N2R - Featured Sponsors donate all the software needed for N2R and for the FYBR telementoring program. The Board of Directors are unpaid volunteers who guide the development of NET at http://www.n2r.net/featured.html
Extractions: N2R's New Home N2R-LLL Participants N2R has been in existence since 1995, largely due to our steadfast, loyal and generous partners. We encourage you to frequent these companies as they have all demonstrated outstanding customer service, high integrity and an ongoing and generous commitment to the community as well as a global vision. If you have any questions about any of our sponsors please email barb@n2r.net e.Republic Adopted N2R and FYBR about two years ago in accordance with the principles outlined in Revolution of the Heart. e. Republic has been an ongoing support to N2R. Without them, N2R would not be in existence today. Some of the many donations to N2R include: booth space, seminar opportunities at the last three Government Technology Conferences in May, marketing support, fundraising support, articles in publications, etc. Covansys
N2R - Homepage We provide a secure virtual classroom called Follow the Yellow Brick Road Telementoring FYBR where volunteers mentor youth from disadvantaged areas http://www.n2r.net/
Extractions: NET at TWO RIVERS , (N2R) was formed in 1995 by twenty-five organizations, including the U.S. Department of Commerce, state and local government, hospitals, libraries, k-12 education, higher education, nonprofits, and computer user groups. N2R is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation dedicated to serving youth in disadvantaged areas using the power of the Internet. FYBR Check out pictures from the FYBR KIDZ GRADUATION Without the dedication and hard work of countless volunteers , N2R and FYBR would not be in existence! Recent News:
Report To The President On The Use Of Technology should be provided with ongoing mentoring and consultative support, and with the possibility of instituting "teleapprenticeship" or "tele-mentoring" programs involving brief, but http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~panzier/future/teach2.htm
Extractions: March 1997 In an era of increasing international economic competition, the quality of America's elementary and secondary schools could determine whether our children hold highly compensated, high-skill jobs that add significant value within the integrated global economy of the twenty-first century or compete with workers in developing countries for the provision of commodity products and low-value-added services at wage rates comparable to those received by third world laborers. Moreover, it is widely believed that workers in the next century will require not just a larger set of facts or a larger repertoire of specific skills, but the capacity to readily acquire new knowledge, to solve new problems, and to employ creativity and critical thinking in the design of new approaches to existing problems. While a number of different approaches have been suggested for the improvement of K-12 education in the United States, one common element of many such plans has been the more extensive and more effective utilization of computer, networking, and other technologies in support of a broad program of systemic and curricular reform. During a period in which technology has fundamentally transformed America's offices, factories, and retail establishments, however, its impact within our nation's classrooms has generally been quite modest.
VV Archive 1 of online mentoring and teletutoring programs involving volunteers , with profiles of Telementoring a View From the Facilitator s Screen , by Laura Amill, a http://www.energizeinc.com/art/subj/VVArchive1.html
Extractions: working with clients (including students) This information was last updated on April 3, 2000 Direct contact online volunteers work directly with a client / recipient of your service. For example, a volunteer, via e-mail or a chat room, could: electronically "visit" with someone who is homebound, in a hospital or a rest home
VV Archive 2 but most by other organizations can help both volunteers and staff Project has also compiled information about various telementoring/teletutoring programs http://www.energizeinc.com/art/subj/VVArchive2.html
Extractions: Before an agency staff starts a program that will bring together online volunteers with clients, students or the public, consider how such a program will fit within the organization's mission; how will this program be an extension of the agency goals? You will need to be able to answer this question before beginning any steps to set up such a virtual volunteering program at your organization.
