User talk:Kelly0327/Archive 1

Welcome
Hi Kelly. Welcome to Wikipedia!

I'm an online ambassador for your Global Youth Studies course. If you have any questions or need help with anything, feel free to leave me a message over on my talk page. You can also find help at the Teahouse, at the links on Questions, or on IRC. Gobōnobō + c 05:29, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello!
Hi, Kelly. Thanks for taking the time to virtually introduce yourself. I'm looking forward to working with you this semester too.DrakeLibrarian (talk) 19:32, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Good edits to user page
Hi Kelly - thanks for the user page updates. This will help people like User:AbbeyMaynard and User:Gobonobo make suggestions to your planned projects. I would suggest looking at Mentorship or Youth mentoring. The later article already has a flag for not having a global perspective! Take care - I look forward to seeing your work! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 19:11, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Suggestions
Kelly0327,

I think cyber mentoring could be a fascinating topic. Especially because its something this class is utilizing. A word of caution though, make sure to have an understanding of how you'd insert a global component into any work you'd be doing. Because of this, I worry about the viability of your idea for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America. However, you could see if there are similar programs in other parts of the world like it.

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 19:02, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Please post your proposal
Hi Kelly0327 - Kudos to you for creating your sandbox and posting on the article talk page (as a reminder - you should sign your posts there with the 4~s)! These put you ahead for upcoming assignments. I still need to see the three to five paragraphs on your user page regarding your plan for editing the Youth mentoring article. What will you contribute by adding a 'global perspective?' What countries might you explore? How do definitions of mentoring look different according to context? What can we learn about mentoring by taking a global approach? Please try to put these paragraphs up soon so we can give you some feedback.

Finally, I created a to-do list summarizing what we've talked about this week. Please check to see you’ve done the to-do items on my September 26 post on our course talk page.

Cheers! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 20:08, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Topic/Proposal Feedback
Hello! For the youth mentoring page, I am surprised it does not discuss mentoring programs, methods, or the impacts of mentoring on children. Those topics will be great to add to "Youth Mentoring" and definitely expand on the page with important information. My suggestion would be to try to find another mentoring program or two that isn't from the US or India in order to keep that global view. Maybe try to find an organization from each continent?Lhegtvedt (talk) 00:40, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Topic Feedback
Kelly,

Looks good! I think you have a lot of fantastic edits planned. The one thing I'd watch out for is material, though. It could potentially be difficult to find literature about the impact of something like E-mentoring, just because it's not a particularly old topic. Keep in mind that you're supposed to be decentering the global north and youth studies, so maybe try to search for a case study or two you could do about youth mentoring outside the US/UK/etc. A lot of the time you have to plan your article around the research you can find, not the other way around, unfortunately. Great ideas!

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 19:24, 2 October 2013 (UTC)