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As you've probably noticed, words related to "" are listed above. Hopefully the generated list of term related words above suit your needs.

P.S. There are some problems that I'm aware of, but can't currently fix (because they are out of the scope of this project). The main one is that individual words can have many different senses (meanings), so when you search for a word like mean, the engine doesn't know which definition you're referring to ("bullies are mean" vs. "what do you mean?", etc.), so consider that your search query for words like term may be a bit ambiguous to the engine in that sense, and the related terms that are returned may reflect this. You might also be wondering: What type of word is ~term~ ?

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Related Words runs on several different algorithms which compete to get their results higher in the list. One such algorithm uses word embedding to convert words into many dimensional vectors which represent their meanings. The vectors of the words in your query are compared to a huge database of of pre-computed vectors to find similar words. Another algorithm crawls through Concept Net to find words which have some meaningful relationship with your query. These algorithms, and several more, are what allows Related Words to give you... related words - rather than just direct synonyms.

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Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used to bring you this list of themed words: @Planeshifter, @HubSpot, Concept Net, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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Icebreakers, Energizers, Warm-Ups, and Closers

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We've all been there - the start of a virtual or hybrid meeting where there's an awkward silence. But this can be a thing of the past when you introduce the humble icebreaker to get people talking and loosen them up.

Our list of 35 different virtual icebreakers and team-building activities for 2023 have all been tried, tested, and enjoyed by team Slido - even by the introverts among us.

We'll enlighten you first on what exactly a virtual icebreaker is, and why it's good to have one on hand for your next meeting.

What are virtual icebreakers?

Virtual icebreakers are small interactive activities that are used to lighten the mood, typically at the start of a meeting.

They are great conversation starters - they help energize people, drive lively discussions, and encourage the participants to be more active throughout the meeting.

With online and hybrid meetings, virtual icebreakers can help make your video conference call more personal and allow your colleagues to get to know each other better and enjoy some social time.

From quick icebreaker questions to longer ice-breaking games - pick your favorite ones!

1. Quick virtual icebreaker questions

These are great rapid-fire questions to energize your participants and kick-start a conversation.
Read also: List of 200 Icebreaker Questions For Meetings and Tips On How to Use Them
#1. Mood barometer: How are you feeling today?

The classic "So, how are you folks doing?" usually gets you only a couple of reluctant answers. Ask your team how they are in a different way this time - try it with a poll.

For example, check the overall energy in the room by running a rating poll such as: "On a scale of 1-7, how are you feeling today?" Or, "What's your energy level today?"

Everyone can contribute and so you'll take an instant pulse check on how everyone is feeling before the meeting.
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Use the poll results as a discussion starter: "I can see that not everyone is feeling at their best. Does anyone want to share their thoughts?"

#2. Would you rather...?

A would you rather virtual icebreaker question is guaranteed to spark a lively discussion at the start of your meeting.

Simply ask your participants a thought-provoking 'this or that' poll question with two options to choose from. Then, drive a discussion around how people voted and why.

Here are some of our favorite would you rather questions:

Would you live in the Arctic or in the Sahara Desert?

Would you rather be always overdressed or underdressed?

Have 2 meter long legs or 2 meter long arms?

Time travel back to the past or to the future?

Read also: 101 Would You Rather Questions to Cheer Up Your Meetings

#3. Quiz question of the day

Or, why don't you start with a little guessing game? Everyone loves quizzes and so a little brain teaser at the beginning of your meeting will perk your colleagues up.

This is an ideal virtual icebreaker for recurring meetings. If you and your team meet regularly, you can turn this into a tradition and run one quiz question at the start of every one of your meetings.

How to pull this off?

Simply create a quiz poll question in Slido and mark one option as correct. You can use our integrations with Google Slides and PowerPoint to insert the poll directly into your slides.

What's more, you don't even have to think up quiz questions. Our 'magic cube' random question generator will do that for you.

#4. Where are you joining from?

If your teammates are scattered around the world, kick off your meeting by sending a virtual hi to each one of them.

At the beginning of your conference call, run a word cloud with the question: "Where are you joining from?"

This is one of the best virtual icebreakers for large meetings or virtual events - the more locations, the better the word cloud will look.

As your colleagues post their locations, give them a special shout-out.

You'll even be able to see if participants are still typing or not with Slido's typing indicator feature when you're in present mode - so that everyone gets their chance to participate before you move on.

Read also: 35+ Word Cloud Examples for Your Meetings and Events

#5. In one word, how would you describe...?

You can also use word clouds to pick up your team's thoughts and feelings. Open your meeting with a question such as: "In one word, how would you describe the past week/month?"

This is one of the virtual icebreakers that will help you take a pulse check of the overall atmosphere in the team and detect possible downturns - especially handy in a virtual setup.

Or, you can even try something different like: "If you were to describe our company in one word, what would it be?"

#6. Good old times

If you need a guaranteed conversation starter, try a question that brings back childhood or teenage years memories - they provide an inexhaustible source of amusement.

You can use word clouds here as well.

Which was your favorite candy you were hoping to get when trick-or-treating? (A perfect icebreaker to use before Halloween.)

Which music band was your favorite growing up?

After people submit their answers, ask volunteers to share how they voted and why.

There will be a lot to talk about, maybe even some arguments about which candy or which movie is the best. You'll start a meeting with some laughs and get your colleagues in a good mood before a meeting.

#7. Rank your favorites

Similar to the previous virtual icebreaker, you can engage people in ranking their favorite things, whether from their childhood or not - the possibilities are endless.

Use a ranking poll question, add as many options as you wish, and let your participants rank them.

Here are some ideas:

Rank these 90s movies from your most favorite to your least favorite.

Rank these Christmas movies from a must-watch to the most passable one.

Rank these Harry Potter movies from the best to your least favorite.

After your participants are done voting, display the chart with the winners and the runner-ups. Expect a lively discussion - people tend to passionately root for their darlings!

#8. Say it with an emoji

Here's another way to get a sense of how your team members are feeling - let them express it with emojis. For example, at the start of your meeting, ask your colleagues:

"Which emoji best describes your current state of mind?"

You can use a Slido word cloud for that, but instead of words, your participants will submit an emoji. This works best with larger meetings and events when a large number of emojis gets submitted.

Here are some other ideas for emoji icebreakers:

Describe our team with an emoji.

Use an emoji to describe your ideal vacation.

Which emoji do you use most frequently?

This is an ideal virtual icebreaker if you're looking for a simple activity that anyone can participate in, for example, as you're waiting for others to join the meeting.

Read also: 80+ Best Poll Questions To Ask Your Online Audience

2. Short virtual icebreaker activities

These are great if you want to surprise your participants with a fun little activity and enjoy some bonding time.

