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Virtual partner interview / small group interview

Contribution to the learning process

The method helps to build up relations between students, which is the basis for cooperative learning.

To see how virtual plan games re integrated in the FyR project, see "Online cooperation in your river project".

Objective

To get to know each other

IT-Tool

Chat, html:

Book of the River > My book (login) > our partnerships > Work spaces with partner schools > (select your work space) and there the tools:
Chat,
html

Your workspace is closed to the public. Only you and your partner group have access.

You have 6 chatrooms in your workspace.

Required time for preparation and realization

small

Time needed

2 hours

Target group

Two groups of students in different places who don’t know each other.

Requirements and preparation

Divide the students so that Student 1 from school A meets Student 1 from school B in Chat room 1, and so on.
Students and teachers can prepare guide questions for the interview, but it’s not necessary.
Upload digital photos of the students.

Realization

The students interview each other in the chat rooms (e.g. about the person, about hobbies and interests).

After that, each student writes a short description of the student they interviewed from the other school, using the html-editor. A photo shall be integrated. All the descriptions are published on the platform.

All students can read all the descriptions.

Experiences / results

This activity is an internet adaptation of a well known method for to getting to know each other at meetings.

Tips

This activity can also be carried out as virtual small group interview. In this case, 2-3 students from each school come together in one chat room. This variation may be useful if the learning groups do not have the same number of students.

A group of students from Italy developed the following list of guiding questions. This can be used to guide the interview but is not required and the students can choose which questions to ask.

What is your name?
How old are you?
Have you got any brothers or sisters?
Do you have any pets?
Do you live near your school?
Do you have a boy\girl friend?
Do you play any sports?
What are your hobbies?
What kind of music do you listen to?
Do you play any musical instruments?
What kind of school do you attend?
What subjects do you study?
How many hours do you spend at school?
Why did you choose the school you attend?
Are you going to attend university?
Do you like this project?
Do you like the web site?
Have you found any difficulties in using the site?
Have you ever been to a river to carry out some chemical analysis?
Have you had any difficulties with the analysis?
How long have you been doing this project?
Have you already used the checklist?
Which river are you studying? Why?

Literature

BRAUNECK/URBANECK/ZIMMERMANN 1999, Nr. 051 und 068