Vent some Spleen

Whilst doing a little research for a lecture I'm preparing on 'Managing (your) Information' for my Gateway To Computing module, the section on web-logs, I was looking for an example for students other than my own web-logs - searching on 'students' turned up this web-log; Rate Your Students. Have a read, can you identify with some of the comments there ;-)
Comment to this post, if you find one which offers view-points from the other side so to speak.
A couple of articles on this blog, food for thought, one from a graduate and one from a tutor after getting some bad public feedback.
Those of you that know me, probably know I like a bit of a rant, my application's in for a contributing editor!!!!

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.