#9. Draw your mood

Instead of verbally asking your colleagues how they are at the start of your meeting (which often results in a half-baked 'fine', or 'okay' here and there), ask them to draw how they are. It's much more fun and you'll spark creativity among your colleagues.

During our recent Brand Team meeting, our colleague, Sabine, shared a Zoom Whiteboard with us and asked us to draw our current mood on it. So we channeled our inner Basquiat and came up with something that remotely resembles art. But it was so much fun, we swear!

Note: Are you running your meetings in a hybrid setup? Then make sure that each of your on-site team members joins the video conference from their own device so they can participate in the activity.

#10. Highlight of the month

Here's a great way to lift people's spirits. Crowdsource your colleagues' personal or professional highlights from the last week or month.

Thanks to this virtual icebreaker, you can see what other people have been up to and have experienced, and you can celebrate some of your top moments.

As you kick off your meeting, ask your teammates to post their highlights in an open text poll. Then, display the highlights on the screen, and give a shout-out to each one.

It's good to remind people of all the remarkable work that they've done. For example, in our Slido marketing team, we share highlights as part of our monthly all-marketing meeting.

#11. Unsung heroes

This is not only an icebreaker but a morale booster as well. And we all need that now and then, especially when working in isolation.

Give kudos to the heroes in your team. Kick off your meeting with a word cloud poll such as: "Who was your silent hero this month?"

Acknowledging people for the effort they're putting in is a wonderful way to start a meeting. Expect lots of hearty "awws".

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Combine the word cloud with an open text poll, so that people can also leave a heart-warming message for their nominated silent hero.

#12. What are you thankful for?

This ice-breaking activity is ideal, for instance, before Thanksgiving or as a morale booster during special team meetings.

Ask people to submit what they are grateful for or who from the team they would like to thank.

You may open your meeting with this question, either via word cloud or an open text poll, and wait for your team members' submissions.

Then, display people's submissions on the screen and ask your colleagues to share what they put in and why.

It's a nice bonding moment and helps you start the meeting on a positive note.

#13. Team photo

A list of virtual icebreakers wouldn't be complete without a group photo! This one's as much fun through a video chat as much as it is in real life. And you can repeat it time and time again by taking a different picture each time - make funny faces, bring in your pets, do a crazy gesture, be creative.

Take inspiration from our Customer Care Team!

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These photos also make nice content for your social media, internal newsletters, or Slack channels!

#14. Guess whose desk?

Get to know your colleagues a little better, and take a sneak-peek into their home work stations. This virtual icebreaker is a mixture of 'Guess who?' and a house tour.

Collect pictures from your colleagues of their desks at home and add them into Slido multiple choice polls with a question: "Can you guess whose desk this is?" and give several options.

Then, once at a meeting, let your colleagues guess away!

#15. Weekend photo contest

A slow start after the weekend? Run a quick weekend photo contest to get your teammates talking. Tell them to share a cool photo from their weekend - for example in a Slack channel.

You can then put people's names in a Slido multiple choice poll and have your colleagues vote for the best shot!

#16. What's the last picture that you took?

Similar to the previous virtual icebreaker, this one is probably even more fun: Ask your colleagues to go to their phones, and dig out the last photo that they took. Ask them to either post it to your Slack channel or simply show it to the camera. Then, ask them to share a story behind the picture (if it's not a secret!).

It's a sweet little activity to make people talk and get to know one another better.

#17. Random question of the week

Here's another one from the 'Get to know your colleagues better' virtual icebreakers. Set up a new tradition and ask your team one random question each week or month.

For example:

What's the most useless thing you have in your home?

What would your superpower be if you had one?

What one thing should everybody stop doing right now?

What's one song or artist that you're embarrassed to admit you like?

We actually started doing this as a weekly activity in our #random Slack channel. We've since learned so many cool new things about one another!

3. Virtual icebreaker games & Team building activities

These are great get-to-know-you games and longer team-building activities that will both entertain and bring the team closer together.

#18. Home scavenger hunt

Get your colleagues out of their chairs. This virtual icebreaker is fun and you'll all get a chance to move around a little. Give your teammates a little task such as: "You have 25 seconds to fetch something yellow," or "Get the weirdest thing in your apartment, then bring it back to show us".

You can even take it a little further and play a full-scale virtual scavenger hunt. We recently played it in our Brand team and it was so much fun. Our colleague, Nadia, gave us 5 minutes to fulfill 20 tasks such as:

Take a picture of a view from your window and post it to Slack

Find something smaller than your fingernail

Bring the softest thing you own

Change your background to your favorite movie set

Bring an item that's older than you are

And on a hunt we went.

When the time was up, we got back together on the call and shared funny stories behind the objects that we brought. We shared some good laughs together!

#19. Team trivia quiz

Using virtual icebreakers during your meetings also helps you get to know your colleagues better.

Try a fun quiz with questions about your team. Collect interesting facts about each team member, then let other colleagues guess away. We're sure you'll dig out plenty of fun stuff!

We run this type of quiz when we introduce a new team member, or as a holiday fun activity.

Read also: 7 Awesome Quizzes for Your Virtual and Hybrid Meetings

#20. Background challenge

Share some laughs with your teammates on the call. Before your next all-hands or town hall meeting, set a theme and ask your colleagues to pick a virtual background image that, for them, represents it best.

Get creative. Favorite movie scenes, 80's disco, memes, dream vacation places - the possibilities are endless.

Seeing each other's backgrounds will break the ice and give you something to talk about during the first minutes of the call.

But virtual backgrounds do more than just entertain. They're also great for hiding a messy kitchen behind you, or a trespassing family member!

If you need inspiration, visit this huge library of virtual backgrounds by Canva, or get more quirky ones here.

You can also let your colleagues vote for the best background through a Slido poll.

#21. Two truths & one lie

This fun game is great for introducing new colleagues or getting to know each other better. Collect three statements about each of your colleagues - two of them should be true facts and one should be a lie. Tell your colleagues to provide a lie that's not so obvious so as to make it harder for others to guess.

Next, put all of the collected statements into Slido multiple choice polls, or you can make it a live quiz.

💡 Tip
Don't forget to ask the person who the poll is about to share at least one story behind the statements.

#22. Struggle sharing

Sharing is caring - and that should apply to both the good and the bad. Similar to sharing highlights (see point #10), it's important to also give our attention to things that didn't go so well; things that we can learn from, and move forward together.

It makes for a great team bonding experience.

Depending on the setup you're in, divide your colleagues into smaller groups (if you're in an online setup, use breakout rooms) and ask them to discuss their struggles. It can be both professional and personal.

