In an effort to bring the classrooms of Commerce ISD to the present, I have assembled a list of 10 icebreakers that use technology and fit with 21st century students. Maybe even our Administrators can use some of these icebreakers with their faculty and staff!
- Have students create a Pinterest board with 10 pins that summarizes them.
- Ask students to create a 30 second video clip that introduces themselves to their peers. Then allow students to present them or play them on separate devices as an audio gallery. Here are some very easy and simple to use
tools for this purpose :
- Create a classroom blog and ask each student to write a blog post introducing themselves to the rest of the classroom.
- Have students create a quick comic strip to describe themselves or to recreate a recent funny moment in their lives.
- Use Poll Everywhere to ask students interesting questions and get to know them as a class, like their favorite subjects, bands or TV shows.
- Use Google Forms or Survey Monkey to survey students about their interests, academic inclinations, and background info – a 21st century alternative to the “Getting to Know You” info sheet! Have students create word clouds to describe themselves and share with the rest of the class.
- Have students go on a QR code scavenger hunt in teams to learn about your classroom rules in a fun, engaging way. Students can also use free QR code generators to produce a QR code that
others have to read to know them. They can create QR codes and print
them then scatter them in class then each one randomly picks a code and
scan it to see who it is about. Here are a few tools for this:
- Ask students to create their own avatars that introduce themselves to the class. Encourage them to be creative with the backgrounds, characters and details of the avatar to reflect their own personalities and preferences. Here are some tools to do
this :
- Have students create mashup videos of themselves with Weavly to introduce their interests to the class.
