Extractions: "At its core, a mentorship reflects the way in which humans have always passed on their legacy, their artistry." (Tomlinson, 2001, p. 5) Parents, classroom teachers, and teachers of the gifted cannot be all things to the young people in their charge. The nature and diversity of gifted students' interests demand resources beyond the confines of the school and sometimes beyond the confines of the community. These demands demonstrate the need for mentors and other resource people. Mentoring and Gifted Education Telementoring The ubiquitous nature of the Internet makes telementoring a popular option for gifted students. Telementoring becomes even more important for students with esoteric interests from rural and low-income communities because educators and parents in these areas may find it difficult to locate a nearby mentor. Telementoring can also increase technological literacy for students in low-income communities where exposure to technology may be limited.
Extractions: Participating from the Sidelines, Online: Facilitating Telementoring Projects University of Texas at Austin 406 Sanchez Building Austin, TX judi.harris@mail.utexas.edu Abstract Asynchronous, text-based communication is different from most other forms of interchange in important ways. It lacks the full spectrum of visual and audible information that people depend upon, often unconsciously, in face-to-face exchanges. It also requires different interaction strategies if it is to be used to create maximal educational benefit by and for students and teachers. These techniques can be modeled and made explicit by someone closely following online conversations in the role of facilitator, helping participants to construct online teaching/learning experiences in mutually beneficial ways. The Electronic Emissarys years of research have shown that the people best prepared to assist in these ways have experience in both online communication and pedagogy. The Emissary's facilitators provide individualized, "just in time" assistance to teachers, students, and subject matter experts during their telementoring exchanges. The Electronic Emissary The Electronic Emissary Project (http://www.tapr.org/emissary/), prototyped in fall, 1992, and launched online in February 1993, is, to our knowledge, the longest-running K-12 telementoring effort. The Emissary is a "matching service," pairing subject matter expert volunteers with K-12 teachers and their students who are studying in the fields of the SMEs' expertise.
National Mentoring Partnership: Online Mentoring Resources is an especially good resource for teachers looking for telementoring activities Guidelines for School Officials, volunteers and Mentors Participating in Public http://mentoring.web.aol.com/common/online_mentoring/online_resources.adp?Menu=n
Herbert Smith - Community Action - Work In Schools Telementoring Telementoring is a new project started in late 2002. with Newham Educational Business Partnership, involves 24 Herbert Smith volunteers acting as http://www.herbertsmith.com/miscellaneous/page.asp?id=19
Distance Learning | Unit I | Examples Online Mentoring Telementoring Young Women in Science, Math and Engineering Packard EMail Mentoring Project matches Hewlett Packard volunteers worldwide in http://www.dlrn.org/educ/course/unit1/examples.html
Extractions: Distance Learning: Example Sites Research Resources Interactivities Online Mentoring Telementoring Young Women in Science, Math and Engineering matches female high school students with women working professionally in mathematics, science and engineering careers in a structured mentoring relationship that persists through the school year. The Hewlett Packard EMail Mentoring Project matches Hewlett Packard volunteers world-wide in partnerships with selected students and their teachers. The Electronic Emissary Project is a screened database of "subject matter expert" volunteers whom teachers can recruit to supplement curriculum for the entire class, or to support individual students on specific projects.