Using an open text poll, encourage your team to share their failure or struggle in Slido as well so that people can see that they're not alone in being imperfect. You can then regroup and open a discussion about lessons that people learned from their failures.

As a leader, don't forget to contribute as well. Showing vulnerability is also a form of strength.

Read also: How Talking About Wins and Struggles Helped Our Team Bond

#23. Show & Tell

Inspired by the classic kindergarten exercise where kids bring an object to school and describe it to their fellow pupils, show and tell is a great activity for getting to know the team better.

Tell your colleagues to bring an object that has special meaning to them or that is tied to an exciting story. Give each group member 3-5 minutes to tell the rest of the group about it.

This virtual icebreaker is ideal for small teams (or done in groups) because people might not be willing to talk in front of larger crowds of people.

💡 Tip
Don't forget to give people enough time to think about their story and prepare for the short presentation. Not everybody is happy with improvising.

#24. Guess who?

This is another great get-to-know-each-other-better game, inspired by our Head of User Research, Neil Sharman.

In one of the meetings, he asked everyone to anonymously submit into Slido three brands they know they 'love a bit more than is logical'.

Then, he displayed people's submissions on the screen and the team guessed who is who just from the three brands. It's fun to identify people, plus everyone gets to share something about themselves. You'll definitely learn a lot of interesting stuff about each other.

💡 Tip
It doesn't necessarily have to be about brands. It can be music, hobbies, movies, etc.

#25. Coffee time

Have you heard of Fika? It's a Swedish word often interpreted as 'a coffee and cake break'.

For Swedes, however, it is much more than that. It's about taking a break from everything for a while and enjoying quality time with friends or colleagues over a cup of coffee or tea.

Take Fika to an online environment. You can call it whatever you like - virtual watercooler talks, virtual happy hour - it's your choice.

But be sure to schedule an informal team catch-up from time to time just to chat with your teammates about something other than work. In remote times, it will help you feel less isolated.

#26. Visual brainstorming

Good productive idea exchanges make for great virtual icebreakers too. Instead of just shouting ideas at each other, try visual brainstorming.

Take advantage of one of the visual collaboration tools such as Mural. We tried it recently during our Brand team meeting and it was an hour well spent - productive, creative, and fun.

We set up a virtual whiteboard, and each of us was supposed to write our ideas on little stickers that we then posted on the board. It nicely simulated a real-life brainstorming session.

#27. Meet up in a virtual bar

If remote work or distributed team setup doesn't allow you to enjoy an after-work beer with your colleagues, why don't you go for a virtual alternative?

In our Brand team, we recently tried Kumospace - an immersive video chat that allows you to 'meet' your colleagues in a virtual bar (or other space), move around, or create smaller chat groups.

Oh, and don't forget to get a drink. The app will even remind you when it's time for a refill!

There are other apps that provide immersive team experiences, for example, Topia. With this one, you can even design your own virtual world. It's good to have a change of scenery, isn't it?

#28. Never Have I Ever

While you're all hanging out together in this virtual bar (see point above), why don't you play a game? If you're familiar with Never Have I Ever, you surely know how much fun it is - especially with more juicy questions. It's simple: Each of you will hold out your hand so everyone can see your fingers.

One of you will read questions such as: "Never have I ever gone skinny dipping." Whenever one of you has done it, he or she will put one finger down.

This icebreaker activity is awesome for getting to know your colleagues better and have a good laugh together while sharing funny stories behind each finger down!

If you need inspiration for Never Have I Ever questions, find 250 of them here.

#29. Donut friends

When was the last time you randomly bumped into someone in a hallway in your office and shared a good chat with them? Or, had a deep conversation about life, the universe, and everything with a bunch of colleagues in a kitchenette or by the watercooler? Before we can enjoy this again, try Donut.

Donut is an app for Slack that randomly pairs two or three colleagues together for a scheduled video call. You can make use of that time however you like: Have a virtual coffee, a peer learning session, or a chat about a book that you recently read.

The best thing is that it gets you together with teammates with whom you wouldn't normally talk or interact on a daily basis. Sounds like a nice way to foster new friendships in the workplace, doesn't it?

#30. Online escape room

Need a full-scale team-building activity? Try a virtual escape room. If you've ever experienced the real thing, you surely know that it's as much fun as it is nerve-wracking! It involves dealing with various challenges, finding codes, and completing puzzles in order to "get out of the room".

It's the ultimate team bonding experience - if your teammates love a good game, they're going to be fans. There are plenty of escape room platforms out there, for example, Escape Live. You can choose from various different session types or themes.

#31. Virtual wine tasting

Even if you're remote, you don't have to give up the good old wine or beer-tasting sessions. Sure, it's a bit harder to pull off in a virtual setting, but not impossible. Just agree on a brand or type - or buy a different wine each, so you can tell each other about the subtle tones you're getting!

Our People team has recently done a wine-tasting call and it was a great team bonding experience.

It lets you enjoy some informal time with your colleagues, which, amid all the meetings is a nice change. Plus, you get to indulge in some fine beverages, what a treat!

#32. Pair & Share

This is a great virtual icebreaker that allows for more intimate conversations among your teammates. If you're familiar with breakout rooms, you'll appreciate this one.

Give your colleagues a thought-provoking question to ponder, then pair them randomly using breakout rooms (check whether your video conferencing tool allows for it).

Next, allow all groups a couple of minutes to discuss the topic before coming back to the main room to share what each pair talked about.

This is a great alternative to the 'turn to your neighbor' kind of exercise - it's interactive, and allows for more in-depth discussion between people. Introverts will appreciate this, as it feels more comfortable to share something in a pair, compared to the whole team.

#33. Online games

Online team-building games are fun and social - they encourage interaction among coworkers and help bring back the camaraderie of a physical office.

The depths of the internet is full of options, but to inspire you, we recently discovered Bored - a suite of Slack games for remote teams. You simply add the tool to your company Slack and play fun games with your colleagues right in the Slack channel.

Apart from the ever-popular game of trivia, Bored has games in which you roast your colleagues, or play a game of accusations and deception. Recently, they launched 'Icebreakers' to help teammates get to know each other better by answering questions that are unconventional and fun.

#34. Name that sound

Looking for a more sophisticated guessing game? How about guessing the sounds? This is one of the most challenging virtual icebreakers, but it's ultimately very satisfying!

It's simple. You turn your cameras off, leaving only audio on, and then you make some sort of a sound close to the mic so that your colleagues are able to hear it, and guess where it comes from.

