“How could your life change – really change, if you could radically improve your ability to learn?” – YoYoBrain
The creators of Match.com and SpectraVision are at it again. This time they need your help. They’ve created a new Web site called YoYoBrain, an interactive Web site that offers students the opportunity to make and share flashcards with classmates. If the site does not have the subject you’re looking for, you can easily add the notes yourself.
In less than two weeks the Web site is going public, and SMU is the first campus in the country to see it.
Will Bunker, the co-founder of Match.com, teamed up with Dan Owen, the former president of SpectraVision (which introduced pay-per-view movies in hotel rooms) and co-founder of HO2, to try to revolutionize the way people learn information. But this isn’t their first time working with SMU.
“We worked with the SMU entrepreneurship program last year in Simon Mac’s business plan class,” Bunker said.
The creators want to work with SMU again. The Web site is also offering only SMU students the chance to win $500. The person who enters the most quality flashcards will receive $500. The number of students using YoYoBrain is growing everyday.
“I believe it can lower your study time by half or more,” Bunker said.
Senior Rachael Dunlap has made 221 flashcards and provided feedback on the Web site. She says the Web site has helped her with her studies.
“I am taking developmental psychology as my last perspective this semester and I have senioritis really bad, so focusing on that class is difficult,” Dunlap said. “With YoYoBrain, I can go online whenever and make cards, and it saves them for the future.”
Dunlap feels the Web site helps when it comes to taking general education courses or classes with multiple-choice exams.
“It seems the site is improving each time I visit it. I think once it is done, it will be a really helpful, really user-friendly site,” Dunlap said.
Another SMU senior, Elizabeth Barnwell, works for the growing Web site. She’s been working with the Web site since the beginning of fall and believes in what the site promotes – improving the way people learn. She says she wants to help share that with fellow students.
“YoYoBrain has the potential to vastly improve the way people learn. At the click of a mouse, you have access to resources previously unavailable, and can potentially absorb this information more successfully and effectively than ever before,” Barnwell said.
The Web site’s initial target is college students. With constant tests and large amounts of information crammed into class notes, the Web site offers a database of information with learning techniques the creators feel make it easier to study.
To check out the Web site go toyoyobrain.com.
