Here is the plan for delivering information about eMentoring as part of the eMentoring project I am coordinating for Aged Care Queensland, which is funded by the Dept. of Health and Aging.Online (via Elluminate)
Session One (One hour) What is mentoring?
1. How to use various functions in Elluminate.
2. Introductions.
3. What is mentoring? - brain storm on white board
4. How can mentoring be achieved in online environment
5. What do you want to achieve in the eMentoring program?
Session Two (One hour) How to be a mentor or mentee.
1. How to use various functions in Elluminate.
2. Introductions.
3. What makes an effective mentor? - brainstorm and discussion approach
4. How you can work well with your mentor/mentee in online environment.
5. Phases of the mentoring relationship - presentation and discussion.
- How to deal with conflict.
- How to end the relationship.
1. Introductions.
2. What is mentoring? - brainstorm and discussion
3. Tello stories of experiences of mentoring in the past - what lessons did you learn that you can take into this eMentoring project.
4. How can mentoring be achieved in online environment
5. What do you want to achieve in the eMentoring program?
Longreach 2nd June What is mentoring? Three hours
1. Introductions.
2. What is mentoring? - brainstorm and discussion.
3. Tell stories of experiences of mentoring in the past - what lessons did you learn that you can take into this eMentoring project.
4. How can mentoring be achieved in online environment
5. What do you want to achieve in the eMentoring program?
Break
6. What makes an effective mentor? - brainstorm and discussion approach
7. How you can work well with your mentor/mentee in online environment.
8. Phases of the mentoring relationship - presentation and discussion.
- How to deal with conflict.
- How to end the relationship.
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3 comments:
Online workshops 27 & 27th May
I had 3 participants in the first workshop and 4 in the second workshop. In each workshop, we were joined by one 'outsider' who responded to my invite on Twitter.
The sessions went very well-we had a good discussion and used the white board to brain storm some ideas.
The technology worked very well-no one had any problems signing in. The main problems was that the majority of people did not have microphones, so they were unable to speak. There was interaction with text and emoticons, but discussion was limited. Everyone felt the sessions will be much better when they can talk.
I may postpone the next round of workshops until the following week when I know all the headsets have been posted to participants.
Brisbane 28th May
I felt this workshop went well - we had 11 participants, both mentors and mentees.
It was good to discuss mentoring from point of view of mentor and mentee but it would have been useful to break into two smaller groups and look at how to be a mentor/mentee in those specific groups.
We had quite a long discussion about how this project is not mentoring as the participants are only working together for a month. I suggested that people may want to think about developing short term objectives that they know they can achieve in one month, and longer objectives that they can work on after the project has ended. There was tremendous enthusiasm and recognition of the need for mentoring in aged and community care. And most participants saw their relationships enduring after the project has ended.
As we only had an hour and a half, I didn't feel I had time to get people into groups and doing activities or such like. But for the longer workshop in Longreach, I want to be a little more creative. This is especially because I have two people attending who are under 18.
Longreach 2nd June
We had 5 participants who were mentees, and 2 participants who came along from the community to give us support.
The workshop went very well-we had lots of discussion and everyone took part.
The main topic of discussion was how we could communicate online, especially when we're dealing with sensitive subjects. We started off thinking that we couldn't have serious discussions online, that they had to be face-to-face. But then we deconstructed that, discussed problems with F2F communication, talked about how online communication can over come those issues, and then talked about strategies for keeping safe online.
From my point of view, I enjoyed how the session flowed - we were able to address issues as and when they arose. I enjoyed meeting the mentees face-to-face. Talking to them gave me a much better sense of their context and what they're wanting to achieve.
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