The Chronicle: 2/22/2001: A Virtual Army Of Volunteers Stay away from a social type of telementoring program, Mr. Neils cautions, because otherwise mentors may find themselves in situations Managing volunteers. http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v13/i09/09003701.htm
Extractions: increasingly is giving people like Latasha Greer a full-time graduate student at Columbia University who works part-time at a small family foundation and teaches a tenth-grade course each afternoon a way to fit volunteering into their busy and sometimes unpredictable schedules. She is one of 400 volunteers who exchange e-mail with New York high-school students through a charity called iMentor. Ms. Greer and the Brooklyn senior she has been paired with exchange e-mail messages several times a week on topics such as career goals and college applications. The proliferation of such online opportunities reflects a growing demand for flexible forms of volunteering. In addition to tutoring students, thousands of people are providing friendship and support to people in need and offering their fund-raising and Web-design expertise online to help charities around the world. Among the organizations that have seen growth in a trend often called virtual volunteering: VolunteerMatch,
MANAGING PEOPLE: Managing Volunteers It s also known as online volunteering, cyber service, telementoring, teletutoring, and their volunteer programs, by allowing for more volunteers to participate http://www.vskn.ca/hrm/vinfor.htm
Extractions: Managing Volunteers READ ABOUT IT Information on the Web The Virtual Volunteering Project. 'Virtual volunteering' means volunteer tasks completed, in whole or in part, via the Internet and at home or work computer. It's also known as online volunteering, cyber service, telementoring, teletutoring, and various other names. Virtual volunteering allows agencies to expand the benefits of their volunteer programs, by allowing for more volunteers to participate, and by utilizing volunteers in new areas. This resource provides a complete how-to information for people and organizations interested in working with virtual volunteers. For more on virtual volunteering in Canada see: Virtual volunteering: current status and future prospects . Canadian Centre for Philanthropy. IYV Research Program. 2002. This short report presents findings from a survey of Canadian volunteer managers, volunteers, and prospective volunteers and also considers what virtual volunteering might be like in the future.
Telementoring In The CoVis Project From the teacher s perspective, telementoring offers an opportunity for students to break their time to search for a large enough pool of volunteers if your http://www.covis.nwu.edu/info/philosophy/telementoring.html
Extractions: Telementoring in the CoVis Project What is mentoring? Mentoring is a relationship in which a knowledgeable, usually older person, aids a less knowledgeable and usually younger person to better understand how to perform in a new job or a new community of practice. This aid includes not only training in required skills, but also help in getting along with others in the community and appreciating and living up to the values and norms of a new role. Unlike a typical training relationship, the mentoring relationship is a reciprocal one, meaning that both the mentor and mentee benefit developmentally. The benefits for mentees may sometimes be more obvious than those for mentors, but the mentoring relationship also provides mentors with a sense of their own maturity, validation of their professional abilities, and the reward of seeing those that they have helped succeed. In some cases, what starts off as a relationship between unequal partners turns into a friendship, with strong mutual respect. What is telementoring?
Archived: Telementoring Programs a broad range of communication and collaboration technologies, including telementoring. Mentor Database enables teachers to match these volunteers with teams http://www.ed.gov/pubs/emath/part2.html
Extractions: e-mail: jbharris@tenet.edu Web Site: http://www.tapr.org/emissary/ Type: Resource to help teachers design and implement curriculum-based projects involving communication with subject matter experts. Project Description: The Electronic Emissary Project has been on-line since February of 1993 and is based at the University of Texas at Austin, in the College of Education. The project helps teachers locate Internet-account holders with subject matter expertise relevant to their curricula who are willing to volunteer some of their time to share their knowledge via e-mail. The Emissary's Project Title: Electronic Mentoring Project Contact: Karen Ferneding Lenert, Project Manager
Archived: Introduction families by engaging adult volunteers and providing highquality resources to students around the nation. - . Table of Contents Telementoring Programs http://www.ed.gov/pubs/emath/part1.html
Extractions: A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n E-MATH: A Guide to E-mail Based Volunteer Programs Designed to Help Students Master Challenging Mathematics, Science and Technology (April 1998) Introduction "Getting adults and students together via e-mail is an effective, new way to use the Information Superhighway to improve education. I invite professionals and technicians from all walks of life business, engineering, technology, health care, mathematics, science, accounting and other fields that use math in their daily work to visit schools or get on the Internet and work with students and their teachers to help all students master challenging mathematics, no matter where they live in this great country." Richard W. Riley Secretary of Education I n this technological era, mathematics and science achievement are more important than ever before. Mastering mathematics, including the foundations of algebra and geometry, by the end of eighth grade, puts students on the path to more advanced high school mathematics and science courses, college, and success in a wide variety of careers. Mathematics equals opportunity, and students who fail to master basic and more advanced mathematics face limited options for being admitted into college and entering well-paying careers. Around the country, there are thousands of professionals in the technology, engineering, mathematics, scientific, business and education communities with a strong knowledge of mathematics and science and a desire to join with teachers and parents to help students achieve high standards. However, while many professionals would like to volunteer, finding time to go to a school or other location to work with students to deepen their understanding and interest in mathematics and science can be daunting.