Here are the instructions:

#35. Group storytelling

Put your improvisation skills to the test. This virtual icebreaker is inspired by my colleague Sabine, who decided that since our team-building trip couldn't happen this year, at least we'll make up a cool story of how it went.

She created a slideshow of random travel pictures, started a story, and then called on one of our teammates to follow up on what she had said, based on what picture was currently up.

We took turns in telling crazy things we did during our imaginary trip and let me tell you, it was some ride!

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You can use your voice to type and edit your document in Google Docs and your speaker notes and captions in Google Slides.

This feature works with the latest versions of:

When you turn on voice typing or captions, your web browser controls the speech-to-text service. It determines how your speech is processed and then sends the text to Google Docs or Google Slides.

Tip: If this feature is not enabled in your organization, it may have been turned off by your administrator.

Step 1: Turn on your microphone

To use voice typing or voice commands, your computer microphone needs to be on and working.

Devices and microphones vary, so check your computer manual for instructions. Microphone settings are typically in the System Preferences on a Mac, or the Control Panel on a PC.

Step 2: Use voice typing

Type with your voice

Start voice typing in a document

1. Check that your microphone works.

2. Open a document in Google Docs with a Chrome browser.

3. Click Tools Voice typing. A microphone box appears.

4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.

5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).

6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Start voice typing in Slides speaker notes

1. Check that your microphone works.

2. Open a presentation in Google Slides with a Chrome browser.

3. Click Tools Voice type speaker notes. The speaker notes open, and a microphone box appears.

4. When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.

5. Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).

6. When you're done, click the microphone again.

Correct mistakes while voice typing

If you make a mistake while you're typing with your voice, you can move your cursor to the mistake and fix it without turning off the microphone.

After you correct the mistake, move the cursor back to where you want to continue.

To see a list of suggestions, right-click words underlined in gray.

Languages that work with voice typing

Voice typing works in these languages and accents:

Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Algeria), Arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Israel), Arabic (Jordan), Arabic (Kuwait), Arabic (Lebanon), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman), Arabic (Palestine), Arabic (Qatar), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ghana), English (India), English (Ireland), English (Kenya), English (New Zealand), English (Nigeria), English (Philippines), English (South Africa), English (Tanzania), English (UK), English (US), Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Malaysian, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Sinhala, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Bolivia), Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Costa Rica), Spanish (Ecuador), Spanish (El Salvador), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (US), Spanish (Guatemala), Spanish (Honduras), Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Nicaragua), Spanish (Panama), Spanish (Paraguay), Spanish (Peru), Spanish (Puerto Rico), Spanish (Uruguay), Spanish (Venezuela), Sundanese, Swahili (Kenya), Swahili (Tanzania), Swedish, Tamil (India), Tamil (Malaysia), Tamil (Singapore), Tamil (Sri Lanka), Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu (India), Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Zulu.

Add punctuation

You can use different phrases to add punctuation to your text. Punctuation might not be available in every language:

Period

Comma

Exclamation point

Question mark

New line

New paragraph

Step 3: Use voice commands

After you start voice typing, you can use commands to edit and format your document. For example, "Select paragraph," "italics," or "Go to the end of the line."

Tips:

Voice commands are available only in English. The account language and document language must both be English.

Voice commands are not available in Slides speaker notes.

Select text

To select text, say these commands:

Select [word or phrase]

Select all

Select all matching text

Select list item

Select list items at current level

Select next character

Select next [number] characters

Select last character

Select last [number] characters

Select line

Select next line

Select next [number] lines

Select last line

Select last [number] lines

Select paragraph

Select next paragraph

Select next [number] paragraphs

Select last paragraph

Select last [number] paragraphs

Select word

Select next word

Select next [number] words

Select last word

Select last [number] words

Deselect

Unselect

Select none

Format your document

To format your document, say these commands:

Text formatting

Apply heading [1-6]

Apply normal text

Apply subtitle

Apply title

Bold

Italicize

Italics

Strikethrough

Subscript

Superscript

Underline

Uppercase

Title case

Lowercase

Text color and highlighting

Text color [color]

Highlight

Highlight [color]

Background color [color]

Remove highlight

Remove background color

Tip: The colors available are: red, red berry, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, cornflower blue, purple, magenta, black, white, and gray. For all colors except black and white, you can add "light" or "dark" along with numbers 1-3 (for gray, 1-4), such as "dark purple 3." If you say "highlight" by itself, the highlighting color is yellow.

Font size

Decrease font size

Increase font size

Font size [6-400]

Make bigger

Make smaller

Paragraph formatting

Decrease indent

Increase indent

Line spacing [1-100]

Line spacing double

Line spacing single

Alignment

Align center

Align justified

Align left

Align right

Center align

Left align

Right align

Columns

Apply 1 column

Apply 2 columns

Apply 3 columns

Column options

Insert column break

Lists

Create bulleted list

Create numbered list

Insert bullet

Insert number

Remove formatting

Clear formatting

Remove formatting

Remove bold

Remove italics

Remove strikethrough

Remove underline

Edit your document

To edit your document, say these commands:

Copy

Cut

Paste

Delete

Delete last word

Delete [word or phrase]

Insert link [then say the URL you want to use]

Copy link

Delete link

Insert table of contents

Delete table of contents

Update table of contents

Insert comment [then say your comment]

Insert bookmark

Insert equation

Insert footer

Insert footnote

Insert header

Insert horizontal line

Insert page break

Tips:

If you say "Delete" by itself, you delete the word before the cursor.

If you select the text of a URL and say "Insert link," the selected text becomes a hyperlink.

Add and edit tables

To add and edit tables, say these commands:

Insert table

Insert table [1-20] rows by [1-20] columns

Insert row

Insert column

Insert new column

Insert new column on the left

Insert new row

Insert new row above

Insert new row below

Delete column

Delete row

Delete table

Remove column

Remove row

Remove table

Exit table

Move around your document

To move around your document, say these commands:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Example:
Go to end of paragraph

Go to

Move to

end of

start of

paragraph

column

line

row

table

document

Go to

Move to

next

previous

character

column

footnote

formatting change

heading

heading [1-6]

image

line

link

list

list item

misspelling

paragraph

row

table

word

page

Go

Move

forward

backward

[number] characters

[number] words

Go

Move

up

down

[number] lines

[number] paragraphs

Scroll

Stop voice typing

To stop voice typing, say "Stop listening."

Resume voice typing

To move the cursor to the end of the paragraph and start voice typing again, say "Resume."

To move the cursor to the end of a particular word or phrase, say "Resume with [word or phrase]."

