Texting Gossip-Telephone
_Objective:
To practice and examine communication via texting.
Procedures:
To practice and examine communication via texting.
Procedures:
- Prior
to the activity, choose a phrase (with fewer than 300 characters) that
has meaning to your group and translate it for text messaging (for help,
visit http://transl8it.com/). Make sure that all participants have one another’s cell phone numbers stored in their own phone’s memory.
- After
arranging the group in a circle, text your message to the first person
(it helps to have the message already loaded into your phone). The
person who receives the text then whispers the message to the next
person in the circle. That person must then text the message to the next person, who whispers it to the next person, who then, in turn, whispers it. Continue in this fashion
until the last person receives the message via either text or whisper.
The last person then verbally shares the message with the entire group.
- Example:
- Fear stops you in your tracks. Self confidence propels you forward to Fear stops U n yor tracks. Self confidNc propels U 4ward.
- Messages can also be sent from the computer via http://www.txtdrop.com/
- Discuss problems with messages that texted.