Mentor:Keith Dello Russo
Mentee: JAy Lottes
Date: 4/27/09
Room: 82
I see Jay at lunch time...."Dude, my facebook is blowing up! I am not so sure that I like this because the wife see's my posts!" I said, "Why does she see your posts? Not that it is a bad thing, and you shouldn't hide stuff from your wife." He then proceeds to ask if i have some time after school to do a couple more things that we talked about and mentions that he is helping me out because my mentoring sessions are due by Friday. Well, not that he was going to guilt me into taking him up on my need to accomplish this mentoring task, I wanted to work with him because he was truly excited that he has a way to connect with old friends and wants to explore more. It was kinda neat, I guess you had to be there. SO COMMENCED SESSION NUMBER TWO.
1. What was our goal for the night? (facebbok, e-mail organization)
facebook
a. wall to wall
b. using advanced search
c. applications
e-mail
a. deleted box
b. folders
Jay wanted to continue on with some more basics of Facebook. So the first thing that I asked him is what he has done in 24 hours. I just knew once we had set him up that he would not be able to not go on. He had been on it at school and had a conversation with his wife about it. Jay and I also discussed organizing his e-mail. At the official check, Jay had over 4,000 deleted e-mails in his box and over a 1,500 e-mails in his in-box. Something needed to be done about this. Jay also mentioned that if we had time that he would like to do something multimedia. I had a proposition for him. I have made some of my PPoint presentation that are embedded with video and if he would be interested in doing something like this. He said that would be perfect. I simply told him that this would be in our next session.
2. Do you feel like we met the goal? Why or Why not?
I think we met our goals for the day and we even added one. First, I asked Jay to wrote on someones wall. He said that so far in facebook, " I do not like the wall, I could care less what lame things people are doing!" I replied, " This is a part of social networking." So he indulged me and I asked him to pick a friend so he could write on his wall. He did. I think that in time it will grow on him. At first it is a little overwhelming. Jay used the advanced search feature to find Keith Dello Russo. He found me and added me as a friend. Finally, I went to my computer in my classroom and sent him a quiz request. I showed him where this request would show up on his homepage and what applications are. He took the quiz "Which historical figure are you?". After the quiz he found out that he was Sir Frances Drake. We then went to his profile page to see that it was posted on his profile.
We then turned our sites to his e-mail. Oh my!!!! He found the courage to, really, in one fell swoop delete all his e-mails out of his deleted box. I was actually impressed. He even looked at me in an inquisitive manner and said, "I deleted them right? why am I keeping them for? Now to the in-box. We are using an older version of Outlook. I went though the steps for creating a folder in the in-box. Jay repeated the process two more times on his own. I them instructed him on how to move e-mail. He caught on real quick and had deleted and/or placed in a box about 200 e-mails within 5 minutes. He said that he wanted to work on this later and he was going to show me a clean box by the end of the day tomorrow.
I asked him if he wanted to learn one quick thing before the end of the session and he was game. I instructed him on how to create a group e-mail for our social science department. This took about five minutes and he seemed really happy yo have this simple and easy function under his belt.
3. If the goal was not met, what could be done to help to attain the goal?
The goal was met. It was actually cool that he mentioned doing some multimedia stuff because I myself am only so proficient with e-mail and facebook. It is kinda like we reached a point that he kinda has to play with it.
4. How do you feel about the process in general?
The process was even better that the first day. Jay actually seemed ready to go today and eager to learn. He was like this yesterday but today, he was already on facebook when I came into his classroom. When we were doing the e-mail stuff he got the hang of it real quick and he even commented that this was going to keep his box more organized. Jay actually took initiative a couple of time when I had to think about where a button was. He started clicking on stuff not, feeling that he was in control. This is important because on day one he was pretty much waiting on my every instruction. Today he wanted to show me a couple of things.
5. What do you feel should happen at the next session?
We are going to make sure he has his in-box straightened up. Then we are going to tackle embedding a youtube video into powerpoint. This has steps and is technical. I am afriad he is going to shrink up. We are just going to press forward. He can do it but he has to believe that the first time is usually difficult but that the more you do it it becomes second nature.
