List of Project Materials

Telementoring Brochure - is a promotional document available to those interested in the project. It highlights key aspects of the Telementoring project. It is available via e-mail. Send a request for Telementoring Brochure at cct@ edc.org

Telementor Recruitment Brochure - highlights Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Science from the perspective of potential mentors. The Mentor Recruitment Brochure is available via e-mail. Send a request for Telementor Brochure atcct@ edc.org or fill out a Mentor Application at this site.

Orientation Video - is approximately 15 minutes in length and describes the nature and potential of the Telementoring Project from the perspective of participating students and mentors. The primary purpose of the video is to demonstrate the range of experiences possible in on-line relationships and simultaneously communicating that mentors have many dimensions and are willing to discuss a variety of issues and activities related to being professional women and women in science. The primary audience for the video is young women of high school age in science and technology courses, their parents, and their teachers. Others who may wish to view the video include a wide range of professional organizations and educational institutions who are interested in the Telementoring Project and those who are seeking to implement telementoring in their own settings. The video provides teachers serving as Telementoring project liaisons with the necessary tools for best representing the spirit and possibilities of the project to young people in their classes.

A Quick Guide To Getting Started with Telementoring 1995-96 - This guide is designed primarily for teachers serving as Project Liaisons in the Telementoring project. It is organized in accordance with the liaison's major responsibilities and includes pertinent materials for initiating Telementoring in schools. Materials and activities included in the Quick Guide are based on a year's worth of pilot testing conducted with volunteer mentors and pre-engineering students at a technical high school in New York City. The guide is intended to complement and support discussions and activities that occur on-line in the space reserved for project teachers.

A Quick Guide To Starting and Staying with Telementoring - This guide is the 1996-97 updated version of the previous guide, designed primarily for teachers and those serving as Project Liaisons in the Telementoring project.

Mentor Profile is a tool developed for Project Liaisons. The Mentor Profile highlights information gathered from a mentor's applications that is useful in matching a mentor with a student.

Student Orientation Checklist for Project Liaisons list the materials included as part of the Student Orientation Packet.

Parent/Family Letter describes the Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Computing, and invites parent involvement in the project.

Mentoring Materials

Telementoring Guide - details what program participants can expect during the project. It is primarily designed to give mentors and students background information about what to expect as participants in the Telementoring Young Women in Science, Engineering, and Computing program. It is also a resource for educators, parents, and others who are interested in learning more about what is involved in establishing on-line mentoring environments that bring together young people and practicing professionals. Currently this guide is only available to project participants.

Netiquette: tips for on-line communication - provides useful tips that will help ensure that on-line mentoring exchanges run smoothly for all of the participants.

Spaces and Places of the Telementoring Environment: Guide to On-line Communication (for students and mentors) provides information about the technical aspects of the project.

Spaces and Places (primarily for students) is the 1996-97 update of the previous guide and provides basic information about electronic mail as well as the technical aspects specific to the project.

Mentor Prep Exchange: Guide to On-line Telementor Training - has been developed for on-line mentor trainers in the Telementoring project. The guide contains on-line discussion starters that mentor trainers are expected to post to the group of women that they have assumed responsibility for training, scenarios that illuminate issues relevant to young women, examples of previous postings that give a sense of how a topic has been approached before, and tips for effective on-line conversations.

Mentor Trainer Letter - welcomes trainers to the project, describes the goals Mentor Preparation and defines the trainer's role in preparing potential Telementors.

Mentor Prep Exchange: Mentor Packet - includes: a letter welcoming Telementors to the project, the Telementoring Brochure, the Telementoring Guide, the Spaces and Places Guide for Telementors; and the Netiquette Guide.

Student Orientation & Preparation: Student Packet - includes: a letter welcoming students to the project, the Telementoring Guide, the Spaces and Places Guide for Students; the Netiquette Guide, and the Computer Network Use Agreement.

Computer Network Use Agreement - insures that when students and mentors join the program, they do so with the understanding that they are to behave appropriately and participate regularly in on-line discussions and conversations. It also helps to assuage parental fears about network use and misuse. All students and their parents/guardians must sign the student agreement if the young women is to participate in the program. Mentors may not be assigned to students who have not returned this signed document. Mentors sign a similar agreement of their own.

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