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Welcome to the 4-H Mentoring Committee Wiki!!

The chart below is intended to keep track of new staff in a more efficient way; it allows committee members to add new staff and update directly.

Please see the Mentoring Committee recent meeting minutes in the sidebar. If you want to be involved, contact the 2010 co-chairs, Katrina Ellis at kle26@cornell.edu or Mark Wittmeyer at mjw16@cornell.edu. Or you may contact Kim Fleming, State 4-H Program Specialist, at kff2@cornell.edu.

We have created a letter for new 4-H staff in your district for 2010. It provides a brief overview of the NYS Association of CCE 4-H Educators (NYSACCE 4-HE) and the mentoring program which is available for new staff- Initial Welcome Letter for 2010

For instruction on how to update the wiki chart, please see the instructions below the chart.

District	Name	Email	County	Program Area	Welcome Kit Needed	Welcome Kit Received	Mentor Needed?	Current Mentor
Capital 4/21/09	Martina Yngente DOH 1/20/09	mey23@cornell.edu	Warren	Club management, cloverbud programming, Bike rodeos, Family and Consumer Science	done	yes	don't know yet
Capital 6/10/09	Steve McDonald	smm384@cornell.edu	Franklin	Program/Media Assistant	No	yes
Fingerlakes
North Central	Bethany M. Colas	bmc74@cornell.edu	Jefferson	ACT	Yes - Margie has kit	Yes
North Central	Sara Elizabeth Kessler	sek95@cornell.edu	Jefferson	4-H Military	done - Kim at NSI	yes	needed - idea to connect 3 Jefferson staff with one mentor?
North Central	Jeremiah J Maxon	jjm357@cornell.edu	Jefferson	4-H Defiant Garden	done - Kim at NSI	yes	needed - idea to connect 3 Jefferson staff with one mentor?
North Central	Kathryn Falb (4-21-09)	klf55@cornell.edu	Jefferson	Community Mental Health Education Coordinator and 4-H Youth Development	Resigned	yes	Don't know.
North Country
South Central	Raymond Friedrich	rhf64@cornell.edu	Chenango	4-H Program Assistnat	done - Kim at NSI	yes	yes	Ann Supa
South Central	Ramona Cornell	rlc263@cornell.edu	Tompkins	4-H Urban Program Manager	yes	yes		Brenda Carpenter and Megan Tift
South Central	Vicki Giarratano	vlg4@cornell.edu	Broome	Sr. Resource Educator	yes	yes	yes	Kelly Adams
South Central	Emily Roach	esc33@cornell.edu	Delaware	4-H Community Ed.	yes	yes	will find out
South Central	Heidi Tafel	hmt5@cornell.edu	Otsego	Agricultural Eductor 4-H Educator	yes	no	Yes	Katrina Ellis
South East
Western
Campus

Instruction/Explanation for Updating New Staff Chart

This is intended to be a 2 part method, using the wiki chart below and working spreadsheet (the master welcome kit spreadsheet). The wiki chart will be used for active entries, new staff who need mentoring kits and/or mentors. The spreadsheet will be used to archive and organize new staff entries from the wiki once they are no longer active (they have received both a mentoring kit and/or mentor if so desired), along with tracking experienced staff, who may be acting as mentors or staff who no longer require mentors, and retired staff.

Updating/adding new entries to the wiki:

1. Log-in

2. Select edit tab at the top of page

3. Add a row if necessary (right click on box, select 'add row')

4. Insert the appropriate information

In order to track updates, please add in parenthese the date you update a new staff member's record for the Welcome Kit and Mentor Columns. (If a kit or mentor is NOT desired, please note this in the corresponding column).

Master Spreadsheet:

The master spreadsheet will be updated regularly. The most recent copy may be downloaded above or see link in sidebar. It has several tabs to navigate through to access the various charts. Please email Kim Fleming (kff2@cornell.edu) with any questions.

Comments (10)

Thank you Jen for starting this for us. Hopfully, I will become more up to date on how to use it.

Kudos to Jen Loveland, our student, for getting this started. It's easy to go on and add a comment. Look under the chart in progress.
You just need to request access first from the wiki.

Great meeting today! This may be where we want to suggest replies for our "Ask Uncle Al" column in News-n-Views due Feb 17th. We can reply to Jody Maneely at jlm26@cornell.edu or write here: "What would you tell a new staff member about why they should attend the 2009 National Association of Extension 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA) in Rochester, NY from October 25 - 29, 2009. Since I'm co-chairing the Special Events committee, I would say attend for the amazing networking opportunities during the outstanding Special Events. We will be featuring a Northeast Trek through the Seasons on Opening Night, a Dinner Theatre on-site on Tuesday, and Wednesday we'll have a NYC dinner featuring food from a variety of cultures to be followed by a NYC Street Fair with desserts and entertainment "on the Street." Of course, my favorite is the State's Night Out a time to gel with colleagues from our own State - always a delightful way to spend an evening. Let's be sure to state that the NAE4-HA 2009 Conference's website is up at: http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/nae4ha2009/index.html
Jody let me know if you can pull from my comments for Ask Uncle Al. Kim

Hi Committee Members,
This will be a great help to us all. Thank you Jen for getting us on board. I can certainly pull comments from here for Uncle Al column as long as everyone can add their comments. I found that once I had a password for one PBWIKI it worked on all of them. Not sure if that's how it is supposed to work but once I received access to this one, I used the same password for the other wiki and got in. I'll get the minutes typed and see if I can get them on this wiki. Good call today.
Good luck to everyone. Your e-mail will also let you know when changes have been made to the wiki.

I also think that going to the 2009 National Conference is a time to find out what other associations are doing that work best for them. Being a new educator, I find that no matter where I go to a 4-H conference I am always learning something new and exciting that I can take back to my owe office. I also agree with what Kim stated that Networking. I know that from the 2008 State Conference I was able to meet a lot of people face to face that I had heard of before.

Thanks for the great call today.

Hello Committee,
I have added a page "Mentoring Committee Minutes" to our WIKI and have uploaded the minutes from our conference call. Once you get access to the wiki you can select that page and click on the file named minutes and view them. Good Luck.

Jody

Kim and Katrina,

I was able to copy your "Uncle Al" comments to a word document. I received an e-mail from Margie, so the rest of you please comment. Thanks so much!

Hi,
I sent out an email asking for all of South Central to update the info I had and I recieved an email that Garrett Fenton is no longer with Chemengo County. We can remove his name.
Thanks,
Katrina

HI Megan Tift would like to be added to work Wiki. I am not sure how to do this. I don't think actually I have the authority to do it. So, someone that is more up to date on this can you please add her?
Thanks,
Katrina

Megan Tifft is added. Katrina - you can now add folks. You are designated as an Administrator. Adding users is done under settings. Thanks, Kim
K

Thank you all that came to the mentor committee meeting yesterday morning. It was really nice meet everyone. I have uploaded the Mentor job description, Learning Partnership guide and a guide for the mentor and partner. If you have and ideas of updating this please let the committee know and also if you have any ideas for a brochure please let me know.
Thanks for all the work you have done for this committee.
Katrina

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