Here are all the commands you can say to resume voice typing:

Resume

Resume with [word or phrase]

Go to the end of the paragraph

Move to the end of the paragraph

Go to the end of the line

Move to the end of the line

Go to [word]

Commands to open help

To open a list of voice commands in your document, say these commands:

Voice typing help

Voice commands list

See all voice commands

Speak (for accessibility)

To use these commands, turn on screen reader support. It's best to wear headphones so the screen reader feedback isn't typed into your document.

Speak cursor location

Speak from cursor location

Speak selection

Speak selection formatting

Speak table row and column headers

Speak table cell location

Speak table column header

Speak table row header

Troubleshoot

If voice typing isn't working, try these steps.

"We're having trouble hearing you"

If you see an error message that says "We're having trouble hearing you," try the following:

Move to a quiet room.

Plug in an external microphone.

Adjust the input volume on your microphone.

The microphone isn't working

If you can't get the microphone to work on your computer, try the following:

Make sure that the microphone isn't broken.

Check your microphone settings in your computer system preferences.

Check that your microphone is plugged in and is not being used by another application.

Move to a quiet room.

Restart your computer.

Voice commands aren't working

If voice commands aren't working, try the following:

Speak more slowly and clearly

Pause before and after each command. The text of your command might show in the document for a moment. For example, if you say "select all," the words "select all" show up before your text is selected.

The microphone shows a bubble containing the most recent command. Verify that Docs or Slides heard the right command. If not, you can simply say "Undo."

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Virtual ice breakers are a great way of overcoming one of the biggest challenges of managing a remote team - that is the lack of opportunities for team bonding.

It's no longer as simple as walking over to someone's desk for a quick catch up or having an informal chat round the "water cooler." Building rapport, developing lines of communication and simply getting to know your team mates takes effort when you all work from home.

But this can have serious implications. People may become less engaged and motivated over time. You might struggle to encourage creativity and problem-solving. And feelings of loneliness and isolation may increase.

Virtual ice breakers can help you to bring your team together and break down the communication barriers caused by remote working. In this article, we'll explain how virtual ice breakers can benefit your team and look at some examples that you could try out.

What Is a Virtual Ice Breaker?

Simply put, an ice breaker is a game or activity that you can do with the members of your team to get to know each other better and stimulate conversation. Essentially they are designed to "break the ice." You might use one to get to know a new team member, or to kick off a training session or team event.

Virtual ice breakers are exactly the same, but they are done online via a video call or web chat. They can benefit your team in a number of ways. For example, they can:

introduce new recruits to their teammates in a fun and engaging way.

encourage people to learn more about one another.

improve communication.

build team rapport.

bring an element of fun and interactivity to team meetings or brainstorming sessions.

reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness.

help people to feel more relaxed and positive.

When to Use Virtual Ice Breakers

You can use virtual ice breakers at the start of any video team meeting, but there are a number of scenarios where they are particularly valuable. For example, if your team members work in different locations and aren't able to meet in person, they can help them to develop the sort of relationships and rapport that an office-based team would naturally.

Perhaps you've had to bring teams together from different organizations following a company or departmental merger. There may be initial suspicion about the "other" group at first, but a virtual ice breaker can help bring the two "sides" together, help them to develop trust and encourage cooperation.

An ice breaker can also be a great way of introducing new people to a team in a relaxed and fun way. This will help them to learn more about their new teammates (and vice versa) so that they can start developing new connections right from the "get go."

When Virtual Ice Breakers Aren't Appropriate

Ice breakers might not be appropriate for every virtual meeting. For example, spending time on a "fun" activity will likely annoy people if they are working under pressure and have a lot on, or if you are meeting to discuss a crisis or emergency.

You might also hold off on using one if a senior manager joins the call. While it may be tempting to demonstrate your team's great working dynamic, it's more important to recognize that their time is likely limited. Getting to the point quickly might be a better idea!

Even if your team works remotely, an ice breaker might not be necessary. Participants might see the activity as patronizing or as a waste of time if they're already in regular contact.

An ice breaker could help to break down unhealthy cliques when a new person joins an already-established team. Initially, you may get "push back" from existing team members who think it's a waste of time. If this is the case, explain to them why you think it's a good a idea, and encourage them to fully engage and participate in the exercise.

Designing Your Virtual Ice Breaker

Consider these factors before choosing your virtual ice breaker:

Establish a purpose. Ask yourself, "what "ice" do you want to break? Are you simply introducing people to one another for the first time? Are you bringing people together who work at different levels in your organization? Or people who have different cultures and backgrounds? You'll need to handle these differences sensitively and make sure that everyone can easily understand and get involved in the ice breaker.

Define your goals and objectives. Do you want people to learn more about one another? Or is your objective more complex? For instance, do you want to encourage people to think creatively or to solve a particular problem?

Help people feel comfortable. Your ice breaker will only be successful if everyone feels able to participate. So think about whether there are any obstacles that could hinder this, such as differences in language or culture. Steer clear of activities that might inadvertently cause offence. Bear in mind that information can often get "lost in translation," and that jokes and humor don't always travel well!

Take time into account. Do you want your ice breaker to be a quick five-minute activity or something more substantial? Take into account your purpose and objectives, as well as your team members' workloads and whether they are calling from different time zones.

Choose your frequency. Consider whether the ice breaker is a one-off or if you want to make it a regular thing. Will you change your ice breaker every time? Will the same person always take the lead or will you rotate who gets to pick and lead the activity, if you decide to have one at the start of every meeting?

Keep people's location in mind. Think about where your participants will likely be during your meeting. Will they all be at home? Will some be in an office? Or will they be travelling? This might affect how long they can spend on the call, and their level of participation and engagement.

Consider technology. Make sure that everyone is using the same video chat software, and that they are familiar with how to use it beforehand. Also establish the format that your ice breaker will take. For instance, do you want all people to use their webcam? Or will a voice call be sufficient? Some people are "camera shy," have poor internet connection or may not have the right technology. If this is the case, you might want to choose an ice breaker that doesn't rely on people being able to see each other.

Prep in advance. Decide how much information you'll need to provide your participants with beforehand. Do they, for example, need to bring a prop or prepare some information ahead of your meeting? Alternatively, you may want to keep the ice breaker a suprise, particularly if you want people to flex their creative muscles.

Virtual Ice-Breaker Examples

Here are a few simple virtual ice breaker ideas to try out in your team:

Take a Picture of Your Shoes

The idea for this virtual ice breaker comes from online meeting service Lucid Meetings.

Ask each team member to take a picture of their shoes and upload it ahead of your meeting. This activity is best for video calls, but it can work on audio calls as well, as long as everyone can see each other's pictures.

At the start of the meeting, ask each participant to discuss their choice of shoe, and the "story" behind it. For example, one person might be wearing running shoes because they're into sports, or someone else might wear flip flops because they love to travel.

