Future Me

Futureme.org is a website where students can go to send themselves an email in the future.  IN THE FUTURE?  Yes, that’s right!  I think this would be great for helping students to set goals and then monitor themselves along the way to make sure they are staying on track with their goals.  I can see a teacher having them do this at the beginning of the school year.  Have each student set a few goals and then on the last day of school go back and check to see how they did on those goals.  The teacher won’t have to remember to do this because futureme.org will automatically send the email to the student on the date that was designated in the original email (this could be at the end of the semester, a year, two years, etc…).  If they aren’t on track, this may just give them the “wake up call”  they need to get headed back in the right direction.  It can also be used from year to year by the students as they move on.  On a personal note I think it’s neat that I can email myself something that I won’t receive for a couple of years, and I can look back and see where I was and how far I have come.