Who We Are

 

AOL's Academic Assistance Center ("The best reason for having a home computer." -- 1995 Time Magazine) was born in 1988 and from 1993 to 2003 was the premiere Online Tutoring site for students of all ages. When AOL disbanded its Community Leader program in 2003 and the AAC folded, the volunteers mostly lost contact with each other. Some went on to other online tutoring sites, most left AOL. All formal "AAC" e-mail addresses had to be deleted.

 

A group of us, maintaining sporatic contact voer the years, have decided that we want to have an online home to rekindle the friendships we had at the AAC. Throughout the years we have supported each other, shared stories, our lives, and our sorrows. The AAC Alumni site is devoted to maintaining those friendships and kindling new ones.

 

There is and will never be any membership or participation fee.

 

Site Facilitator:     Hal Rosengarten      info@aacalumni.com

AAC Alumni Records:    Marilynn Smith      writeacher@aim.com

Message Board Moderators: (available)

Memories Moderator: (available)

 

How to Submit Biography

 

AACAlumni.com membership is open to anyone who was ever a volunteer in any of the incarnations of the Aademic Assistance Center (AOL Homework Help). This includes tutors, peer tutors, Knowledge Database editors, researchers, managers, and associates.

 

To be listed, send an e-mail to info@aacalumni.com including a brief biography (see samples on our membership pages). You may wish to include:

 

   1. Real name (needed for proper listing)

   2. All AAC names used

   3. Dates of participation as best as you remember it.

   4. Areas assisted (TP, Rooms, Boards, KD, other) and subjects

   5. Special positions or responsibilities.

 

You should get a reply within 48 hours unless our membership people are on vacation (May 25 to June 5).

 

Forum registration is a separate process from submitting a biography to the web site. Membership is either place is not required to participate on the message boards, but registered members are less like to find their posts deleted and more likely to reconnect with other AAC Alumni.

Contact Us

 

All inquiries: info@aacalumni.com

 

We have a free hosting account with GoDaddy, limiting us to one mailing address (and the advertising on the top of the page), Should the majority of people participating decide that we should have more e-mail accounts (and get rid of the advertising and improve formatting) we will have to pay GoDaddy $50 a year. There is no membership fee to anyone. Should we decide to pay for an improved site this will be voluntary. For a discussing of this, please go to the message boards and click on "Suggestions."

 

A Brief History of the AAC

 

1988: Mark Hulme proposes an online tutoring area to AOL

 

1991: Tom de Boor, AOL manager, assists Mark by establishing an online chat room dedicated to tutoring called the Interactive Educational Services (IES). A "Teacher Pager" e-mail service was created to get questions to Mark when he was not online. Teacher answers were edited and compiled into the "Mini Lessons."

 

1992: Mark starts recruiting volunteer tutors for the Room and Pager.

 

1993: The "Academic Assistance Center" is formed at keyword "Homework" Due to an increase in usage, Hal Rosengarten as asked to join to coordinate the tutors and to run the Teacher Pager

 

1994: The IES (Mark) becomes dedicated to online classes and Hal take over the responsibility of the AAC. Pat Burgess becomes the Teacher Pager manager

 

1997: The AAC reaches 2,000 volunteers with more than 80,000 questions asked daily. The supervision team expands to 8 members

 

2000: Hal is promoted to Program Manager of "Research & Learn" and Pat to Program Manager of AAC (2001). The Online Class program is terminated and Mark Hulme rejoins the AAC.

 

2002: Hal retires from AOL. The AAC becomes independent from Research & Learn.

 

2004: The Community Leader program ends. Mark Hulme comes back to run the revised Homework Help area.

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