Thursday, August 07, 2025

See new links added to Tutor/Mentor library

Below is a view of the home page of the www.tutormentorexchange.net website.


I started a "new links added" page in 2022 to make it easier for people to find new links that I was regularly adding to the resource library on the website.  Since then I've added a new links page for 2023, 2024 and 2025.

If you view this today, 8-7-2025, you'll see these as the most recent additions:

8-7-2025 - HISTORY OF THE WEB - INNOVATIVE DESIGNS OF 1995
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
This article looks back to 1995 and the beginning of the www internet.  
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8-7-2025 - WHAT HAPPENED? TWITTER,COVID, REMOTE WORK, & LOSS
https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/iHtGUPNYnZx06
This article is a reflection about how changes at Twitter, and caused by Covid, affected to learning communities and relationships of one person, and how he is now rebuilding.  It shows roles anyone can take to build a network of peers and friends. 
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8-6-2025 - UNDERSTANDING THE MAGA MOVEMENT - JAMES GREENBERG ARTICLES
https://jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-authority-rebellion
This link points to a James Greenberg article on Substack, titled "The Authority Rebellion".  It's one of a series of articles worth reading to understand how the USA got to where we are in 2025 and ways to try to undo the harm and create a brighter future. 
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8-5-2025 - ELECTECH - A LOT OF STUFF AND NONSENSE - IMAGINE CREATING SITE LIKE THIS WITH YOUR STUDENTS
https://eclectech.co.uk/
Take a tour through the electech website, which is an archive of "things" created over the past 20 years by the author. Open the sections of "silly images, animated GIFs, photos, animation & video and playthings".  As you do, imagine helping students create similar similar things, and host them on their own website, or a shared site.  Lots of inspiration, and enjoyment, on this site.
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7-31-2025 - IN THESE TIMES
https://inthesetimes.com/
From the website: "In These Times is an independent, nonprofit magazine dedicated to advancing democracy and economic justice, informing movements for a more humane world, and providing an accessible forum for debate about the policies that shape our future."
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7-30-2025 - PARTNERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
https://www.partnershipstudentsuccess.org 
From the website: "Based at the Johns Hopkins University Everyone Graduates Center, The Partnership for Student Success supports a nationwide effort in local and state communities across the country to bring evidence-based and people-powered support to all students. We bring together experts and practitioners in education, national service, and youth development to support locally-driven implementation of tutoring, mentoring, student success coaching, postsecondary transition coaching, wraparound/integrated student supports, and other evidence-based practices that support children and youth."   Visit the RESOURCES page and find an extensive library.
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These are just a few of the links added thus far in 2025.  See the list at this link

Beneath each description is a "Find in this section" line, with a link to the page where that link, and many like it, can be found.

If you did a Google search for this information, you might be able to build as comprehensive a list as I have, but it would take you a lot of time.  I'm not sure asking AI to create a list for you will be any more effective.  

But, that's why I created this library over 25 years ago.  It saves you time and expands your options. 

Prior to 2020, I hosted the library on the www.tutormentorconnection.org website, which was built for me by a team at IUPUI in 2006.  That site was much more interactive than the current site. 
 


Unfortunately, the site began to attract too much spam and had to be shut down. That's why I moved all the listings to the www.tutormentorexchange.net site.   As the video shows, the former site had some robust search features to help people find specific information.  

The current site also has a search feature, but it only takes you to the page where the link is part of a list, organized in alphabetical order.  If the name starts with a "w" you'd need to scroll to the bottom of the list to find it.

It's not ideal. But it works.

For the past few years I've ended my blog articles by encouraging others to adopt the work I've been doing.  Imagine a university, funded with an endowment from someone like MacKenzie Scott, hosting an on-campus Tutor/Mentor Connection, where students, faculty and alumni were doing everything I've been doing, hosting the web library, and drawing attention to it, and building support for youth-serving programs in their community.  

Everything that's now an archive could be rebuilt, making it better than before, reaching more people, and doing more to help people living in areas of persistent poverty.

If  you share my articles with people in your network, and they share it in their network, the message might reach receptive ears.  Give it a try.

In the meantime, share your own ideas and networks with me on social media. And, visit this page and send a contribution so I can continue to keep the current site and library available to you and the world.

Thank you.

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