Hi everyone!!!! Hope you are all having a great start to this course and having luck establishing your contacts. For part 1 of this weeks post we were asked to establish professional contacts with early childhood professional outside of the United States. I first began searching the internet for early childhood organizations. I became unsure of what sites were real and which would offer me the best information. I decided to goto the resources that Dr.Klein set up for us. I have emailed about 5 professionals from the Global Alliance website. Two of the email addresses(Ireland and Netherlands) immediately sent an email back saying they were invalid addresses, one office will be closed till January 9th(Armenia) and I have yet to hear back from the last two address( South Africa and Georgia). I am hoping that I will hear back from someone soon. I think it would be a more sufficient experience through emailing professionals as opposed to listening to the World Forum website and/or radio.
For part 2 of this weeks blog we were asked to "immerse yourself in one early childhood organization’s website in order to get to know specific ways in which the organization supports the early childhood community and the resources it offers." I have chosen to stick with this weeks theme of connecting outside of the US and chose the website for Early Childhood Australia: The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization. This particular website offered a free newsletter which I subscribed to. I am hoping to learn about education in another country and possibly gain some new ideas and thoughts about how children grow and develop.
Hi Bridgette,
ReplyDeleteI to had some difficulties with returned email. I was able to connect with a professor in Sweden. I have sent more emails and hope to hear from a second person soon. Good Luck to you, I hope you hear back soon !
Brigette,
ReplyDeleteWhen you first started this blog project did you feel uncomfortable about contacting individuals you did not know? This was a concern for me...
Brigette,
ReplyDeleteI am experiencing similar issues with connecting with professionals from abroad. I will continue to be diligent in my search for professional contacts and simply hope someone responds to my e-mails and blogs.
In time everything will work out for all of us as a class.
Nicky
I love sites that offer a free newsletter. I am going to also sign up for this. The NIEER site also allows you to sign up for a newsletter. Check it out!
ReplyDeleteBrigette,
ReplyDeleteI feel sure you will find a connection. It is scary going global and talking with people we don't know. I enjoy meeting new people though, people like you and that's not so scary. Maybe because we have a class connection. We have to sort of look at knowing we are all in the same business. Look at all the business people that do this everyday. I feel sure we are making more of a difference than most of them are. Networking for children is worth it. You may want to check out the Podcast if you can't find a connection they are fairly interesting.
I too joined the Early Childhood Australia it seems very informative. I also have a friend who just moved to Australia so it kind of stuck out in my exploring of sites. I look forward to reading what you find.
Ginny