IMentor Many of these telementoring programs differ from iMentor (for instance, they connect on projects related to their fields, or they draw on volunteers from a http://www.imentor.org/resources/general.jsp
FAQs About 'Virtual' Volunteering known as online volunteering, cyber service, online mentoring, telementoring, and various other names, offers a number of benefits to both volunteers and the http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/17/30.html
Extractions: for details. We receive a royalty on Nonprofit Books purchased through Amazon.com. V irtual volunteering means volunteer tasks completed, in whole or in part, via the Internet and a home, work, university or community access center computer. Virtual volunteering is similar to telecommuting, except that, instead of online employees, these are online volunteers. Online volunteers: translate documents research topics and gather data create web pages, brochures and newsletters design presentations research and develop curricula design databases and graphics offer professional expertise and advice (business, legal, marketing, organic farming, etc.)
Welcome To California FYBR is a secure virtual classroom called Follow the Yellow Brick Road Telementoring (FYBR) where volunteers mentor youth from disadvantaged areas and http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/fybr.shtm
Extractions: Follow the Yellow Brick Road A special graduation celebration was held for students from the Follow the Yellow Brick Road Telementoring Program www.fybr.org ). The graduation celebration was held at the new HP (Hewlett-Packard) Community Technology Center in the Del Paso CORAL (Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning) facility in Sacramento located at 2110 Del Paso Blvd. The event was taped by the Governor's Mentoring Partnership. The students and the HP telementor knew each other by CODE NAME only. One of the students messages was read out loud and then both the student and the HP telementor were called up front to meet each other and receive a certificate of completion from the course as well as a FYBR KIDZ shirt. The students had been working with their HP telementors remotely over the past five weeks accessing the FYBR program from the new HP Community Technology Center in the Del Paso CORAL facility. All of the telementors for this FYBR session were from HP. The HP volunteers have been able to successfully telementor from their home or office.
California Governor's Mentoring Partnership Program Net at Two Rivers (N2R) provides a secure virtual classroom called Follow the Yellow Brick Road Telementoring (FYBR) where volunteers mentor youth http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/
Extractions: Tips for Building a Mentoring Relationship Funding Alert: $30 Million in Federal Grants Now Available; Grant Reviewers Also Needed. See Get Grants for more info. Attention Mentor Programs Click here to participate in our brief mentor program questionnaire. Completion of this questionnaire guarantees that you will receive a free video and tool kit to provide you with marketing, public relations, program development, collaboration, sustainability, and recruitment tools. Your program will then also be included in the California Mentoring Program Directory , making it more visible to the public.
Hawai'i Networked Learning Communities, Telementoring It is also an opportunity for local volunteers from universities, government and industry to Telementoring is much more than the usual ask an expert program. http://www.hnlc.org/telementoring/telementoring.html
Extractions: Schools Leadership Resources Idea Exchange Telementoring About HNLC Home Telementoring Telementoring Telementors Inquiry Learning What is Telementoring? Telementoring is an opportunity for teachers and students to get inspired in science and math and receive guidance from Hawaii-based scientists with in-depth field knowledge. It is also an opportunity for local volunteers from universities, government and industry to act as valuable role models for Hawaii's students and influence their future career choices. Telementoring is much more than the usual "ask an expert" program. Instead of simply providing answers, our mentors guide students and teachers through the scientific inquiry process so that they learn how to find their own answers. This program is currently being developed according to the needs of our teachers, and may be active by Fall, 2003. What Projects can Benefit from Telementoring?