You can vary this exercise by asking each team member to take a picture of an object on their desk, and getting them to talk about it.

The Social Question

Ask each participant an ice breaker question. These can help to stimulate lively conversations and even debate. Most importantly, they'll enable people to get to know each other better, and encourage communication and team bonding.

What was your first job?

What's your favorite season and why?

What's your favorite food/drink?

If there was a movie made about your life, who would play you?

What's your biggest guilty pleasure?

What do your surroundings look like?

What's your favorite place to go on vacation?

What's your favorite movie or book?

What's your favorite smell?

What music do you like?

If you were an ice cream, what flavor would you be?

When I dance I look like ___ [fill in the blank].

Do you have any pets?

What have you achieved this week that you feel proud of?

What was the last movie you watched that made you cry?

What's the story behind your name?

What's your favorite sport to play/watch?

Take a picture from your window and have people guess where you are.

Did you have any imaginary friends when you were young?

What's the weather like where you are?

What's your favorite color?

Show something that's on your desk and tell a story about it?

What's your biggest "pet peeve"?

What new thing have you learned this week?

The Time Machine

Ask the following question, to one participant at a time: "If you were able to travel through time, either forward or backward... :

Where would you go?

If backward, to which time period? Why?

If there was a person you could go back in time and meet, who would it be, and why?

Would you just want to visit and come back, or would you stay?"

Two Lies and a Truth

The idea for this ice breaker was developed by new media consultant Joitske Hulsebosch.

Ask each team member to prepare a list of three interesting "facts" about themselves, two of which must be made up. These could be anything, from a pet they own or a hobby they love to a famous person they've met.

Then, get other team members to pick which of the statements is true. The team member who receives the most incorrect votes "wins."

Key Points

Virtual ice breakers are a great way of encouraging remote teams to bond and build rapport. They can also help to improve communication, stimulate creative thinking, build internal networks, and introduce new recruits to their co-workers in a fun, engaging and positive way.

Before choosing which virtual ice breaker you should use. Think about who your participants are, consider your purpose and your key goals and objectives. You'll also need to take into account the functionality of your participants' technology, as well as any differences in time zones and culture.

There are a wide variety of virtual ice breaker activities that you can choose from, including:

Take a picture of your shoes/desk/surroundings.

Social questions.

The time machine.

Two lies and a truth.

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Virtual Ice Breakers: Bringing Remote Workers Together

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Virtual ice breakers are a great way of overcoming one of the biggest challenges of managing a remote team - that is the lack of opportunities for team bonding. It's no longer as simple as walking over to someone's desk for a quick catch up or having an informal chat round the "water cooler."

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You can add subtitles or captions to any Microsoft Stream video during upload or after. You can also choose to configure your video so Stream generates captions automatically using Automatic Speech Recognition technology. For more information, see Autogenerate captions.

Captions are indexed and used by Stream to power deep search, helping viewers watch exactly what they need. For information about how to use deep search, see Search words spoken in a video.

1. In Stream, find the video you want to edit (for example, through My videos, My channels, My groups or Browse)

2. Click the pencil icon to Update video details

3. In the Options window, upload Subtitles and Captions by selecting a language and uploading your file.

Subtitles and captions can be viewed with the video player on the playback page.

If you have uploaded a subtitle or caption file, or autogenerated a caption file, you can download the WebVTT file from the Update video details page.

If you need to make changes to the autogenerated transcript / caption, you can download the caption file and edit it in a text editor of choice before uploading it back to Stream, or you can edit the transcript directly in Microsoft Stream in the transcript window.

Get just the text from a transcript

At times you may want to get a copy of a video's transcript without any time codes, metadata, and extra lines.

Microsoft Stream doesn't have a built in way to do this, but you can download the transcript (as listed above) and use a simple web utility to extract the transcript text from your downloaded VTT file. This web utility allows you to pick VTT files from your computer and get a copy of the text portion of the VTT file containing just the transcript.

Web utility: Microsoft Stream transcript VTT file cleaner

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English to Other Language; Google Transcribe

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English to Other Language; Google Transcribe

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Google’s service, offered free of charge, instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

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Captions (subtitles) are available on videos where the owner has added them, and on some videos where YouTube automatically adds them. You can change the default settings for captions on your computer or mobile device.
Caption settings on YouTube
You can customize captions by changing their appearance and language.

Turn default setting to on or off

Change default size & style of captions

1. At the bottom right of the video player, click Settings .

2. Click Subtitles/CC.

3. Click Options.

​You can customize:

Font, color, opacity, and size.

Background color and opacity.

Window color and opacity.

Character edge style.

Caption settings on TV & game consoles

You can select or change your caption settings on any TV, game console, or media device that supports YouTube.

1. Pause the video you're playing.

2. Tap Captions .

3. Select the language you want Captions in.

4. Select Caption style.

5. Select the settings you want to customize. You can change the font and its appearance. You can also change the background and window that the captions are displayed in.

Note: If the video doesn't offer captions,

might show but won't be selectable. If

doesn't show, captions aren't available for that video.

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Otter.ai uses artificial intelligence to empower users with real-time transcription meeting notes that are shareable, searchable, accessible and secure.

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Miro is a cloud-based collaboration tool. The digital whiteboard can be used for research, ideation, mind maps, and other collaborative activities. As an educator, apply for a free account!

https://miro.com/contact/education/

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Set up captions and subtitles

You can choose which language you want to speak while presenting, and which language the caption/subtitle text should be shown in (i.e. if you want it to be translated). You can select the specific microphone you want to be used (if there is more than one microphone connected to your device), the position where the subtitles appear on the screen (bottom or top, and overlaid or separate from slide), and other display options.

1. On the Slide Show ribbon tab, select Subtitle Settings. Or, you can adjust the settings without leaving your presentation through the context menu, Slide Show or Presenter View menus > Subtitle Settings > More Settings.

2. Use Spoken Language to see the voice languages that PowerPoint can recognize, and select the one you want. This is the language that you will be speaking while presenting. (By default, this will be set to the language corresponding to your Office editing language.)

3. In the Subtitle Settings menu, set the desired position of the captions or subtitles. They can appear over the top or bottom margin of the slide (overlaid), or they can appear above the top or below the bottom of the slide (docked). The default setting is Below Slide.

4. More appearance settings are available by clicking Subtitle Settings > More Settings (Windows).

You can change the color, size, transparency, and font style of the subtitles. You can change the background to improve contrast and make text easier to read.

