I had a talk with Mr. Bassill yesterday. I raised some question and he helped me gain better understanding on the concept of T/MC.

I fixed some problems on the composition of the main page of the program locator. Mr. Bassill was glad to see that and proposed many ways to improve the experience of the users who visit the website. Some of them sound really challenging and need some systematic database/dynamic web skills to realize.

A part of his suggestion is that the OHATS could generate online reports on the collected data in a real-time way, and the data could be sorted in a more organized and smarter way(e.g. by editor) instead of listing all the data page by page. I totally agree that these improvements are meaningful and important to the users, but I don't know if I can handle some of them, although I do have some database/program skills. I will do some research on that to see if things are viable and if my abilities can realize something.

Please let us know once you have any suggestion.

Paul

Here is the blog created by Michael
http://michaelcnt.blogspot.com/

I have changed the blog's name. Please check.

While Paul is back in Hong Kong, we've been joined by intens from Korea, and have had students from Indiana University and the University of Michigan work on projects for us.

You can meet our Korea Interns at http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com/groups

You can view a service learning presentation Paul has worked on here

You can see web quests developed by our January Korea Interns, here and here

You can view a presentation done by Indiana University students here

You can see an interview done by our Brazil intern here

You can review a documentation system web page built by a volunteer in Baltimore, using workers from India, here

You can review a map gallery hosted by a volunteer from Wisconsin, here

And, you can review a Business School Connection vision, posted on a wiki by a Graduate Student from the University of Chicago School of Business at this link.

These all represent the Tutor/Mentor Connection's aim of mobilizing talent from people throughout the world who will help create advertising and on-line education, that increases the number of people involved in helping youth living in poverty connect with the type of on-going adult support systems that can lead them through school and into jobs and careers.

If you are teaching media and communications at a middle school, high school, college or business, and are looking for a real world application for your teaching and learning, consider working with the Tutor/Mentor Connection and apply what you learn to help us in Chicago, and to help youth in the city and country where you live.