Mentor Notes:
I need to take video slow. There are steps and downloads for him. This will be out of his comfort zone. I can already see him, getting out a pen and writing down steps.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
First Meeting
Mentor: Keith
Mentee: Jay
Date: 4/23/09
Location: Rm. 82
The first official mentoring meeting went well. Jay is an easy person to work with. The only thing that I have to be mindful of is that Jay has apprehension of things that he is not familiar with. In other words he is not a risk taker. So even though he has a technology masters. The masters was a means to an end. It was not because he has a budding interest in technology. Jay though has seen his friends joining facebook and he feels left out but is unwilling to venture on his own in a world that he is unfamiliar with. The clashes with me that like to investigate and find out how new applications work. Nobody helped me make a facebook account, in fact it was quite easy. I have to remember that everyone is not me.
1. What was our goal for the night?
The first session was to set up a facebook account with profile information and profile picture with security settings. If we had more time to download pictures that he brought and send out some friends requests.
2. Do you feel like we met the goal? Why or Why not?
Yes, Like I said, Jay is a smart educated person. It almost felt more like he just wanted reassurance that he was typing the write material or pressing the correct button. It was also a success because we accomplished the goals we set out for in session one.
3. If the goal was not met, what could be done to help to attain the goal?
Setting up the initial site, profile, profile pic, and privacy setting were done. This was the main part we wanted to do. We were able to download some pictures which gave us an opportunity to investigate how to view pics and upload them (which he was not sure how to do either). I felt that we may have spent to much time on creating the photo albums. This was of concern to him as to which picture was on the cover or organizing the pictures in a certain order. I thought that this could have been done on his own time. I would have liked to show him some applications within facebook bu this was his time and he seemed happy to get it just the way he wanted. I guess next time I could ask him is this is the most important thing that he wants to learn or if he could do it on his time so he could learn more functions within facebook.
4. How do you feel about the process in general?
Now I sound like a broken record. Jay is a real easy person to work with. The process is great because Jay was truly happy to have "come to the 21st" century with his first steps into social networking. His questions were not really on the technical side. They were most inquisitive. For example, "do I press this button if I want to do this?" He is mostly afraid that is he does something wrong that he is going to mess everything up. He just needs reassurance. It reminds me of an example of this meeting. Jay accidentally closed the window and he started freaking out. He thought he lost everything we had worked on. I just had to reassure him that nothing was lost, once you save or download that the information is there.
5. What do you feel should happen at the next session?
I would like to wrap up facebook with showing him some applications, and sending out friends request, writing on someones wall and having him join a couple of networks.
Mentee: Jay
Date: 4/23/09
Location: Rm. 82
The first official mentoring meeting went well. Jay is an easy person to work with. The only thing that I have to be mindful of is that Jay has apprehension of things that he is not familiar with. In other words he is not a risk taker. So even though he has a technology masters. The masters was a means to an end. It was not because he has a budding interest in technology. Jay though has seen his friends joining facebook and he feels left out but is unwilling to venture on his own in a world that he is unfamiliar with. The clashes with me that like to investigate and find out how new applications work. Nobody helped me make a facebook account, in fact it was quite easy. I have to remember that everyone is not me.
1. What was our goal for the night?
The first session was to set up a facebook account with profile information and profile picture with security settings. If we had more time to download pictures that he brought and send out some friends requests.
2. Do you feel like we met the goal? Why or Why not?
Yes, Like I said, Jay is a smart educated person. It almost felt more like he just wanted reassurance that he was typing the write material or pressing the correct button. It was also a success because we accomplished the goals we set out for in session one.
3. If the goal was not met, what could be done to help to attain the goal?
Setting up the initial site, profile, profile pic, and privacy setting were done. This was the main part we wanted to do. We were able to download some pictures which gave us an opportunity to investigate how to view pics and upload them (which he was not sure how to do either). I felt that we may have spent to much time on creating the photo albums. This was of concern to him as to which picture was on the cover or organizing the pictures in a certain order. I thought that this could have been done on his own time. I would have liked to show him some applications within facebook bu this was his time and he seemed happy to get it just the way he wanted. I guess next time I could ask him is this is the most important thing that he wants to learn or if he could do it on his time so he could learn more functions within facebook.
4. How do you feel about the process in general?
Now I sound like a broken record. Jay is a real easy person to work with. The process is great because Jay was truly happy to have "come to the 21st" century with his first steps into social networking. His questions were not really on the technical side. They were most inquisitive. For example, "do I press this button if I want to do this?" He is mostly afraid that is he does something wrong that he is going to mess everything up. He just needs reassurance. It reminds me of an example of this meeting. Jay accidentally closed the window and he started freaking out. He thought he lost everything we had worked on. I just had to reassure him that nothing was lost, once you save or download that the information is there.
