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The E-Mentorship Vision Network. A partnership between The New Hampshire Professional Development Center And The Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education (NERCVE) Funded by the NH Department of Education. What is the goal of the E-Mentorship Vision Network?.
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TheE-Mentorship Vision Network A partnership between The New Hampshire Professional Development Center And The Northeast Regional Center for Vision Education (NERCVE) Funded by the NH Department of Education
What is the goal of the E-Mentorship Vision Network? The E-Mentorship Vision Network pilot project will be centered on fostering community, collaboration, and communication amongst educators of the visually impaired so that students with visual impairments receive a high quality education from informed, confident, and connected professionals.
E – Mentorship • Electronic Mentorship • Technological support UMASS Boston • Organizational Support NHPDC • Linking Itinerant Teachers Through Technological Tools • Providing Communication and Professional Development
Agenda • Introductions • Presentation of Our View of E-Mentorship • Courses • Seminars • Breeze presentations by request • Case conferencing • Training TC Conferencing Tool • Demonstrate Breeze Technology • TC Conference Cay Holbrook • Supporting Interest and Needs of New Hampshire
Mentorship • We all can be a Mentor • Willingness to support someone in an area you feel confident in • We all can use Mentorship • Defining a personal objective or general interest in communicating with others on topics or issues
Example: Specific To publish an article To become a GPS trainer Pac-mate Trainer Example: General Case discussions Resource Information Teaching Strategies Challenging Families Specific Objective or General Support
Other Ideas • E technologies themselves • Curriculum Development and Design • Professional Leadership • Instructional design • Case conferencing • Resource Sharing • Instructional Strategies
E-Professional Development Online Courses • Braille Music • Low Vision • Sustaining Braille Literacy • Medical Aspects Disability • Assistive Technology Students MH • Others?
Breeze Presentations Short Instructional Content Modules Abacas Acuity Brailler adaptations TC Conferencing
TC Conferencing Training Sandy Smith 2:00 Coordinator Online Professional Development Northeast Regional Center for Vision Ed UMass Boston
TC Conferencing for Online Seminars • Demonstration Seminar • Cay Holbrook
Wrap upWhat will work for You? • Survey • Do I have a specific personal objective? • General interest or need for communication or support? • How would it best fit into my schedule?
What Interests Me? • Online Courses: Topics • Breeze Presentations: Topics • Seminars: Topics? • Presenting • Creating • Contributing
NH Requirement • What do we know about NH professional Development Requirements? • What do we know about NH Mentorship Requirements?