Monday, April 26, 2010

Emerging Technologies 3

MonkeyOn!

MonkeyOn is basically a reminder for reminding others to do things for you!
"Create a monkey for each task you want to delegate to some one else. We'll send that person email reminders about that task, and email you a reminder when the deadline for the task has expired."

Click here!

To get started: Its free!! Yay!! Click the "get started" button on the opening page. This should lead you to a page asking for your: email, name, time zone, and password. (I think it's pretty cool asking for the time zone :] ) Click sign up! Once you do that, it'll send you an email address to confirm that it's your email address. After that you have your very own monkeys to send to people!

Teachers could use this site to remind students of homework that's due or even to remind them of big projects. Teachers could also benefit from MonkeyOn to remind parents or fellow teachers of things, whether it be meetings or parities. This site could be very helpful!

I picked this site because it seemed very practical in the work place and at home. I could use this to remind friends of events or import events. I enjoyed the "feel" of the site. Usually, teachers have to use super-professional teaching websites, but this one has a sarcastic monkey as their mascot!
They even add "lucky you" on my page because I don't have any "monkeys on my back" yet. I just think it's a real cool atmosphere for a site that a teacher can use.

To see a sample email click here!


Its super easy to use! I suggest that you should make your own monkey page to at least see how sarcastic it is! And if you ever receive a monkey yourself..... there is a button where you can kill the monkey. :]