Mentoring Lily: Day 1

Today was the first day I mentored my colleague, Lily on how to use Microsoft Word to develop Language lessons in Montessori. She and I brought our laptops to work and decided to devote 30 minutes of our lunch break to this mentoring program. I'm glad we were finally able to do this. Last week I asked her what kind of operating program she used. She didn't understand at first and said, "Huh?" so I explained to her that since I use a MacBook, I use an Apple OS called Leopard and I assumed she understood when I told her I have a MacBook because she said she has an HP laptop so I explained to her that she has the OS that most people use and that's Windows.

Since I found out this vital information, I decided to borrow my sister's laptop which is a Dell and uses the same OS so that we both won't get lost when I'm trying to show her where to go and what to do. Anyway, we sat side by side and had our laptops open. Then I asked her to open Microsoft Word on her laptop. Needless to say, she found it and opened it. Then she proceeded to tell me how confusing it was for her to use the new Word 2007 version. She said she didn't know how to find her saved documents and print them so I proceeded to show her the different buttons on Software and briefly explained each function. I tried to make it as simple as possible for her. After going through the basics of explaining each function of the different drop-down menus of Word I noticed our time was up and so I told her that we would continue tomorrow since we only had 30 more minutes of our 1 hour break to eat. She seemed eager and said she looked forward to our meeting again tomorrow.

Overall, I'd say our first mentor meeting was a success!