Mentors and Mentees,
The success of the Global Learner project and Mentor Program is going to depend greatly on Virtual Mentoring. The questions of the day is What Makes a Great Virtual Mentor?
Please share your thoughts, tips and ideas on virtual mentoring. Have you been a virtual mentor or the recipient of virtual mentoring in the past? What has worked well? What challenges did you need to work through?
One thought - Mentors (and mentees) can share a small technology or lesson idea as a closure to e-mails (when appropriate). For example, yesterday my students loved taking pictures of their work. Later I will use their photographs to upload a classroom book to VoiceThread. Later this week we'll finish the book on the SmartBoard for the class to see.
I look forward to reading more ideas and thoughts on What Make a Great Virtual Mentor!
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Mentoring Teams,
First Kelly,thanks for this timely post. Indeed the success of the Global Learner project will be dependent in a large part to the value and depth of the mentoring process. I have received all 21 Mentee Logs for August, many teams are off to a good start. As we start our first full month of the 09-10 school year I know the upcoming logs will be even better.
I found an online resource that has some good talking points and suggestions for virutal mentoring. I will follow up this comment with a post containing more information and links. I urge all mentors and mentees to take a look at this resource.
Dave
I think the communication skills it takes to be a great virtual mentor are those it takes to be a great mentor plus knowledge of utilizing technology to communicate. Being open, friendly, a good listener, asking good questions, and providing many opportunities to collaborate are all important! Being able to bend time and provide more when needed is also a plus!
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