Tomorrows Professor Listserve 16 telementoring Catching on with College Students - What About Faculty? We are alwayslooking for volunteers to help manage the division and help in planning http://cis.stanford.edu/structure/tomprof/tomproflistserve4.html
Extractions: Listserve MESSAGES 31-40 Greetings: Welcome to Tomorrows-Professor students, postdocs, and beginning faculty in science and engineering at U.S. and Canadian universities). Looking forward to hearing from you. Richard Reis Here are the titles of the first 40 postings. Copies can be found at: http://cis.stanford.edu/structure/tomprof/listserver.html Philosophy Statements Learning Engineering, and Technology 31 The Academic Job Talk. 32 ASEE - New Engineering Educators Presentations 33 Breakthrough Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning 34 Faculty Time Savers 35 The "Baseline Themes" Approach to Increased Classroom Participation and Interaction 36 The Scientific Career Ladder: Strategies for Success 37 Consulting and Other Industry Relationships 38 Sources of Faculty Stress 39 The Designated Dozen: Twelve Books Every Science and Engineering Professor Should Have on Their Shelf, or in Their Department Office 40 Time Pressures, Faculty Development, and Institutional Rewards and Recognition Folks: One of the most important talks a Ph.D. student or postdoc will ever give is the "academic job talk" presented during the campus interview for a professorship possition. An excellent talk could get the person the job, while a poor talk will almost surely eliminate them from contention. Dr. Michele Marincovich, director of the Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning, has counseled hundreds of students and postdocs about their academic job talks. Here is her advice:
Extractions: Internetworking and Educational Reform: Are These Different Subjects? Beverly Hunter, Lead Scientist BBN/GTE Internetworking Cambridge, MA bhunter@bbn.com click here to download a pdf version Abstract Pioneering educators who joined the National School Network Testbed in 1994 described their visions and expectations of educational reform and transformation that would result from school networking. Then in 1995 and 1997, teachers, network coordinators and administrators in NSN schools responded to surveys that asked about their Internet infrastructure, cost and funding sources, applications, participation, conditions of use, and perceived benefits. Here we compare the educational reform expectations and visions of 1994 with some of the available data concerning the actual practices, conditions and beliefs in these schools at the end of the 1997 school year. We find notable differences between the original expectations and the actual activities taking place. Possible reasons are explored to help explain the differences between expectations and actual developments. Implications for policy and practice are suggested. In early 1994, pioneering people from school districts, state departments of education, universities, museums, other educational institutions and private corporations, representing several hundred schools around the U.S., formed with BBN the National School Network Testbed (NSNT). (Hunter, 1995). This research project was supported by the National Science Foundation's National Infrastructure for Education program. A basic premise of the NSNT is that
Extractions: QUESTIONS FROM A COMPLEX SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE Researchers in Education and in Complex Systems Analysis have a unique opportunity to help strengthen the U.S. educational system and bring new tools for thinking to millions of Americans. These tools can help prepare students to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex environment, both at home and at work. This Report both highlights the prospects for a complex systems approach to educational change and invites wider participation in the next stages of formulating a research and action agenda. The aim of that agenda is twofold: (1) to find the best ways to bring these new tools for thinking to the largest numbers of students in every area of the curriculum, and (2) to apply the insights of complex systems analysis to one of the most complex systems of all: our contemporary system of education. New conceptual approaches to the study of complex systems have been developed in the last two decades by mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, and computer scientists. They are being applied and extended by economists, psychologists, organizational scientists, and researchers in many disciplines whose insights are being scaffolded not only by new quantitative techniques, but by new qualitative conceptions of phenomena common to many different complex systems. Concepts such as multi-scale hierarchical organization, emergent patterning, agent-based modelling, dynamical attractors and repellors, information flows and constraints, system-environment interaction, developmental trajectories, selectional ratchets, fitness landscapes, and varieties of self-organization are becoming key tools for qualitative reasoning about complex systems as well as for quantitative modelling and simulation.
