Welcome Week Activities

It's just about that time of year, the pressure is easing off a little, although I'm looking forward to a nervous breakdown with all the new material that I am going to have to prepare in the time I don't have, so instead I took the opportunity to review some of my favourite RSS feeds, one of which is Dave Gray's Communications Nation and I came accross an article about an ice breaking activity which sounded quite fun (I just love Dave's illustrations, wonder if he'll consider illustrating that book I haven't written yet!!?).
Anyway, I started thinking about how sad and tired some of the welcome week activities (apart from the IS divisions take on the Dragons Den which we lay on for the whole business school) we've been churning out for the past few years (building towers/structures with newspaper - sorry Debbie!), this may well just be one that we could use. So, follow the link, and have a look, and if you're looking for a displacement activity ( :-) ) from the work that you have to do but just don't seem to want to do, then find us another activity somewhere out there in the blog-o-sphere and comment to this post.
Best suggestion by the end of August gets a prize! The activity should be suitable for around 20-30 students and shouldn't be too difficult and take less than an hour.