Come see how we have married mentoring and the Internet in our wired classroom . The students and mentors utilize email, listservs, and the WWW to carry out the tasks of mentor and mentee. I have written a number of articles , some exclusively on telementoring, and others which include telementoring. Her readers, by special request, visit selected students at MBHS and become a mentor to a student. The mentor assists and advices about HTML, writing, and communication skills.
Every student gets at least one mentor and in one case ten mentors.
This is a truly unique and powerful example of using the Internet for effective mentoring. This project is a cornerstone in our Cyber English class. Read a Sample of the correspondence between the mentors and the students. O ur two Cyber English classes are also involved in a correspondence with two Japanese high schools in our Japanese Projects . This project uses the students' web pages to display work and listserves to exchange ideas in a forum.