Turn the feature on or off while presenting

If you're in the middle of giving a presentation and want to turn the feature on or off, click the Toggle Subtitles button from Slide Show View or Presenter View, on the toolbar below the main slide:

In Slide Show View:

In Presenter View:

You can also toggle subtitles from the right-click menu, or with the shortcut key J.

To have subtitles always start up when a Slide Show presentation starts, from the ribbon you can navigate to Slide Show > Always Use Subtitles to turn this feature on for all presentations. (By default, it's off.) Then, in Slide Show and Presenter View, a live transcription of your words will appear on-screen.

Set up captions and subtitles

You can choose which language you want to speak while presenting, and which language the caption/subtitle text should be shown in (i.e. if you want it to be translated). You can select the specific microphone you want to be used (if there is more than one microphone connected to your device), the position where the subtitles appear on the screen (bottom or top, and overlaid or separate from slide), and other display options.

1. On the Slide Show ribbon tab, select Subtitle Settings.

2. In the Subtitle Settings menu, set the desired position of the captions or subtitles. They can appear over the top or bottom margin of the slide (overlaid), or they can appear above the top or below the bottom of the slide (docked). The default setting is Below Slide.

3. More appearance settings are available by clicking Subtitle Settings > System Caption Preferences.

You can change the color, size, transparency, and font style of the subtitles. You can change the background to improve contrast and make text easier to read.

Turn the feature on or off while presenting

If you're in the middle of giving a presentation and want to turn the feature on or off, click the Toggle Subtitles button from Slide Show View or Presenter View, on the toolbar below the main slide:

In Slide Show View:

In Presenter View:

Set up captions and subtitles

You can choose which language you want to speak while presenting, and which language the caption/subtitle text should be shown in (i.e., if you want it to be translated). You can also select whether subtitles appear at the top or bottom of the screen.

Simplified Ribbon:

Classic Ribbon:

(Simplifed Ribbon) On the Slide Show ribbon tab, select the drop-down arrow next to Always Use Subtitles to open the menu of options.

(Classic Ribbon) On the View ribbon tab, select Use Subtitles. Then click Subtitle Settings to open the menu of options.

Turn the feature on or off while presenting

To have subtitles always start up when a Slide Show is presented, select View > Always Use Subtitles.

If you're in the middle of giving a presentation and want to turn the feature on or off, click the Use Subtitles button in Slide Show, on the toolbar below the main slide:

On/Off keyboard shortcut: J

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Seneca's Educational Technology Tool Finder

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Seneca's Educational Technology Tool Finder

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Don't see what you are looking for?

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Examples

To explore what's in ConceptNet, try browsing what it knows about any of these terms:

Word vectors and recent publications

ConceptNet is used to create word embeddings -- representations of word meanings as vectors, similar to word2vec, GloVe, or fastText, but better.

These word embeddings are free, multilingual, aligned across languages, and designed to avoid representing harmful stereotypes. Their performance at word similarity, within and across languages, was shown to be state of the art at SemEval 2017.

The process for learning these word vectors is described in our AAAI 2017 paper, which also shows state-of-the-art results on solving analogy problems.

Support and discussion

Detailed documentation about ConceptNet appears on its GitHub wiki.

You can chat with ConceptNet developers and users on Gitter, or join the conceptnet-users mailing list.

Updates to ConceptNet and its supporting technologies appear on the ConceptNet blog.

Linked Open Data API

ConceptNet is a proud part of the ecosystem of Linked Open Data.

As a modern Linked Open Data resource, the data in ConceptNet is available in a JSON-LD API, a format that aims to make linked data easy to understand and easy to work with. If you don't care what JSON-LD is, it's just a JSON REST API with some extra metadata.

You can use ExternalURL links in ConceptNet to find the same terms in other vocabularies, such as WordNet, DBPedia, and OpenCyc, which can provide you with other forms of information.

For information on how to use the ConceptNet API, see the API documentation. Or just start browsing it and you'll probably figure it out.

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Created by Ontario College Libraries there are a lot of resources for students here! This takes you right to time management supports

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Every program at your college involves completing a long list of challenging tasks. Keeping track of those tasks, and their deadlines, is a common source of stress for college students. Many struggling students don't plan to fail; they simply fail to plan. This unit can help you learn to manage your time more effectively.

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The Learning Portal: Study Skills: Time Management

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Every program at your college involves completing a long list of challenging tasks. Keeping track of those tasks, and their deadlines, is a common source of stress for college students. Many struggling students don't plan to fail; they simply fail to plan. This unit can help you learn to manage your time more effectively.

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Fast drawing for everyone. AutoDraw pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast.

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The largest dictionary of idioms and phrases currently in use in British, American and Australian English. Over 12,000 phrases and expressions.

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Great for helping students break large academics tasks such as essay writing into manageable tasks! Google your school to see if they have an assignment calculator!

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This calculator will help you break down your assignment or project into manageable steps and guide you to useful services and tools from the Library and Learning Centre. Follow the guidelines for the assignment as discussed in class and consult with your Professor/Instructor if you have any specific questions about the assignment dates.

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This calculator will help you break down your assignment or project into manageable steps and guide you to useful services and tools from the Library and Learning Centre. Follow the guidelines for the assignment as discussed in class and consult with your Professor/Instructor if you have any specific questions about the assignment dates.

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Creates a simple To-Do list​

Easily prioritize tasks between different categories (e.g. today, tomorrow, someday, and others)​

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First Day of Class Activities That Create a Climate for Learning

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First Day of Class Activities That Create a Climate for Learning

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There's no discounting the importance of the first day of class. What happens that day sets the tone for the rest of the course. Outlined below are a few novel activities for using that first day of class to emphasize the importance of learning and the responsibility students share for shaping the classroom environment.

Best and Worst Classes - I love this quick and easy activity. On one section of the blackboard I write: "The best class I've ever had" and underneath it "What the teacher did" and below that "What the students did." On another section I write "The worst class I've ever had" (well, actually I write, "The class from hell") and then the same two items beneath. I ask students to share their experiences, without naming the course, department or teacher, and I begin filling in the grid based on what they call out. If there's a lull or not many comments about what the students did in these classes, I add some descriptors based on my experience with some of my best and worst classes. In 10 minutes or less, two very different class portraits emerge. I move to the best class section of the board and tell students that this is the class I want to teach, but I can't do it alone. Together we have the power to make this one of those "best class" experiences.

First Day Graffiti - This is an adaptation of an activity proposed by Barbara Goza in the Journal of Management Education in 1993. Flip charts with markers beneath are placed around the classroom. Each chart has a different sentence stem. Here are a few examples:

"I learn best in classes where the teacher ___"
"Students in courses help me learn when they ___"
"I am most likely to participate in classes when ___"
"Here's something that makes it hard to learn in a course: ___"
"Here's something that makes it easy to learn in a course: ___"

Students are invited to walk around the room and write responses, chatting with each other and the teacher as they do. After there are comments on every flip chart, the teacher walks to each one and talks a bit about one or two of the responses. If you run out of time, you can conduct the debriefing during the next session.

