Wikipedia Introduction

This an exercise I use on the first day of class with new groups that I haven't met before. It's a nice alternative to having all your students coming up with robotic responses like my name is Piotr and I like playing volleyball and eating pizza. In the bottom box I paste my picture in the right column with my stats like nickname, height, and weight. And write a bio for myself as it would appear on wikipedia. I then give my new students 10 minutes to write their own biography in the third-person in the box above. When they're finished, they then read and introduce themselves to the rest of the class.