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http://www.signupgenius.com/

Details

Sign Up Genius is a website that allows people to create sign ups and then invite people to use them. There are a variety of sign up templates to use, from parent teacher conferences to organizing a classroom party. Once the sign up has been created and people have been invited to sign up they simply pick what works best for them and the site does the rest of the work as far as sending out emails and creating final printable reports for the person who created the sign up.  

Educational Uses

As a teacher I would use Sign Up Genius to organize parent teachers conferences and classroom parties. It would be extremely easy to have parents use this and choose their time for conferences. That way it would be first come first serve and once a time is chosen it is no longer an option. That would be extremely handy rather than sending home papers and having parents pick their top three and then the teacher having to organize all of the times and sending out other papers to inform parents of their times. I would even use this site to organize my classroom parent volunteers allowing them to pick times to come in and help when they are free and wouldlike to. Since Sign Up Genius is a tool for teachers to use to make their lives more simple when organizing different things there are no content standards or assessments to be associated with it.         

Value/Merit

Sign Up Genius is completely FREE and very easy to use. It is all done online so no one has to worry about losing papers or having duplicates. Sign Up Genius will even send a reminder to whoever signed up a day or two in advance. Overall, there are a lot of ways this site could be used especially in a school or classroom setting to make not only the lives of  teachers easier but the people signing up as well.