Doing More than Polling with Student Cell Phones

I’ve written about what can be done with the kids’ cell phones here.  I was turned on to this site by my school’s technology integration specialist.

www.wiffiti.com (a terrible name that combines wifi and graffiti…i think) is a website that allows anyone to send a text message with some text to their number and have it displayed on the screen. Our class is studying projectile motion, so I had students text in examples from their experience outside of the class (outside hobbies, sports etc). Their examples were visualized in real time as the students text’ed them in. Here’s the results:

I intend to incorporate the students’ interests as they’ve texted them in into examples I use in class. This will help the students buy into the new topic.