Interactive response systems
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Mr.Rcollins
photo credit: swpermanAs we investigate ways to use mobile Internet devices in our classrooms, it hit me that they could be used as an interactive student response system (ISRS). Since current ISRSs are around $100 per person, why not invest in a more useful device such as the iPod Touch, Sony PSP, or Nintendo DS (with Opera)?
I found one company that already is thinking this way, Pocket Mobility with their Quizzler Pro product. Me on the other hand, loves the challenge of coding something up myself.
Has anyone worked with ISRSs? What did you like? What didn’t you like? Is this something I should look at as a summer project? 
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I’ve experimented with iQuiz Maker for the iPod - works on the Nano as well (http://www.iquizmaker.com/). But I like the idea of the iPod Touch so that you could do stuff in real time via a wireless network.
I haven’t tried it yet with my iPod Touch but I bet you could get a real simple system set up with the new survey functionality built into google docs. Obviously with some real knowledge and some time you could build something more functional, but for people with limited programming skills that could work on the fly.
If the rumors are true that apple will eventually be releasing a sub $200 wifi enabled ipod this could become fairly widespread.
Using Google Docs is also a very good idea. I’ve played around a little bit with the survey functionality, I’ll have to see how well it works on my iPod Touch.