Telementoring

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Definition: Telementoring
Mentoring that occurs through the Internet to provide content beyond traditional resources. Telementoring can range form a single reply for a question via email to collaborative projects involving student, teachers, and mentors. Specific commitments made from all stakeholders invloved appears to be the key to success. Telementoring provides the following benefits for teachers: Students become engaged in projects Students self- select topics that interest them: this is highly motivating Teachers and students are able to benefit from the expertise of specialists By working with a mentor to whom they are accountable, students learn responsibility

Related Topics
Virtual Volunteering Technology Integration Human Resources on the Internet

Links
Intrenational Telementoring Program http://www.telementor.org/

MadSci Network http://www.madsci.org/ Pitsco's Ask -an- Expert http://www.askanexpert.com/

National Mentoring Partnership http://www.mentoring.org/ http://www.mentoring.org/take_action/advocate_for_mentoring/ THe NRL's National Mentoring Center http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/index.php IBM Mentorplace http://www.mentorplace.org/login.do

InterCultural E-mail Classroom Connections [|http://www.iecc.org/]

Scientific Americans: Ask the Experts __http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm__