Quotes About Icebreakers

A friend dispensed some unsolicited dating advice the other night, telling me that if I'm on a first date, I probably shouldn't lead with a rant about how Russia has a monopoly on nuclear-powered icebreakers.

Salmon (2002), in her book E-tivities, provides examples of online icebreakers. Our favorite examples include a "Quiz of all the class members." Figure 6.4 An online icebreaker (adapted from Salmon, 2002) In this icebreaker, the teacher asks all the students to post some information about themselves.

We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.