Telementoring Links

telementoring links
  • Telementor NOW!!
  • Telementoring Web @ MBHS
  • articles about telementoring in Cyber English @ MBHS
  • articles about telementoring by Ted Nellen.
  • Education and Community A paper on Telementoring
  • CEO Forum on Education and Technology

  • American Prospect Series on Educational Reform and the New Media essays by Turkle, Starr, Resnick & Rusk, Montgomery, Papert, and Veenema & Gardner.
  • AskLN Helping Educators use Technology in the Classroom: A teacher to teacher mentoring project.
  • For the past few years, Connecticut has used what it calls the BEST (Beginning Educator Support Training) program and a component of it trains mentor teachers. Overview of the BEST program for new teachers.
  • BBN Mentor Center provides a tour simulation of telementoring. Good link to other resources.
  • CoVis Learning Through Collaborative Visualization, a project of the Learning Science Program at the School of Education & Social Policy, Northwestern University.
  • Cyber Sisters, an educational telementoring program in science, math, and technology for middle schools girls.
  • CyberMentors a collaborative project at Murray-Wright High School and University of Michigan Connection which couples college students and high school students in a three year mentoring relationship which better prepares the high schooler for college.
  • Edutopia the newsletter of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, brings you exciting, inspiring stories from schools moving into the Digital Age. This issue is on Mentoring.
  • Electronic Emissary Home Page a project headed by Judi Harris at the College of Education at the University of Texas, Austin.
  • EPAA V 6 N 1 Dorn: The Political Legacy of School Accountability Systems
  • Felica Robb The Telementoring Revolution: Three Case Studies
  • Four Directions Indian EE Project
  • Growth Activities for New Teachers: Introduction to Professionalism is a fee based program that includes new-teacher mentoring ideas among other activities.
  • HP E-mail Mentor Program Largest Telementoring Program
  • ILTweb: LiveText: Readings in Pedagogy
  • International Telementor Center at Colorado State University.
  • KickStart Executive Initiative
  • Knowledge Base An Online Research Methods Base provides a tutorial on doing research. Learn about articulating the problem, gathering information for purposes of measurement, sampling, design, analysis, and summary. Add validity testing and a TOC of great online resources and anyone can write a research paper.
  • Links to Volunteers a database maintained by energizeinc.com, a consulting firm, especially for leaders of volunteers.
  • Mentor Programs Bemidji State U teacher mentors for teachers.
  • Mentoring TOC Mentoring, The Local Community, and the Use of Telecommunications @ National School Network, Community page.
  • Mentoring Links from CWoods @ ASU.
  • Milken system Distinuished Educator Telementoring Support System (DETSS). Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge (TLC).
  • MLRN's "Mentor" Journal
  • The National Mentoring Partnership is an advocate for the expansion of mentoring and a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide. A mentor is an adult, who provides a child, along with their parents, added support, counsel, friendship, moral reinforcement and constructive example.
  • NetPals A business to school mentor project over the Internet with fifth and sixth graders @ Walker School in Concord, New Hampshire.
  • panel 2 Establishing the Telementoring Project with Dorothy Bennett, David Neils, Dan Lake, Kevin O'Neill.
  • problem posing model of the Austin Independent School Distict to determine computer use.
  • SchoolNotes.com (sm) a free community service which provides a tool for communications in the community.
  • Scenario Thinking @ NEA. Education and Community: Four Scenarios for the Future of Public Education. Scenarios: Orthodoxy, Orthodoxies, Wired for Learning, The Learning Society.
  • Student Training for the Cybersisters Mentor Program provides useful information for any one who plans to be a telementor or mentor. Kids made for kids.
  • Teacher Magazine archives search for articles on mentoring.
  • Teachermentor.com A Website to assist Educators with mentoring, peer review, performance assessment, and staff development by Barry Sweeney, consultant.
  • Teacher Telementoring at SUNY Potsdam, Syracuse, and Great Lakes Collaborative.
  • Tech News article President's Summit for America's Future: Telementoring Now
  • Telementoring Forums fot telementors and mentees to discuss the topic of telementoring.
  • Telementoring for Women is a project of EDC/Center for Children & Technology. This is a three year project to support high school females and their community.
  • Telementoring for Women A HyperNews thread titled Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, & Computing.
  • Telementoring: 93 study David Wighton's 1993 version. The original with great references at end.
  • Telementoring: 93 study David Wighton's 1996 version. Heavily edited and altered.
  • TeleMentoring: 5 studies A Novel Approach to Teaching Undergraduate Computer Science at Univ of Penn. Use of Vidoe Window for video conferencing to match an industry researcher with a student.
  • TOPIC's Telemation History An early telementoring project in California 1993-1996 in 3 phases.
  • TOPIC's Telemation Directory The Projects TOC
  • Tutor/Mentor Connection
  • Virtual Volunteering Project's guidelines for online mentoring programs.