Sandy

If you think Jott is cool (and if you don't, you probably just want to stop reading now), combine Jott with Sandy, and now you've got a system!

I don't think there's necessarily a direct teaching application for Sandy & Jott together. However, I think this could be something worth recommending to a student who seems to have trouble keeping it together, especially if he or she is missing deadlines.

Sandy is an online personal assistant program. If you pair Sandy with Jott, then you can call Sandy with the things you need reminding of, and then Sandy will remind you of them through the method of your choice: e-mail or text message. Sandy takes a little while to figure out, but it looks like it could be worth it if you -- or your students -- struggle with a way to be reminded of the myriad of things going on in life (at any given time, I have 35-40 law students in a writing-intensive course, plus two elementary-aged children of my own, and then all of the general faculty and life stuff -- I'm drowning in deadlines and to-dos, so I'll take any help I can get!).