calendars
Publishing calendars on the Internet requires a .Mac membership or access to a WebDAV server. You can choose to publish one or more of your color-coded calendars, but on the web they are all one color. As an iCal user, you can subscribe to calendars posted on the Internet and there are tons of published calendars. In doing this each time someone updates their posted calendar, the changes are updated on your calendar file locally.

Calendars can also be subscribed to, created, and published using Sunbird from Mozilla (MacOSX, Windows, Linux). this would be useful for Admin to be able to post calendars for teachers. This open source software is a bit clunkier.

EUSD handouts:
iCal Basics | Publishing iCal on .Mac | Publishing iCal on iCalX |
Subscribing with iCal (movie) | Subscribing with Sunbird .3 | More Handouts

For example, here are a couple of calendars that the district and schools have started creating:

EUSD Calendars posted using iCal -
If you use iCal (or Sunbird), you can subscribe to a calendar. Subscribing w/ Sunbird is a little different (see directions above).

CHANGES FOR 2007-2008

The calendars have a new home. They have been moved from .Mac accounts to the district Calendar Server which can be accessed from this webpage. Not all of the calendars are listed there yet - we will keep adding.

NOTE: if you previously subscribed to a calendar posted on .Mac, it will not be updated. You need to delete that subscription and get the new ones at the page above.

Another great use is as scheduler - teachers at Central school email Mr. B to make changes to their weekly lab schedule. All teachers can see the schedule on the web. Another example of that is with Farr's Master Calendar (above) - teachers who are trying to book time have the calendar on their desktop and email the secretary for appointments. Mrs. C has a monthly calendar that is published from her .Mac account - parents can subscribe and know what's going on! Mr. L also has a Class Projects/Events calendar. Another example of sharing calendars: Iowa State University

Here are calendars from iCalShare w/th possible school value - email me with suggestions.

• American Politics and Government
• Astronomy Events (perhaps too extensive)
• Earth Seasons
• Holidays - loads of options
• Moon Phases
• Mathematician Birthday Calendar
• MLB
• NFL
• San Diego Chargers
• San Diego Gulls
• San Diego Macintosh Users
• San Diego Padres
• Weather - very cool, though the zips don't always match - experiment a bit - try 92029 if you live in Escondido.

Other Links

• Mac 101 - Lesson 10: iCal
• Apple - iCal
• Apple - iCal - Library - Shared Calendars
• iCalShare - Share Your Calendars! - find tons of shared calendars to subscribe to
• iCalShare Links - tons of other mini apps and services to check out
• iCal World - Calendar Hosting and Library - shared calendars
• iCal Exchange - (free, but w/ ads) a webDAV server to post public or private calendars | Sample Calendar
• Dashboard Widget for iCal - iCal Events (free) - shows upcoming events from multiple calendars
• MenuClockCalendar (free version)- displays a pop-down calendar on your menu bar, complete w/ Events & ToDos - only problem is that it displays calendars currently unchecked.
• iGroupCal (free) - allows users to share their calendars though a single shared calendar.
• ALI (Apple Learning Exchange) Events Calendar

Macromedia Tutorial - Adding an inserted webpage using iframe. You can adapt this to display an iCal calendar or iCalX calendar in your website. Example below. Another example.