All About Mentoring Spring 2011 - SUNY Empire State College

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Table of Contents
Editorial – The Expertise of Humility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Alan Mandell
Imagination and Art: Children Cope with War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Judith Gerardi, Metropolitan Center and
Center for International Programs
Mentoring: A Poet’s View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Susan Jefts, Center for Distance Learning
Educating the Digital Citizen in the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Nicola Marae Martinez, Center for Distance Learning
Three Poems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chansak Suwanchaichinda, Long Island Center
Debra Monte, Center for Distance Learning
Changing Ways of Knowing for Transitioning Women . . . . . . . 21
Jo Jorgenson, Rio Salado College
“So They Will Honor You as a Human Being”: Indigenous
Knowledge and the Practice of Mentoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Jeffrey P. Lambe, Long Island Center
Upstream Gallery Exhibit, “Collaboration is the Theme” . . . . 28
Mara Mills and Celest Woo, Hudson Valley Center
Yvonne Murphy, Central New York Center
Mindy Kronenberg, Long Island Center
Blended Learning Online: New Perspectives and Practices . . . . 31
Sheila Marie Aird and Mary V. Mawn,
Center for Distance Learning
The Haiku Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Robert Congemi, Northeast Center
Mentoring: A Social Relationship, An Academic Partnership . . 41
John M. Beckem II, Center for Distance Learning
Interiors – Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Carol Warner, Metropolitan Center
Lessons of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Elaine Handley and Claudia Hough, Northeast Center
Education and Individualism: Some Notes, Some Questions . . 53
Carla R. Payne, Union Institute and University, and
Community College of Vermont
My Lost Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Steve Lewis, Hudson Valley Center
Reflections on a Journey of Learning to Adjust My Blind Spot 57
Heidi Nightengale, Central New York Center
A Teacher Reflects: Learning About Student Leadership . . . . . 59
Dianne Ramdeholl, The Harry Van Arsdale Jr.
Center for Labor Studies
Making Sense of Mexico: 1975-2010, Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Chris Rounds, Central New York Center
Found Things:
Empire State College Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
“Goin’ Mobile”: Designing for Mobility in Networked Social Spaces
A Review of a Special Issue of Open Learning 25(3),
Mobile Learning: Using Portable Technologies to
Create New Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Thomas P. Mackey, Center for Distance Learning
“Music never stops; it is we who turn away”
A Review of Dear Maxine: Letters from the Unfinished
Conversation with Maxine Greene, Edited by Robert Lake . . . 73
Tina Wagle, School for Graduate Studies
Adult Education and Politics
A Review of The Struggle for Democracy in Adult Education,
Edited by Dianne Ramdeholl, Tania Giordani, Thomas Heaney
and Wendy Yanow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Richard Wells, The Harry Van Arsdale Jr.
Center for Labor Studies
Innovation, Disruption and Higher Education:
Is There a Road Map for the Future
A Review of Works by Clayton Christensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Christopher Whann, Metropolitan Center
Honoring George Drury (1917-2010):
Reflections From Colleagues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Jim Anderson, Ken Cohen, Lloyd Lill and Wayne Willis,
Genesee Valley Center
Core Values of Empire State College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
suny empire state college • all about mentoring • issue 39 • spring 2011