1. Technology enabled research mentoring Sarah Fletcher University of Hertfordshire sjfmentor@yahoo.com

2. This presentation aims… to examine the use of web-based templates and voice recognition software by practitioner researchers and mentors. to explore how research mentees might become research mentors by using technology drawing on a TLA Stage 4 presentation. to explicate how using multi media in research by and for practitioners might assist the growth of knowledge of practice-based and desk-based research.

3. The generative impact of research mentoring for practitioners The need for research mentoring. The need for research mentors. BPRS a lost opportunity… will we learn? Students as research mentors. Teachers as research mentors. HE lecturers as tutors and mentors. See the Bitterne Park Section of http://www.TeacherResearch.nethttp://www.TeacherResearch.net and at the DfES/NTRP account of peer mentoring by Donna Chipping & Rachele Morse

4. What do research mentors ‘do’? Examining archived research mentoring: NCSL project Chapter 7 PhD submission University of Bath Bitterne Park School archives Bishop Wordsworth archives What kinds of web-based resources are currently available to support research mentors’ own continuing professional development – What do they know? What do they need?

5. Building a Research Mentoring Commons Where do we start? How can technology help us? Who might assist a growth of knowledge? How do we tap into research mentor’s own knowledge through critical engagement with their (appreciative) action research inquiries?