Tara Brown - http://teachmestuff.net/
John
Philipp

2 Feb 

• Tara is working with Mimi 
• Build a platform that matches interest based learners with mentors
• 1-on-1 relationship
• How do we do this?
• Start with a curated pilot programme
• Pick a few communities
• Recruit people to the community
  • Meet with coaches in person
  • Offer coaches to students
• Model:
  • No parameters
  • No minimum time
  • No required ways of collaborating (can use different tools, etc.)
• See what happens
  • How do people structure their mentoring?
  • Differences and similarities
  • What's the ROI for mentors?
    • Who signs up again? Recommends it to others? Why?
• Has developed surveys for mentors and mentees
• Because hosted at UCI some legal restrictions
  • Youth mentoring only possible in US
  • Outside US possible but only with adults
• Picked 3 pilots
  • Starcraft - strategy game (learning from video games)
  • Webdevelopers
    • Recruited 12 personal friends (twitter, carbon five, etc ... )
  • Digital Photograph Retouching
  • Next ideas:
    • Video
    • Spoken word

Tara - Ask:

• Help recruiting mentees for the pilot
• Start a conversation around doing something together

• P2PU mentoring
• Idea was to make "experts" available to participants in learning challenges
• Using jsfiddle and etherpad as tool to support mentoring
• Currently trying to add an off-line mentoring option
• Next steps of what we will build - an interface for mentorship
  • Let mentees pick mentors (and vice versa)
• Recruiting mentors from the people who work through challenges

Web Dev Mentors/Mentee Surveys

• Mentor sign-up: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/882JWPK
• Mentee sign-up: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NVPGCDJ

Tara Notes:

• Review Learning Challenges
• How are goals established individually vs. school curriculum