Design Games
Overview:
Design games were basically a series of games which allowed the class to get to know one another and get in the mind set of the class. Activities ranged from name ball, to telephone, to what is it? Descriptions of the activities can be found at the above link.
My Experience:
This set of activities helped enormously in getting to know my class mates and preparing us all to work effectively on group projects. It helped eliminate any nervousness which typically is prevalent in college courses and really gave us all a good idea of what the class would be like. What I was most impressed by with this set of activities was how easily everyone was able to just do such crazy random things without really thinking about it, either showing good planning on the activities or just that we had all been driven crazy by having fluid mechanics right before this class. At the end of the activity we were in groups of five and performed skits based on products we had created in the “what is it” game, preparing us for future presentations in front of the class.