Syllabus Speed Dating - Karen Eifler, an education professor at the University of Portland, designed this activity. Two rows of chairs face each other (multiple rows of two can be used in larger classes). Students sit across from each other, each with a copy of the syllabus that they've briefly reviewed. Eifler asks two questions: one about something in the syllabus and one of a more personal nature. The pair has a short period of time to answer both questions. Eifler checks to make sure the syllabus question has been answered correctly. Then students in one of the rows move down one seat and Eifler asks the new pair two different questions. Not only does this activity get students acquainted with each other, it's a great way to get them reading the syllabus and finding out for themselves what they need to know about the course.

Irritating Behaviors: Theirs and Ours - This activity grows out of research done by Drew Appleby in 1990 ( The Journal of Staff, Program and Organizational Development). His findings are a bit dated now, but the idea is not. Appleton asked students to list faculty behaviors that most irritate them. He had faculty do the same for student behaviors. I'd put students in groups and have them respond to a slightly different question: "What are the five things faculty do that make learning hard?" Or, asked positively, "What are the five things faculty do that make it easy to learn?" Collect the lists and make a master list to share in class or online. Below the five things faculty do, you can also list the five things students do that make it hard or easy to teach. The follow-up conversation is about how the teacher and students can each commit to not doing what appears on their respective "hard" list and have a better class experience as a result.
Additional articles to help you begin the new semester:

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First Day of Class Activities that Create a Climate for Learning

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Free & Interactive Audience Engagement Platform. Check out all the features that can help you to engage your audience.

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Nearpod: Foster a love of learning in every student

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Create active learning experiences students can’t wait to be a part of.

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ScreenPal’s intuitive tools help you capture, create, and share videos and images for authentic and effective visual communication.

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Easy-to-use video creation tool. The free version has many resources and features to create compelling videos. Include pictures, text, and music. Select music from the available tracks, record your own voice or upload a track. Add videos and crop in the platform.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Block unlimited website using timers and get statistics to better understand how you are spending you time.

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The free website blocker designed for studying or focusing on work. Block distractions like social media, games, apps, Youtube or even the entire Internet.

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A chrome extension that helps you be mindful of your time spent on certain websites. It will interrupt your activity and suggest another activity to do instead. You choose the websites and the alternatives to browsing there.

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Mindful Browsing features stunning photographs from some of the world's best landscape photographers. If you're a photographer and are interested in having your work featured, email [email protected].

Mindful Browsing was built by me, Steven Skoczen, to help with my own mindless browsing. Friends liked it, so I made it available for free on the chrome store.

Mindful Browsing doesn't track any of your activity, and the code is open-source so that you (or a geeky friend) can verify nothing sneaky is going on.

You can install Mindful Browsing with two clicks. The first one is below.
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Intentionally put Course Calendar on LMS Menu

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Intentionally put Course Calendar on LMS Menu

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A place to find some inspirational thoughts

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About Random Thoughts Tool

We spend our whole life in our thoughts. Everyone has different thoughts. Because everyone touches a different world, we often hear famous celebrities, quotes, etc. Some words have been circulating for thousands of years because it teaches us a lot of truth. Everyone needs some quotes to make their lives better.

This is a very cool random thoughts generator. Unlike the stereotypes we usually see, these thoughts are very interesting. Some of them are very simple, but they contain a summary of life and can give you energy. We have collected more than 1,400 ideas from the Internet, some from celebrities, some from ordinary people, but in any case, this really helps us. We added a small feature, click the thoughts text with the mouse, it will automatically select the appropriate text, this is a convenient copy tool.

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Icebreakers

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Slides can add a thousand extra words to your presentation with their photos, charts, and bullet points-but they can never entirely replace the presentation itself. If someone in your audience can't hear the presentation, or if they read the slides later, they'll miss most of the details you share.

Google Slides is launching a new feature to make presentations more accessible for everyone with automated closed captioning. When you present with Google Slides, click the CC button in the lower left corner or press the Ctrl or CMD+ Shift+ C shortcut to enable closed captioning. Then keep your laptop close by, and as you talk, your mic will pick up everything you say and add it as closed captioning on the bottom of your presentation.

Google Slides closed captioning supports spoken English, using Google Chrome on a Mac or PC for now, and captions aren't stored at the moment. You can, however, record your screen while presenting then save the finished video with your captions recorded as well. And soon, Google hopes to expand closed captioning to additional languages and devices to make all presentations more accessible.

→ Learn more from the Google Blog, then connect Google Slides to your team's workflows with Zapier's Google Slides integrations.

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New for Google Slides: Automatically Add Closed Captions to Presentations

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Ava - All-in-One Click Captions for All Conversations

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Ava offers free live captions or transcriptions for videoconferencing (including Zoom and Meet) and in-person meetings. In one click, Ava accurately captions any meeting, lecture, doctor visit or important conversation using AI & professional captioners providing 24/7 communication access for Deaf & hard-of-hearing people.

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An app for on the fly OCR. Available on Apple and Android

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Create lessons with questions. You will be able to view students responses

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TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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MURAL enables innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems. People benefit from MURAL’s speed and ease of use in creating diagrams, which are popular in design thinking and agile methodologies, as well as tools to facilitate more impactful meetings and workshops.

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AI-powered visual workspace for team collaboration | Mural

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This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.I have

Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others.

I began to think about the triangular shape of Bloom's Taxonomy and realized I thought of it a bit differently.

Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes in and out of the each level as they acquire new content and turn it into knowledge, I created a different type of image that showcased my thoughts about Bloom's more meaningfully.

Here is my visual which showcases the interlocking nature of the cognitive processes or, simply, the "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes".

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Includes all the Bloomin' versions in one place!

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Inspiration 10 and Inspiration Maps: Visual Thinking Tools

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Inspiration 10 and Inspiration Maps: Visual Thinking Tools

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Introducing Inspiration 10 and Inspiration Maps software, simple but powerful visual thinking tools for creating concept maps, mind maps, diagrams, graphic organizers, outlines and presentations with ease!

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Asset management

Easily store, organize and search the assets and designs for your team's projects. Whether you're creating a presentation, report, or infographic, find all your uploaded assets in one place.

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Create Presentations, Infographics, Design & Video | Visme

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Create professional presentations, interactive infographics, beautiful design and engaging videos, all in one place. Start using Visme today.