I hate this time of year - between testing, end-of-year cleanup, and just the general sense of apathy we get from students and staff it just seems to be such a chore to do anything. Include Blog Entries as well... :-)

Anyway, one item that I found that makes life a little easier is a FREE Online Registration system for your school events. Enter Eventbrite Online Event Registration Service. This service allows you to post your event at their site. Provided the event is FREE, it costs you absolutely nothing to use this site for your online registration. Eventbrite provides full reports (in csv format nonetheless) and will event help you print name badges the day of the event.

Should you decide to charge for your event, Eventbrite can help you collect money for tickets via PayPal, credit cards, etc. Eventbrite charges only 2.5% of the ticket price for this service.

Every summer my school does a Freshman Camp to help to ease parents and students into High School. Last year we started using this to help figure out how many parents & students to plan for. This service really helped and it was so simple an Assistant Principal could do it - really!! I set up our account initially and the two of us played with settings and options, but, he's taken over this year.

If you have a need for something like this, give Eventbrite a try - it's worth the time for me... ;-)

For an example of our own Freshman Camp see http://freshmencamp2009.eventbrite.com/.