Mentoring And Volunteering Opportunities At Embracing The Child Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Computing. LEARNING LEADERS is a nonprofit organization that recruits and trains volunteers to provide http://www.embracingthechild.org/mentor.html
Extractions: Embracing the Child has a need for a great many volunteers: book reviewers, reading tutors, readers, technical support, writers, PR and Marketing, Grant writers and Fundraising. If you are interested in discussing any of these volunteer positions, please email or call 215-576-5603 Reading Families Program - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA The Reading Families Program is a Family Literacy Initiative for motivating Head Start children and parents to read together through the Lucky Readers' Club. Parents can get tutoring, and attend Reading Aloud workshops. Children get free books in this reading-incentive program for families, and RSVP volunteers receive emergent literacy training. Growing a Volunteer Tutor Program: Engaging Communities to Support Schools . Tutor programs hold great promise for helping children succeed in school, but getting a newprogram off the ground can challenge even the most dedicated organizers. Our new publication, Growing a Volunteer Tutor Program: Engaging Communities to Support Schools, offers advice for surviving the critical start-up year. Cross-Cultural Solutions : India, Africa, and Latin AmericaVolunteer in humanitarian service programs. Work with social service pioneers, immerse yourself in a vibrant new culture, empower local communities and contribute to vital global issues, such as healthcare, education, and social development. The basic length of a trip is 3 weeks with an option of adding more time.
Mentor Center - Telementoring Software For Education BBN s Mentor Center(TM) harnesses the power of the Internet to foster mentoring relationships and thereby expand the number of volunteers in education. http://mentor.cbwl.org/
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Archives 2000 August Recruiting & Retention of Virtual volunteers is fast moving past the new ideas category. Virtual volunteering is now morphing into subcategories; cyberservice, telementoring, or http://www.volunteertoday.com/ARCHIVES 2000/Augustrecrui.html
Extractions: The research on voluntary groups showed that: Given this information, he outlined the ways in which computer technology can streamline the work of managing volunteers. Gannon's recommendation makes a good checklist for anyone wishing to integrate computer technology into his or her program. It also has excellent reasons to share with administrators to provide why technology is critical to the continuation of a viable volunteer program. Reasons to Share with Administrators Volunteer Management Software The most direct means by which computers can streamline the management process is with the use volunteer database, made possible by one of the many different types of software. Organizations can create their own, if they have such programs as Microsoft Access, Filemaker Pro, or Lotus Approach. If your organization wants to build its own database, help is available. Gannon recommends visiting this site http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Databases. The site is a link to online user groups, Web Directories, and specific database packages.
Resources - The Telementoring Revolution: Three Case Studies the vast army of volunteers that exist in corporations, organizations and higher education institutions to help children learn through telementoring is both an http://www.ctcnet.org/resources/telement.htm
Extractions: May 1997 Telementoring is a nascent revolution poised for take-off into cyberspace. The technology, interest and need (both real and perceived) are driving the growing alignment of businesses, schools and technology developers. The recent April 1997 Presidents' Summit for America's Future, convened by President Clinton with Retired General Colin Powell at the helm, re-directed the klieg lights from the government onto citizens, corporate citizens included, and highlighted the need for the private sector to assume responsibility to help solve this country's social ills. Newsweek described the primary goal behind the decision to hold the Summit as one aiming "to mobilize corporate America and a vast volunteer army to rescue 'at risk' youth with tutoring, mentoring and other citizen service that brings caring adults into their lives."(1)
The Stockholm Challenge Award 2001 What if electronic teams could be formed so that volunteers from among this a research project, which focuses upon the nature of telementoring interactions in http://www.challenge.stockholm.se/projects.asp?ProjectId=15
TechSoup - TechSoup - Forums: Online Volunteering Q & As on practices by other agencies involving children and volunteers via the the screening, evaluating, and follow up process for direct contact telementoring? http://www.techsoup.org/forums/index.cfm?fuseaction=read&forum=2019&id=47961&cid
TechSoup - TechSoup - Forums: OV Stories since about 1998 when I became involved in a shortterm telementoring program for am very lucky because there are so many options for virtual volunteers and I http://www.techsoup.org/forums/index.cfm?forum=2019&fuseaction=read&id=46463
Converge Telementoring is powerful. We recruit computer usergroup volunteers, train them in Internet skills, and they help clients in public-access sites find the http://www.centerdigitaled.com/converge/?pg=magstory&id=5669
