CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Sunday
10:00 — 11:30 Session J.8
Cybermentoring:
How We Grow (and were grown as) Writing Teacher
BC 202
Trish Harris, moderator
Trish Harris
The Internet as Mentoring Playground:
Sharing Practice and Growing Mentor/Teachers
I will discuss transporting a mentoring system originating in a
large state university system from a face-to-face environment, to
an environment for gifted youth, and ultimately to a community
college environment for traditional and nontraditional students. I will
compare the ways diverse academic contexts dictate the available and
created mentoring constructs. I will also timeline her own mentee and
mentor-development experiences as a way of describing her evolving
bootstrapping praxis.
Michael Day
Cybermentoring:
Stories I Have Lived
I discuss 10 years of cybermentoring by email and on the MOO,
discussing some examples of success stories from our field. Finally,
I illustrate how collaborative projects and publications can emerge
from such cybermentoring relationships.
Jade Gorman
Transporting a Traditional Teacher Mentoring Model
to Distance Education:
Administrative Considerations
Gorman summarizes the traditional mentoring approach for a
face-to-face program in a large state university (specifically the
University of Maryland, College Park) to include infrastructure,
programmatic assessment, pedagogical theory, and the sense
of community generated in such an environment. She then highlights
elements successfully transported to Internet distance education
programs, highlighting how distance education transfigures or
transmogrifies crucial elements.
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