TECHNOLOGY PLAN projects in the district, one of which involved Literacy volunteers. presentationdesktop publishing email, computer conferencing, tele-mentoring drawing and http://www.pcsd.k12.ny.us/techplan/original.html
School-to-Work: Leading Practices around the country included student visits to IT industry sites, telementoring programs,an is a one-on-one experience, but sometimes the volunteers will work http://www.itaa.org/workforce/programs/stw6.htm
Extractions: our webmaster How to Be Involved - A Road Map The following selected case studies highlight types of involvement by companies, schools, government bodies and intermediary organizations in IT and school-to-careers (IT-STC). The purpose of this section is to provide examples of the kinds of partnerships that are taking place around the country and ideas, or a road map, for expanded involvement of the IT industry and other key players in addressing the IT skills gap, improving IT education, K-20, and providing work-based learning experiences for students and teachers. In addition to the case studies below, see ITAAs workforce and education web site for links to a wide variety of IT industry and education partnerships and resources. Choose from the following categories of IT-STC leading practices:
Using The World Wide Web To Build Learning Communities In K-12 This site provides a list of hundreds of volunteers who will provide their the opportunityfor students to ask questions of experts via telementoring, and a http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue3/gordin.html
Extractions: School of Education and Social Policy Full Screen Many are the conditions which must be fulfilled if the Great Society is to become a Great Community .... The highest and most difficult kind of inquiry and a subtle, delicate, vivid and responsive art of communication must take possession of the physical machinery of transmission and circulation and breath life into it. When the machine age has thus perfected its machinery, it will be a means of life and not its despotic master. John Dewey (1938) Social accounts of learning and human knowledge have led to attempts to reorganize schools as learning communities. This paper examines the utility of the World Wide Web for aiding in the construction of school-based and work-based learning communities. An ordered list of interactions is provided to characterize the depth of students' entry into new learning communities. Current offerings on the World Wide Web are then surveyed in terms of these categories. Finally, proposals are advanced for enhancing the architecture of the WWW to facilitate its use for the creation and operation of learning communities. Social accounts of learning and human knowledge (
CILT - Document Sans Titre Our staff and volunteers from the community help organization leaders quickly and 8Dobson (1996) reports on US telementoring activities; Ashton Levy (1998 http://www.cilt.org/resources/online_Learning.html
Extractions: The past decade has established the tremendous potential of global communications to provide information, enable empowerment and raise productivity. At the same time, society as a whole is extending its educational expectations, and foresees a brighter future for the active, lifelong learner. To prepare for the knowledge age now upon us, schools need to integrate technological innovation and the reform movement in education which is based on a view that children construct their own understanding of the world through active engagement with topics and problems that are meaningful to them. Many educational researchers point to teachers as the key component (e.g., Darling-Hammond, 1997; Goodlad, 1994; Shulman, 1987). This paper begins a discussion on how technology might be used for creating and sustaining effective teacher professional development. Teachers are engaged in exploring how information and communication technologies may help them accomplish their complex professional tasks. Educational administrators are adopting electronic solutions to respond to a growing diversity of learning needs. Learning activities, tools, and programs increasingly offer a mixed variety: face-to-face and/or online, synchronous or asynchronous. The school curriculum is being digitalized, and virtual universities have begun to compete on local universities' turf. The traditional textbook is evolving to become the e-book. Half of U.S. households now have a computer, and 41.5% have Net access (Silicon Valley News, October 17, 2000) affording the possibility of new school-home connections. All of these technological changes are transforming the social and intellectual roles of teachers.
The Daily Star - Online Edition volunteers would provide online mentoring through email or chat rooms to help youngpeople with homework questions or offer support through tele-mentoring. . http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2000/10/25/brite.html
Extractions: Ellis, a music industry major, helped create a "virtual volunteering" program for the college's student-run Center for Social Responsibility and Community. The project used the versatility of the Internet to open volunteer activities to people who might not otherwise be able to participate.
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Federal Focus, Inc. FIRST ANNUAL FEDERAL FOCUS EDMENTOR SYMPOSIUM Dr. Muller is the founder and Executive Director of MentorNet at the College of Engineering, San Jose State University. She has 22 years in higher education. She holds a B.A. E-mentoring ("tele mentoring " "cybermentoring " or "virtual mentoring") mentoring which uses the tools of that an organization has wonderful volunteers that can step up to the http://www.fedfocus.org/children/m_speaker-muller.html
Extractions: return to speaker list FIRST ANNUAL FEDERAL FOCUS ED-MENTOR SYMPOSIUM DR. CAROL MULLER Biography Dr. Muller is the founder and Executive Director of MentorNet at the College of Engineering, San Jose State University. She has 22 years in higher education. She holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. These degrees are in Philosophy and English, Education Administration and Policy Analysis, respectively. She served from 1987 to 1996 in Dartmouth's School of Engineering as an Associate Dean for the administration. Her previous work at Dartmouth and Stanford is outstanding. Her website is www.mentornet.net. SLIDE 1 MentorNet: Washington, D.C. Presentation What is MentorNet? MentorNet is a national nonprofit program which links undergraduate and graduate women studying engineering and related sciences with professionals in industry for year-long structured mentoring relationships conducted via email. We have a mission to improve the status of women in society and contribute to positive change for women's study and work in science and engineering through a revolutionary online mentoring system. We want to increase the numbers of women graduating with engineering, science and math degrees and technology-supported mentoring by scientific and technical professionals in industry help meet this goal. The program complements the kinds of mentoring and education that students receive on their college campuses.
Untitled FAQs about the ATA Mentoring Program What is mentoring? MENTORING IS the process in which successful individuals go out of their way to help others establish goals and develop the skills to reach them. time and energy by the many volunteers. involved in this from mentors and. mentees. volunteers were required to take the and new trainers will be culled from volunteers from the http://www.catiweb.org/downloads/mentoring.pdf
Directory Of Regional Consortia program for Basic/Advanced Internet, HTML and Sensitivity Skills for the volunteersof N2R Lab in Del Paso Heights and World Wide Web telementoring Program FYBR http://www.ctcnet.org/consortiadirectory/region9/n2r.htm
Extractions: 4731 El Camino Avenue CITY: Carmichael STATE: CA ZIP: HISTORY/BACKGROUND: In addition, a one-on-one mentoring program, "N2R Certified Coaches," for technical assistance at public access sites. The overwhelming response from all sites was the need for a web-based program that would provide individuals with access to job and life skills curricula and information, using a mentor to guide them through the process. Out of this came the World Wide Web Telementoring program, FYBR, which received initial research funding from the California Institute for Smart Communities. FYBR was thus built not only from focus groups and surveys, but from results of "lessons learned" research and approximately $1,278,400 of in-kind services from eRepublic, Covansys, Microsoft, California Institute for Smart Communities, Compaq, Marketing by Design, The Webcat, Westmont Construction, EMT (State funded evaluation, management and training technical assistance), Lucas Advocates and many individuals.
Building The Virtual Reference Desk Virtual Reference Desk will provide the needed infrastructure for telementoringservices, as Here, mentors/volunteers (see table 1) are matched via the match http://www.vrd.org/TelEd.shtml
Extractions: Building the Virtual Reference Desk R. David Lankes Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 rdlankes@ericir.syr.edu http://www.askeric.org/~rdlankes Abstract I n our schools, every classroom in America must be connected to the information superhighway, with computers and good software, and well-trained teachers. We are working with the telecommunications industry, educators and parents to connect 20 percent of California's classrooms by this spring, and every classroom and every library in the entire United States by the year 2000. I ask Congress to support this education technology initiative so that we can make sure this national partnership succeeds (Clinton, 1997). As more users - in this case K-12 educators and students - look to the Internet to meet their information needs, Internet information services organizations must be able to build and maintain their own services to meet these users' expectations. Organizations of varying types are using this dynamic electronic environment to meet the information needs of the education community. For example: Publishers are building Web sites for delivering product information to school library media specialists (Oryx Press, 1997).
