Module 2 Pair-Share Activity - from UofW Stout online class

The post below is a response to an assignment in EDUC 762 Assessment in Learning, a graduate class in offered by UofW Stout in the Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching.

That assignment:

After you have created your blog, copy/paste last week’s partner interview (your own story), and your notes from the Module Two reading interactive inventory into your blog. Additionally you can add images, a link to the course wiki, readings and any other activity or assessment choices that you acquire here.

Below is the partner interview I completed with my classmate Nishele.

Hi everyone:

Nishele and Greg here saying hello. We are both looking forward to a productive learning experience over the next weeks with all of you.

http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/lenards/

Nishele has a wonderful sense of humor - check her profile for her most memorable learning experience. She and Greg share the following:
Both born in Ohio
Both have 2 children at home
Both enjoy scrapbooking
Both are involved in higher education

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~gpratt/

Greg and Nishele spent the time before the formal beginning of our class on Jan. 14 completing the pair share activity that is the basis for this discussion post. This reflects another commonality between us-we are both type A personalities. Below is an excerpt from one of our e mail exchanges written by Greg to Nishele:

"With your background in online learning and teaching you know the costs and benefits (see subtle economics at work) of online education. As type A personalities we thrive in the online world. As you have found I am certain, the challenge is to assist those who are deadline junkies or how do not have a formal organization for their learning or lives. Those who live in the chaos of the real world and lack the internal mechanisms to self regulate and schedule often get left behind in online environments . . . unless those online worlds are facebook or second life.

Well, as you can tell, I love to talk so . . . I'll leave you alone.

I think we have "processed" this activity and can move on to the discussion forum.

Nishele great to meet you and I actually like this activity - while I am not certain it would work with my online students - freshman and women in college, I do think it has great potential for participants in professional development or graduate programs.

Look forward to working with you in the cyberspace of this class community."

Nishele and I look forward to your comments about this pair-share activity and your evaluation of the costs and benefits of this type of community building activity.

Greg@Az and Nishele@Wisconsin