Day One: "Getting to know each other"
It's getting round to that time of year again: the start of the new school year and thinking about what you are going to go on the first day of class. Here's a really simple activity a collegue (Kim?) on a course once showed me...Draw a rough star on the board (example, right) and for each point of the star, include a name, a date, etc. that is important to you personally (so that, for example, Toni and Isabel are the names of my own children), label your diagram "Me" and tell your class all of the things on the board are special to you for one reason or another.
What your learners then have to do is, quite simply, ask you questions to which those are the answers. Once they've got them (and learnt quite a bit about you in the process), you should have them each draw their own diagram, which they should share with at least one partner.
It's simple, it's easy, it breaks the ice, it gets people to know each other...
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posted by Tom at 1:46 PM
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Nice! (Only, what's it got to do with technology?). Un beso, K.
True, Kate -- nothing to do with technology ,-) !
But let's put it this way: it's the first day, I want something to break the ice, to get to know each other.
Can I do that better with or without technology?
I think this is a good activity (I know it is, having used it before!) and I can do it just as well without technology.
When that's the case, forget technology, I'd say....
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