Description
Introductions and icebreakers are very popular activates but they are also dreaded by participants (and leaders). I recently read a blog, Icebreakers that Rock (www.cultofpedagogy.com), which explains what is wrong with most icebreakers and gives three examples of icebreakers that don’t have the “cheese” factor that tends to make us cringe. Icebreakers can be effective tools to create a sense of team or community in a group. But most icebreakers require some type of physical interaction (e.g., grouping, lines, circles, physical characteristics). How do we make these activities correlate to the online classroom (or meeting)? What’s missing from the online course experience that is present in the face-to-face experience?
Date
8-10-2017
Document Type
Blog Post
This post is also available at
https://www.franklin.edu/institute/blog/why-should-you-use-introductions-activity-every-course
Recommended Citation
Wehmeyer, E. (2017). Why Should You Use an Introductions Activity in Every Course?. Retrieved from https://fuse.franklin.edu/i4blog/43