Mentorship project

So for ECMP 355, we were required to participate in a mentor ship project. I was paired up with teachers Colleen Glaude and Donna Fry.

Colleen Glaude has been an educator for 18 years. The first 5 years of her career was spent teaching middle school math in Maine, she spent 2 more years as a High School math/physics teacher in a parochial school in South Carolina, and the last 11 years at CHS in Pensacola, Florida teaching Math teacher and as a Technology Coordinator. She also teaches scuba diving. The school web site can be found here: http://www.pensacolachs.org/.

Donna Fry teaches two sections of Grade 9 Geography of Canada (one applied, one academic), Grade 11 Travel and Tourism, Grade 10 Learning Strategies, and Grade 12 University Preparation Earth and Space Science on a fully online public secondary school with over 1000 students in Ontario. The name of the school is The Virtual Learning Centre and their webpage is vlc.virtuallearning.ca.

During the last few weeks Colleen had sent several e-mails to me and I to her. She sent me a link to a website where I would watch podcasts and videos done by her and her class. The first video was an introduction to her class and was very interesting to see! Her students seemed very talented and were very impressive when it comes to technology. I wasn't aware, at the time, that you couldn't comment on the videos so I didn't leave a comment on this one. After this video I was sent a google document, however, it was sent to my hotmail address so I wasn't able to open the document. I e-mailed Colleen back asking her to resend the document to my Gmail account but never got it. I was then recently sent another link to see a second video and was asked to make a comment about it. The second video was more of a podcast called "Knightly News", and had the students act as reporters and report on various events happening in the school. I thought it was a really neat idea and I left a comment on for the video. The website for the videos can be found here: http://drop.io/pchsmentors/. I was also told to view and comment a third video that hasn't been posted live yet, but the link to the website wouldn't work. Other than the three videos, nothing else has happend in this mentorship process. I feel that, had things not taken so long to plan, this mentor ship experience would have been really interesting. I thought that Colleen's class was very interesting and even I would like to take a class like that!



Donna Fry had also sent several e-mails to me during the last several weeks. Our messages took very long to get to each other because apparently my e-mails kept getting sent to her junk mail. So unfortunatly not alot happened with this mentorship project. Donna had alot of neat ideas for me to participate with her class and all of which was only if I could attend an on-line session during one of her classes. Again it was unfortunate that nothing became of this because the on-line classes and my personal time/classes had various schedualing conflicts. I think that this would have been a very neat experience to talk with other on-line students. I wish that things would have turned out differently.

I didn't really have anything to write about until now because things didn't really start happening (Colleen's class) until recently. I think that overall this was a very unique experience and, had things gone differently, I would have gained alot of experience working with kids. I think that things would have gone better if we had a better time schedual and had concrete plans to work with. I think it would be a good idea to use mentoring with my future students.