All the activities I suggest are low-tech, fun, and easy to run. And they always have a point which can be adapted according to your learning objective.

To give you an idea, here are some of the exercises you’ll find in the book (activities marked * can be adapted to work online as well as offline):

Icebreakers / Revision

• Snowball fight
• Pig personality profile *
• Pass the parcel
• Questions in a hat *
• Toilet paper *
• Pennies in a basket *

Networking

• Networking bingo
• Say hello
• Count to 20 *
• Name game
• Yes and / yes but *
• The networking handshake
• Eye contact

Breaking large groups into small groups or pairs

• Fuzzy balls
• Index cards (File cards) Pairs
• Index cards (File cards) Groups
• Line up
• Islands

Enlivening ‘boring’ information

• Pub quiz *
• Higher / lower *
• Visual flipcharts *

Audience voting

• Stand up *
• Red / green *

Miscellaneous

• Envelopes
• Paper tearing *
• Game mashup
• Change chairs
• Pick a card, any card (contributed by Alan Stevens)
• Woolly handcuffs (contributed by Gina Schreck)

Case studies

• Speedy brainstorm (with thanks to Shirley Taylor and Andy Lopata)
• Pop-up tent
• Rope trick (with thanks to Julie Holmes)

To get exclusive links to the videos where I demonstrate each activity with a live audience, you’ll have to buy the book on Amazon.