The EMentorship Vision Network

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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

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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.

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E Mentorship

• Electronic Mentorship
• Technological support UMASS Boston
• Organizational Support NHPDC
• Linking Itinerant Teachers Through Technological
  Tools
• Providing Communication and Professional
  Development

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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

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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

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Specific Objective or General Support

• Example Specific
• To publish an article
• To become a GPS trainer
• Pac-mate Trainer

• Example General
• Case discussions
• Resource Information
• Teaching Strategies
• Challenging Families

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Other Ideas

• E technologies themselves
• Curriculum Development and Design
• Professional Leadership
• Instructional design
• Case conferencing
• Resource Sharing
• Instructional Strategies

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E-Professional Development

• Online Courses
• Braille Music
• Low Vision
• Sustaining Braille Literacy
• Medical Aspects Disability
• Assistive Technology Students MH
• Others?

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Breeze Presentations

• Short Instructional Content Modules
• Abacas
• Acuity
• Brailler adaptations
• TC Conferencing

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TC Conferencing Training

• Sandy Smith 200
• Coordinator
• Online Professional Development
• Northeast Regional Center for Vision Ed
• UMass Boston

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TC Conferencing for Online Seminars

• Demonstration Seminar
• Cay Holbrook

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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?

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What Interests Me?

• Online Courses Topics
• Breeze Presentations Topics
• Seminars Topics?
• Presenting
• Creating
• Contributing

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NH Requirement

• What do we know about NH professional Development
  Requirements?
• What do we know about NH Mentorship Requirements?