June 28
No activity at this site for the last three weeks.
Also see "Recent News."
This is a joint effort by a dozen former AAC Volunteers who wish to keep in touch using more than e-mail. We welcome and encourage any and all former AAC volunteers to join our group.
June, 2008: The follow Alumni have recently submitted biographies for our Member Page.
Submit your biography to info@aacalumni.com
For this site to be successful, we would like to see as many of the more than 4,000 people who volunteered at the AAC join. Please feel free to distribute information about this web site to former volunteer tutors, editors, peer tutors, and others who contributed between 1992 and 2003.
For information about how to join (open to anyone who assisted at the AAC), please see "About Us."
Welcome to the web site for former AOL Academic Assistance Center (Homework Helper) tutors, peer tutors, volunteers, Community Leaders, and managers. Here you will have a place to rekindle friendships, seek new opportunities, and exchange stories about those wonderful years (1992 to 2003) when we helped millions of students achieve success.
Join and participate on our message boards for exchanges of memories, friendships, and to find out what other AAC tutors are doing now. Perhaps you will find new opportunities, make new friends, and rekindle that "something special" we had. No, you will not have to answer students' questions.
We are creating a collection of memories, special moments about special people. The AAC was about the kids we helped, the smiles and bright eyes we created and the friendships that the "teachers" developed. When the opportunity to gather in person occurred, we flocked together to meet "in real life," to put faces to the names and to build up an affection that we though would never end. Whether it was at a Community Day, at one of the many picnics or social gatherings we arranged, or simply a few online friends getting together, there was a chemistry built by more than our AAC association. (Due to space limitations, we will rotate submitted stories. Feel free to post your memories on the message boards as well.) Several of our tutors are gone now, and we remember them here as well.
The AAC Alumni Web Site encourages you to submit your personal information for our files. You may include your AAC and AOL screen names as they were (and many of us had several), your real names, locations (state or country only please), as well as your activities as an AAC tutor. Did you handle Teacher Pager, Room, or Board questions? Were you part of the management team? Did you contribute to the Knowledge Database? We would also like to know something about you as a person: occupation then and now, family, pets, and hobbies. If you would like to receive e-mail from friends, feel free to include your e-address.
To submit your biography see "About Us"
As many former AAC tutors have gotten involved in other online tutoring activities (see the "Links" section to the left), we need to ask ourselves if things have improved in the years since the AAC ended. Would it be possible to ever recreate the quality or even improve on what we had at the AAC, admittedly the finest online tutoring center ever?
Join us on the AAC Alumni message boards as we discuss the possibilities.
As we grow we will be pleased to add new features to this site.
Where do you see this web site heading? Will it just be a social forum or could it (should it) be more?
Put your suggestions on the AAC Alumni message board.
On Monday, May 19, 24 guests visited the AAC Forum. We encourage our guests to register and join both the forum (simply by registering) and the AAC Alumni area (by submitting a biography)
May 17, 2008
Something to think about. A quote from Steve Jobs:
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
AOL designed the AAC "in-house," using a committee of people with no children, who had no educational training or experience, and rejected more than 90% of the suggestions forwarded to them by the AAC team.
Did you ever make a suggestion to AOL that was ignored? What was it? Share your memories on our message boards
May 15, 2008
If anyone is interested in getting board tools for our forum, please let Hal know. It would be good to have two or three people as moderators.
May 14, 2008
We have place the management documentation from May, 1995 on the "Memories" page. This includes:
> Teacher Pager List
> AAC History
> Policies
> Room Schedule .... and more.
Seeing PrfMaestro - PrfTrvl's posting of his original topical listing e-mail gives us a good chance to ask people to send in their memorabilia so we can post them in the Memories area. Submit to info@aacalumni.com
Also, if you have any web site that might be useful to those currently tutoring or wishing to get back into tutoring, let us know and we'll link to it.