5. What do you feel should happen at the next session?
I would like to wrap up facebook with showing him some applications, and sending out friends request, writing on someones wall and having him join a couple of networks.
Mentor/Mentee intial meeting
4/16/09
As explained in the first post, there really was no apprehension of Jay and I meeting together. The only thing that was of concern is if I can get all my meetings in on time. Thursdays seem to be a good time for us to meet because they are on a modified schedule for us. School lets out early and we have time to meet. If we counted the Thursdays I would not make the required number of entries. This was the first thing that we talked about. Jay said that no matter how our schedules worked out that that he would help me accomplish this task, so that if it took 4 one hour sessions in row that he would do it. With that worked out I was able to move forward with him (writing these sessions up right now, you can see that I am going to have to hold him to this promise).
Here is the results of our first initial meeting. Please not that all answers are Jay's
As explained in the first post, there really was no apprehension of Jay and I meeting together. The only thing that was of concern is if I can get all my meetings in on time. Thursdays seem to be a good time for us to meet because they are on a modified schedule for us. School lets out early and we have time to meet. If we counted the Thursdays I would not make the required number of entries. This was the first thing that we talked about. Jay said that no matter how our schedules worked out that that he would help me accomplish this task, so that if it took 4 one hour sessions in row that he would do it. With that worked out I was able to move forward with him (writing these sessions up right now, you can see that I am going to have to hold him to this promise).
Here is the results of our first initial meeting. Please not that all answers are Jay's
1. What are your goals for growth in using technology?
I would like to be involved in social networking (i.e facebook) and I would also like some organize my e-mail boxes,
2. How do you feel you best learn?
hands-on and face to face
3. What concerns do you have?
Privacy issues with social networking
4. How will we communicate if a session needs to be delayed or re-scheduled?
we work together, so we will talk or e-mail if need be
5. What do you feel should happen at the next session?
I would like to have a facebook account and have some pictures on it
6. Other Questions:
None
Mentor notes:
Jay is a very easy going person and picks up on things quick. What seems uncomplicated to me may not be to him so I need to be patient, one of my short-comings. I do not want to make Jay feel dumb because he is unsure if he is pressing the correct button or not for example.
A brief overview of my mentee JAY
Jay is a long time friend that is a co-worker. Jay graduated from National with his teaching credential and a Masters. Here is the funny thing, his masters is in Technology. Keith, why did you pick him?, you may be asking yourself. Jay, self admittedly pretty much paid for his masters. Jay asks technology questions all the time. For example, he just learned how to attach a document to an e-mail last year and this is from a guy who has a masters in technology! Jay just recently got the bug to social network because some of his friend e-mailed him and told him to join the 21st century. It is hard to explain but Jay cowers at almost anything technology based. He explained to me that he want to join facebook but that he is afraid everybody will see his stuff and that people will bother him. I sorta told him that this is the point of social networking but that we could create a space and filter who could and could not view his site. When I told him that these things were possible his apprehension subsided a little.
Jay is a teacher like me. We get e-mails like crazy everyday. Jay has no e-mail organization. In fact at this time he has over 2000 deleted e-mails in his folder that he does not want to permanently erase because he "may need them". Jay also has over 1000 e-mails in his in-box. Jay needs help with e-mail organization.
I feel my job will be to give Jay the confidence he needs to use the talent he has as an educated professional. Knowing Jay for these years gives me a starting point. A lot of Jays fears regarding technology seem unfounded. I think that Jay just need someone hands on, to be there with him and guide him so that he will gain confidence in his skills.
FYI---this post and the next 2 post will be on the same day. This post is an overview of my mentee. The next post will be from our initial session that occurred on 4/16/09 and the following post will be from our first meeting on 4/23/09
Jay is a teacher like me. We get e-mails like crazy everyday. Jay has no e-mail organization. In fact at this time he has over 2000 deleted e-mails in his folder that he does not want to permanently erase because he "may need them". Jay also has over 1000 e-mails in his in-box. Jay needs help with e-mail organization.
I feel my job will be to give Jay the confidence he needs to use the talent he has as an educated professional. Knowing Jay for these years gives me a starting point. A lot of Jays fears regarding technology seem unfounded. I think that Jay just need someone hands on, to be there with him and guide him so that he will gain confidence in his skills.
FYI---this post and the next 2 post will be on the same day. This post is an overview of my mentee. The next post will be from our initial session that occurred on 4/16/09 and the following post will be from our first meeting on 4/23/09
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