Hawai'i Networked Learning Communities, Telementors The telementors are knowledgeable volunteers who have an interest in fostering students You can learn more about telementoring in Kevin O Neill s online book http://www.hnlc.org/telementoring/mentors.html
Extractions: Schools Leadership Resources Idea Exchange Telementoring About HNLC Home Telementoring Telementoring Telementors Inquiry Learning Who are the Telementors? The telementors are knowledgeable volunteers who have an interest in fostering students' intellectual development. In the HNLC context they are adults with expertise in math and science-related fields who are willing to participate in on-line collaborative intellectual partnerships with students. You can learn more about telementoring in Kevin O'Neill's online book: The Telementor's Guidebook: A field guide to supporting student inquiry on-line Want to become a Telementor? If you would like to nurture a student's curiosity in math and science, and feel you can commit the time and effort it takes to engage a young inquisitive mind, we invite you to email us for further information.
UNITeS - The Knowledge Base For International Online Volunteers It s also known as online volunteering, cyber service, telementoring, teletutoring and various other not have the time, space or money to get volunteers to do. http://www.unites.org/html/resource/gannon/gannon5.htm
Extractions: RESOURCE CENTER My UNITeS FAQs ICT Success Stories ... Home ICT as Accessibility Potentially the most important aspect of the new ICT is it's use in accessibility. This refers 2 separate but related aspects: volunteers finding out about an organisation and finding routes into its volunteering opportunities; and how technology can assist people to physically volunteer. Online matching is an excellent example of the first point. There are numerous sites on the Internet (see Appendix 1) that have large databases of available opportunities that will present potential volunteers with lists of volunteering opportunities based on criteria that they specify. The previous case study is a good example. There are many advantages to virtual volunteering. The main advantage is that the volunteers do not physically have to locate to where the organisation is. There are, therefore, savings in terms of workspace but also working materials and travelling expenses. It also enables organisations to search for the right person with the right skills and not be constrained by distance. The right volunteer could be within 10 metres of the office or might be 10, 000 kilometres away. With virtual volunteering the only constraint is the depth of your imagination in how to involve online volunteers. Susan J. Ellis and Jayne Cravens have written an excellent book on the subject called 'The Virtual Volunteering Guidebook' (2000) which is available to download for free (see
Electronic Mentoring Project General Information in mentorship relationships with online volunteers will broaden their horizon of possible futures and opportunities. In order for telementoring to move beyond http://www.tapr.org/4d/info.html
Extractions: Introduction The Four Directions Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to enhance the quality of education in Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools through the use of electronic technologies. Many of the Four Directions (4D) Project schools, all of which serve Native American children, are located in remote, rural areas and do not have access to the information resources and assistance available to students in urban settings. A major goal of the Four Directions Project, therefore, is to use the new information and telecommunications technologies to help address the educational needs of these Native American students. As an educational application of information and telecommunications technology, the Electronic Mentors Project is specifically designed to link volunteer on-line mentors with 4D Native American students and their teachers. The Electronic Mentoring project will enable 4D classroom teachers and their students to collaborate with Native American on-line volunteers from various fields of expertise, interests, professional experience and tribal affiliations. The mentor, students and teachers will engage in collaborative efforts to complete a learning project of mutual interest. In effect, the Electronic Mentoring project acts as a "matching service" that helps teachers locate volunteers for purposes of arranging curriculum-based, electronic exchanges between their students and on-line mentors.