Electronic Emissary 1.0 IBM s MentorPlace Through MentorPlace, IBM employeevolunteers are providing students with to check out the Spotlights to read telementoring success stories http://emissary.wm.edu/index.php?content=other_tele.html&menu=Widgets
Educational Organizations: Teachers Project A very successful and welldocumented national telementoring program, online since Friends of VISTA VISTA (volunteers In Service To America) places http://www.tenet.edu/teachers/volunteer.html
Extractions: Resources ... Special Populations America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth : Helping America's Youth through mentoring, communication and more. AmeriCorps : The national service program that allows people of all ages and backgrounds to earn help paying for education in exchange for a year of service. Amigos de las Americas : Sponsors volunteers, primarily between the ages of 16 - 25, in public health and environmental projects in Mexico and Central and South America. Amizade : Not-for-profit organization with programs that offer a mix of community service and recreation which provide volunteers the opportunity to participate first hand in the culture of the region. Big Dummy's Guide to Service Learning Break Away: the Alternative Break Collection : Break Away's® Mission is to promote service on the local, regional, national and international levels through break-oriented programs which immerse students in often vastly different cultures, heighten social awareness and advocate life-long social action. Catholic Network of Volunteer Service : A non-profit organization representing more than 180 domestic and international volunteer programs. Learn about the different opportunities CNVS offers through the RESPONSE directory.
Community Service Resources For Parents - TENET Web Former and returning Peace Corps volunteers can also participate in the new Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Computing This was a three http://www.tenet.edu/parents/volunteer.html
Extractions: Resources ... Special Populations America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth : Helping America's Youth through mentoring, communication and more. AmeriCorps : The national service program that allows people of all ages and backgrounds to earn help paying for education in exchange for a year of service. Amigos de las Americas : Sponsors volunteers, primarily between the ages of 16 - 25, in public health and environmental projects in Mexico and Central and South America. Amizade : Not-for-profit organization with programs that offer a mix of community service and recreation which provide volunteers the opportunity to participate first hand in the culture of the region. Big Dummy's Guide to Service Learning Break Away: the Alternative Break Collection : Break Away's® Mission is to promote service on the local, regional, national and international levels through break-oriented programs which immerse students in often vastly different cultures, heighten social awareness and advocate life-long social action. Catholic Network of Volunteer Service : A non-profit organization representing more than 180 domestic and international volunteer programs. Learn about the different opportunities CNVS offers through the RESPONSE directory.
On-line Volunteering also known as virtual volunteering, cyber service, telementoring, and various other except that, instead of online employees, these are online volunteers. http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/development/ict/online_vol.htm
Extractions: Online volunteering also known as virtual volunteering, cyber service, telementoring, and various other names means volunteer tasks completed, in whole or in part, via the Internet and a home, work or telecenter computer. Visit www.onlinevolunteering.org and get involved. Online volunteering is similar to telecommuting, except that, instead of online employees , these are online volunteers Many organizations now involve online volunteers, often in addition to their onsite volunteering program. They host these volunteers in a variety of activities, including: translating materials researching specific topics preparing or editing proposals designing graphics or web sites preparing information for grant applications creating web sites managing online discussion groups providing pro bono consulting expertise in web site design, human resources management, marketing, accounting, legal issues, etc.
ICT And Volunteering successful community technology efforts, the involvement of volunteers has proven also known as virtual volunteering, cyber service, telementoring, and various http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/development/ICT/
Connecting To Success E-mentoring Project: Related Research youth who applied to the program but were unable to due to lack of mentor volunteers. Telementoring An examination of the potential for an educational network http://ici.umn.edu/ementoring/research.html
Extractions: This page contains information regarding related research and literature that support the Connecting to Success program. Many organizations and individuals have documented the value and efficacy of traditional and electronic mentoring. The positive effects that are established by well-run mentoring program can be far-reaching and meaningful. The following is a wide-ranging listing of important research and documentation of mentoring practices that have contributed to our developed model. Contents
