In the 1990s I used wall space at the tutoring program headquarters to show strategies for helping kids in poverty connect with adult volunteers in on-going non-school tutor/mentor programs. I often led potential volunteers and donors through this information, and heard many comment, "I see that he's excited about this, but I don't understand what he's talking about."
So I began to use desktop publishing, then Power Point, to create visualizations, and visual essays, to share my thinking. I started putting these on this page in the late 1990s and began putting them on Scribd.com and Slideshare.com in 2011. I also enlisted interns to help communicate these through videos.
I consider these "teaching" and "planning" tools. Anyone can pull up one of my presentations and start a conversation asking, "How does this apply to us?" or "How can we use this idea to help kids in our area?"
Below are three examples, one from each platform. This is one posted on Slideshare.com, which is now owned by Scribd.com. This used to be free, but now people are being asked to subscribe.
This is from the collection on Scribe.com. There's a duplication between this and Slideshare.com. I started posting to both because of the different presentation formats and because one was free to users.
All of these can be remade, over-and-over, by students, volunteers and/or professionals. Substitute a map showing your geography, instead of Chicago, or showing a community area within Chicago, to focus the ideas on other places. Just give an attribution link, showing where the idea originated, and send me a link so I can help you draw attention to it.
Maybe you will be the one who captures the attention and imagination of thousands of others who need to be giving time, talent, votes and/or dollars to help kids living in every high poverty area of the USA, and the world, grow through school and into adult lives free of poverty.
Here's how to use this blog. Each article includes graphics. Click on them to get enlarged versions. Each article has many links (which are often broken on older articles). Open the links to dig deeper in the ideas and strategies I share. On the left side are tags which you can click to find articles that focus on the same topic. Below that are links to other web sites with relevant information. Learn more about me at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net/dan-bassill.
I combine 17 years of retail advertising, 3 years in Army Intelligence and 40 years of leading site-based tutor/mentor programs, the Tutor/Mentor Connection and the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC. Few people in the US have a similar depth of involvement and experiences.
I describe my work as information-based problem solving and host a library of my own ideas plus links to more than 2000 other sites which people can use to build and sustain volunteer-based non-school tutor, mentor and learning programs in high poverty areas.
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Just to let you know I dropped by.
Thanks Terry. I hope you and others visit often.
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