Students Who Are Involved With Telementoring In High School Are joined with Colin Powell in Philadelphia recently to form a corps of volunteers. how to improve race relations in America; I see telementoring fitting right http://www.tnellen.com/ted/tc/tele1.html
Extractions: Students who are involved with telementoring in high school are more apt to graduate from high school than those high school students who aren't involved in telementoring. Telementoring is the cyber-technology driven version of mentoring using various methods of electronic communications. I wish to explore how telementoring may serve as a method to assist in increasing high school graduation rates. I am trying to prove that when high school students are influenced by many forces in society, (parents, business, government, and citizens) their chances for graduation from high school will be greater than those students who are not influenced by society. Society is trying to influence schools and educators are devising ways to keep society out. Telementoring may be a political way to solve this problem. Graduation rates are still a main topic in most states as witnessed by the recent rash of "standards" debates in our states. Improving the quality of and quantity of high school graduates is the main focus of telementoring. One of the reasons telementoring may be viable at this time is that society and education are talking and collaborating. Efforts to wire the schools, to provide computers, and to fund the schools, demonstrate society's desire to assist in the education of its citizens. A theory I am trying to prove is that society can help educate its population through telementoring. Providing society access to schools has always been a logistically difficult matter and politically dangerous. However, with improvements in technology, telementoring can serve as the vehicle to overcome these logistical impossibilities because telementoring can provide access to many more by many more and not just to the powerful or privileged. Communities are forming online parent's groups which are interacting with the students in the schools which are wired. Administrators, teachers, and businesses all have their own electronic means of communicating within their own groups. Using the same vehicle, electronic communications, I wish to show how high school graduation rates will rise in quality and quanity. The concept of the village educating the child was introduced long ago and more recently re-introduced by the First Lady. Include the notion espoused by many former Presidents who joined with Colin Powell in Philadelphia recently to form a corps of volunteers. Add to that the efforts of John Gage to wire the schools and another Presidential mandate to study how to improve race relations in America; I see telementoring fitting right into the scheme of things politically and pedagogically. Telementoring provides the means of communicating and presenting ideas and including many in the process of educating. Telementoring provides audience for the students and mentoring from a volunteer who has a concern for education. Telementoring allows for involvement by parents, business, government, and citizens in the education of its citizens. Telementoring is a vehicle which will help carry the political ideas, cultural values, and pedagogy to the people and raise the graduation rates in number and quality. It is community politics. The data which will be of interest to me include: number of students in the school, size of each grade-level class, graduating percentages of senior classes in past, percentage involved in telementoring, analysis of methods of telementoring, Internet access in school, at home. Further I will be seeking methods of retrieving and assessing data concerned with telementoring as a means to break the single teacher mold, to provide a more open doored policy, to create more performance driven curricula, to form a community which involves parents, alumni, teachers, students, school boards, administrators, and citizens. Telementoring continues and enhances the grassroots running of education in America by its local communities because it provides a means for society to be involved in education. From government agencies like OERI, ERIC, and many others, I will be gathering statistical data. Telementoring data will be collected from spots around the country which are actively involved in telementoring. They include: University of Texas at Austin, Judy Harris contact; Hewlett Packard telementoring program, David Neils contact; Department of Energy's database of mentoring and telementoring projects; the students of New York City's Murry Bergtraum High School; and other sources as they appear. Much of the major literature on telementoring, of course, is online at those spots listed in the previous paragraph. Many more articles about telementoring appear in online magazines called zines. Specific educational zines such as Kairos, CMC, Edweek, Teacher, provide useful information and data to support the effectiveness of telementoring on the graduation rate of high schoolers. Articles in commercial magazines and newspapers have discussed the merits of telementoring. Since telementoring is a relatively new application of the age old practice of mentoring, literature about mentoring should certainly be referred to. I expect to conclude that telementoring has a positive effect on the graduation rate of high schoolers. I suspect this because telementoring is relieving some of the pressures from society's desire to direct education by letting them into the schools. I further hope to add more fodder too the argument that it takes a village to educate the child. Telementoring may provide a partial solution to "too many kids for too few teachers." Telementoring may bring many of the political ideas and cultural values to America's youth. I expect to conclude that telementoring not only has a positive effect on the graduation rate of high schools, but that it will help create a better citizen. Ted Nellen
Telementoring Cyber Big Brother/Big Sister Submitted By Elizabeth Telementoring Cyber Big Brother/Big Sister Submitted by Elizabeth Colbert and Ted Mentors, who are usually volunteers, and mentees have little time to spare http://www.tnellen.com/ted/tc/proposal.1.html
