There are numerous academic applications for calendars. For the teacher, a calendar can serve many purposes from organizing individual appointments and timelines to long-term goals and academic projects. For the student, the calendar is an organizational tool. By filling in assignments and due dates on the calendar, the student can keep track of academic progress and avoid falling behind on
. projects and long-term homework assignments.At many levels, calendars are provided at a cost. There are many office supply stores "" such as Office Max, Office Depot and Staples "" which provide various sizes and degrees of fanciness and which are priced accordingly. While these are very nice and serve the purpose for which they might be purchased adequately, it is possible to find these sorts of resources freely online as well as creating them within various common computer applications.First and foremost, blank calendars can be printed out from Microsoft's Outlook email program. These calendars can be as detailed as a single day broken into hours or as general as full months. These calendars are free as long as the program is pre-loaded into the system. Similarly, anyone with a Google-based application account like a Gmail email account has access to the Google Calendar application. Calendars similar to those of Outlook can be created and printed and this is totally free.Other sources of free calendars are plentiful and replete. Vertex 42, found at http://www.vertex42.com, offers free calendars for the current and subsequent year in portable document format (PDF). These free calendars require Adobe Reader, a free PDF reader, for viewing and printing. CalendarLabs, hosted on http://www.calendarlabs.com, also provides free printable calendars. They advertise that any year from 1800 to 3000 can be printed and can include holidays from a multitude of countries.For whatever the academic purpose and degree of specificity required in terms of hours versus days, there is a free, online calendar available to download and print.More reference links: http://www.vertex42.com/calendars/ http://www.google.com/calendar