Longwoods Publishing Corporation scientific directors to run them, selected over 215 volunteers to guide Additionaltelementoring sites will be established in Chicoutimi, Quebec and North Bay http://www.longwoods.com/hq/spring02/HQ53qchange.html
Extractions: Quarterly Change In this Issue Health Minister Anne McLellan recently announced the appointment of Dr. Rodney Ouellette (New Brunswick) and Dr. Sarah Prichard (Quebec) to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) . CIHR's Governing Council is comprised of 19 volunteer members from across the country who represent a broad spectrum of expertise and experience in health research and policy. Over the last year, CIHR has created 13 virtual institutes, appointed scientific directors to run them, selected over 215 volunteers to guide them, and provided funding to over 5,000 established researchers and thousands of trainees across Canada. Further biographical information and details about the entire CIHR Governing Council are available at http://www.cihr.ca/governing_council/members/governing_council_e.shtml. Health Canada will contribute up to $2 million to electronic health projects in the Hamilton Ontario area. The funds will support up to $1 million for the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS), a tele-robotics surgery project led by Hamilton's St. Joseph's Healthcare. In addition, up to $1 million will support COMPETE II, a diabetes case management system led by McMaster University. Funding for these projects originates from Health Canada's Canada Health Infostructure Partnerships Program (CHIPP).
Washington State Community Education WSCEA Lacey, WA Electronic Emissary Project A tele mentoring project that helps teachers withaccess to the Internet locate other Internet account volunteers of America. http://www.wscea.org/resource.htm
Extractions: Great links for educators and students! Choose A Topic... General Community Education 21st CCLC/Out-of-School Time Grants After School Programs Search Tools Arts Literature Math Science Multiple Subjects Other Parenting Mentoring Service Learning Volunteer National Community Education Association National Center for Community Education The Coalition for Community Schools ...where you can receive updates on developments in the community schools field and the work of the Coalition as well as subscribe to their monthly newsletter. National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Back to List st Century Community Learning Centers The 21st CCLC Program is an effort by multiple organizations and institutions to keep children safe, to provide academic enrichment, and other recreational and enrichment opportunities, such as band, drama, art, and other cultural events for children; and to provide life-long learning opportunities for community members.
St. Josephs Hospital, Hamilton, Hospital News a successful campaign, raising $30 million and our volunteers offered $20 Additionaltelementoring sites will be established in Chicoutimi, Quebec and North http://www.stjosham.on.ca/articles.htm
Extractions: Hospital News Aneurysm Surgery - A Canadian First Seeing the Action Within - A Medical First for St. Joseph's Rejoicing, Reconciling, Remembering New Capital Funding ... Long Term Care Web site Offers a Huge Resource St. Joseph's Records a Canadian First Mary Mercanti, 72, didn't know she was carrying a ticking time bomb. Aneurysms are a localized swelling or dilatation of an artery due to weakening of its wall. Rupture of an aneurysm may occur at any time. And such a rupture is usually a surgical emergency, because of the rapid loss of considerable amounts of blood, leading to collapse, shock and even death. Subtle clues are often the only warnings of this perilous condition, but Mary got lucky. Unexplained pain led to an ultrasound examination where the aneurysm was spotted before it could rupture. "There was a 2 cm aneurysm in the renal artery - the main artery - leading to her kidney," said urologist Dr. Anil Kapoor. "There was a risk of it rupturing that could have been fatal. We needed to repair it." Once an aneurysm has formed the tendency is for it to enlarge progressively regardless of any medical therapy. Treatment requires surgery that is often demanding, requiring a large incision of as much as 23 centimetres through layers of muscle and needing weeks of recovery. Hard on most patients, but particularly difficult for someone over 70.
