Being an Online Mentor: A Real Relationship, A Real Commitment
07:20, 3 December 2008
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In addition to researching and compiling information about online mentoring for many years, and helping to create online mentor programs, I have also had the pleasure of serving as an online volunteer mentor on several occasions, including:
- as part of the Sanchez Elementary School Online Mentoring Program, to help build students writing abilities and to reinforce good practices in online safety (2000)
- the Young Caucasus Women Project, for adult students from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the US State Department's Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program, to help them as part of their training as citizen journalists (2006)
- the inaugural Blogs for African Women (BAWo) Mentoring Project, focused on women living in Nigeria, to help them learn to use blogs as a method of democratic expression and empowerment (2008)
I have learned a lot by being a part of these online mentoring programs and share my experiences and advice for online mentoring here. The page includes a more complete list of my online mentoring experience, as well as how to find such experiences yourself.
For more information on setting up an online mentoring project, see the Virtual Volunteering Project's online mentoring resources, still the most comprehensive available.
Jayne Cravens
