I’ve been using Memiary for a few weeks now, after seeing the iPhone app featured in the Apple’s App Store. It’s a really simple application / site with a simple concept… you simply answer the question ‘what did you do today?’
Every day, you are given the chance to record a maximum of five things that you achieved that day. I’ve been using it on a personal level to make a note of things I’ve achieved at home / at work / with my websites. However, a tweet from @alove this morning made me realise that this could also be useful in the classroom.
The children could update a class account throughout the day, or at the end of the school day, making notes about:
- things that they have learned that day (great self-evaluation!),
- any challenges that had been overcome (and how they overcame them),
- special memories of the day (fantastic for looking back over the year’s achievements).
These memories are recorded with the site and you can then look back through them as time goes by. It’s a great way of showing the wide range of things (and the huge quantity of things) that are achieved on a daily basis… a lot of which may otherwise go unnoticed. It could also be a good way of sharing achievements with the wider world, you can access the ‘memiaries’ via RSS / iCal links, so parents and pupils could review their memories / achievements away from school.
Of course, you don’t necessarily need to use Memiary to do something like this… it would also be possible with a class blog. However, the site has such a simple interface, it is incredibly quick and easy to update your memories.
Try it out – if you use it in the classroom, I’d love to hear your experiences.
Image credit - Memiary for iPhone