Mississippi Teacher Exchange Web Site guestbook. Ask Our Experts . Email our experts with your questionsand our TeachNett volunteers will get back to you with an answer. http://teacherexchange.mde.k12.ms.us/new/mentors/mentors.htm
Extractions: The Tele-Mentors on-line professional development section: designed to provide teachers across the state a place for networking and interaction with peers. Subject area "Experts" respond to on-line e-mail questions. Participate in a real-time chat in the Teacher's Lounge . And while you are here please sign our guestbook "Ask Our Experts" E-mail our experts with your questions and our TeachNett volunteers will get back to you with an answer. Our Newest edition, "WebTools" - Hot sites & Tips and Tricks newsletter. This newsletter offers our alternating weekly offerings of Hot Web Sites for Teachers as well as Tips and Tricks for Windows 95/98 and MS Office users.
LINKS TABLE San Francisco Mentoring Coalition Goals are to recruit adult volunteers and promote TeleMentoringover the Net This comprehensive guide is arranged in three http://www.wit.org.au/projects/mentoring/mentorkit/MentoringLinks.htm
Extractions: Presented by WIT and About Achievement Mentoring Links "Discovering Mentoring" Case studies and research on mentoring. "Learn about Mentoring" A clear and comprehensive overview of mentoring, including a history, rationale, examples, mentoring myths and mentoring program tips from Peer Resources. "Mentoring and Career Education" This 1996 article by Bettina A. Lankard provides an overview of mentoring, who provides it, how it is provided, and what effects it has on students' career development. "Mentoring in the US Army" This article discusses civilian personnel mentoring members of the force (pdf document). "New Perspectives on Mentoring" This 1998 article by Sandra Kerka examines how the age-old practice of mentoring is being influenced by new forms of work, technology, and learning. "The Mentor Survey" Take this brief quiz to discover your potential as a mentor. A Complete Annotated Bibliography on Mentoring All published works available on mentoring, including books, articles, and research studies. Password access required. Available to members of the Peer Resources Network About's Expert Guide to Human Resources About - The Human Internet. The only site you need for featured articles, comprehensive resources, free newsletters, discussion groups and more on Human Resources.
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Extractions: [ I ] ï¨ i.e. One of the biggest barriers to raising standards is public reaction (i.e., of legislators, parents) when students who get As or Bs in school receive low test scores. ï¨ i.e. Parents, with the assistance of the school guidance counselor, can encourage their children to take the appropriate preparatory courses in middle and junior high school (i.e., algebra, keyboard skills). ï¨ icon Below, you will find a listing of today´s headlines. ï¨ icon By clicking on the icon beside each quotation, the reader can move to the quotation in the context of the full interview from which it was extracted. ï¨ icon Other words come from words used for medieval manuscripts: icon, scroll, cursor. ï¨ icon While you´re looking at the information you wish to print, you can click on the print command or icon. ï¨ icon (click on icon) If you´d like to be able to use the information you´ve found on the Internet on your own computer (perhaps to include it in a report or send it by e-mail to someone else), you can use your mouse to click on a command or icon to download it. ï¨ icon-driven menu It will deliver content in easy-to-use electronic formats, with icon-driven menus and audio instructions.
Comm590x Each small group team member reacts individually to the messages and volunteerswhat they know about how to 4) telementoring, accessing online experts; and. http://www.dwave.net/~jgestner/Comm590x.html
Extractions: Overview As a final working project for the UWSP Communications course 590, Technology and Leadership, we will attempt to address a strong desire by many in our school district to have a strong, ongoing inservice training program in the area of computer technology. This paper covers Merrill Area Public Schools (MAPS) technology plan, the survey we developed to assess technology training needs, responses from the survey, and our conclusions and recommendations. The Merrill schools have a proud history of leadership in computer technology implementation. That lead has eroded over the years due to many factors, including; obsolescence, newer technologies, and lack of computer support staff, as well as other schools adopting and in some cases leap-frogging the accomplishments we in many cases had innovated. The main factor though, as in most other publicly funded endeavors, is funding, funding, and funding.
