Thing #6

I found this fantastic tool online called Remember the Milk. It was a free subscription and was extremely easy to join. This is an online task manager that can keep track of appointments, notes, grocery lists, events, or whatever your little heart desires. Remember the Milk was initiated in 2004, and  it launched to the public in 2005. Today there are over 3.7 million users. The program has an upgrade called “Pro” that users can download for $25 a year. It links to Android, iPhone, and Blackberry. It will also sync to your Microsoft Outlook.

I love that you can invite people to join. There is a place to link a group, which would be extremely handy for individual classrooms, especially if you wanted to send out a reminder. Parents could even be a part of the group. The tasks are divided into three categories: personal, study, and work. You can see what is due today and tomorrow; you can also see what is overdue.

I will use this in my classroom to remind students about important assignments and tests. I will also use it as a reminder to myself in a scenario for student make-up work. Students will never be able to pull the wool over my eyes again by telling me I gave them a whole week rather than three days to make-up missed assignments. How about those apples????  You can even attach notes under individual tasks. You really have to check this bad boy out…I will never look at a cow the same way again.