Yesterday and today we had 'Mentor Training', which is just an informal setting to get all the mentors together for question/answer sessions. Yesterday went pretty bad. There was too much confusion and the mentors seemed a little freaked out and disturbed. I really hope the first group don't get discourage from that meeting. This is a new project for us all and we are all learning as we go. The meeting today went so much better. We handed out information from the beginning, gave a very brief overview with the mentors position in this endeavor apparent. It made is so much easier to go over my small part quickly and with minimal confusion. I've set up a mentor mailing list: academymentors so we can quickly communicate to everyone.
I received the vote to make the mentor information page alias to be www.wou.edu/mentors, so Ron created that for me yesterday. Today I had the request to have a list of all the mentors and their contact information, so I added that as a link from the mentor page. I'll also be adding a function so that the mentors can post a note to their student's info page as another way to contact them. This function is already available to all admins from the admin page, so it's just a matter of ingrating it into the mentors sections.
I've also wrapped up the fellow's sections of the program. They have the options to grade ( with all the grading rubrics created as forms), rename the teams and get a list of all their students.
