Introducing a classmate: Week 1

To start our Assessment in E-Learning class students paired off for mutual interviews.  We then introduced our partner to the class.  This was pleasant and allowed us to get to know one classmate before learning about the whole class.  It also felt more natural.  In a f2f class I would probably learn people's names, but get to know them more one at a time.  My partner was Dawn Shelbourn, and this is how I introduced her on January 11.  Unfortunately our Packers did not come through for us on the following Sunday.

Please join me in welcoming Dawn Sherbourn to our class.  Dawn has been an educator for 22 years, first with in Adult Basic Education at Black Hawk Technical College in Janesville, WI and now as a 4th grade teacher in Whitewater, WI.  This is her second course in Stout's E-Learning program. 

Dawn sees the program as a way to develop online curriculum  to make her 4th grade class "more authentic, where students are constructing knowledge through projects and discussions."  Like Michelle in Rhinelander Dawn's classroom involves a lot of technology, including laptops and a Promethean board.  The students have taken to the technology, and she has already engaged them in several online, book club discussions.

Like many of us Dawn also has has an eye on the flexible schedule that full time teaching online could afford her in the future.  Dawn and her husband have three wonderful children, two in high school and one in college.  As her family changes increased flexibility would facilitate travel to stay in touch with the children and to take nice weekend trips.

 

Last, but not least, Dawn and her family will be cheering on the Packers this weekend.  Go Pack Go!

Eric in St. Paul, but formerly of Neenah, WI