Icebreakers

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Icebreakers

• Loosen up participants
• Acclimates to environment
• Prepares for content
• If possible, integrate with subject

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Icebreakers How-to

• Prepare beforehand
• Ideas
• Adapt existing icebreakers
• Adapt a game (see later)
• Integrate your topic if possible
• Pictionary, Hangman words

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Where are you?
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Favorite Vacation Spots
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BoGgLe
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Effective PowerPointing

• Outline only
• Use colors
• Use pictures
• Of yourself
• Google image search
• Pre-plant activities

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Learning Games

• Keep interest
• Reinforce using different learning mode

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Learning Games How-to

• Identify goals
• Adapt to presentation environment
• Prepare beforehand
• Use assistant(s) if necessary

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Learning Games Examples

• (from simple to complex)
• Pictionary
• Hangman (or PC variant thereof)
• Hollywood Square (Tic Tac Toe)
• Jeopardy!

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Pictionary
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Hangman
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r s t u v w x y z
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Hollywood Squares
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Jeopardy!