Sheila is a spry, energetic student. I remember her as having been the very first to engage the syllabus. She was fully engaged by the time I assumed the instruction for this section in the middle of the first week which was a period of acclimation and not intended to result in any output.

She introduced herself to me early on in the course, ETAP526, from the SUNY Learning Network (SLN). She was familiar with many of the interns who shared an office in the . She is quite sociable with whomever she has met, makes an introduction readily, and is quite a friendly person. She enjoyed time spent together, readily sought help from myself and others. I helped her at first in the time I scheduled for myself in the LTL Lab every Tuesday. There was not a day of the week that she was not present in the lab for some time or not for several hours.

She has quite impressive career plans, seeking a degree (on-line for the first time in the Fall99 from SLN) in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology (CDIT) in addition to the MS in Educational Administration she is earning in the semester of this study (Spring99). She was pleased in her interview, when I explained that the whole degree was on-line).

I introduced Sheila in late April to Masi and asked if she would mind serving as a peer mentor for her. She readily agreed, though she mentioned that it would need to be soon or else her work on her thesis would be interfered.

They began working together on 4May99. Consequently, Masi has fully engaged the syllabus and hopes to finish by the end of May...