Saturday, March 3, 2012

Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

This has been a fun and exciting exercise while at the same time being frustrating.

FRUSTRATING: I emailed over a dozen professionals listed on the NAEYC website: The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide: http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance and had most of them come back as undeliverable.

REWARDING: I found a website in Canada: http://teachers.net/mentors, which gives me access to childcare providers and early child professionals in Alberta, Canada. I was able to join their site and post a request for correspondence. I hope to hear from some of them soon. I will keep you appraised of any success I have. Please feel free to use their website, provided above, to contact them.

WEBSITE I PLAN TO FOLLOW:
National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
http://www.naecte.org/
(Newsletter:
http://www.naecte.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=29 )

I am looking forward to this assignment. This will be so much fun. I hope all my colleagues are having success and as much fun with this assignment as I am.  I hope to hear from all of you on your successes.

1 comment:

Criger said...

I was having the same problem finding some one to correspond with as well. I gave up on the provided sites and I decided to see if I could find some of my own. I came across a site called epals and I am hoping to hear back from them soon. I think that the site you chose to research will be a great one. I am going to focus on the zero to three site. I hope we will be able to find someone to talk with. I am looking forward to hearing about your progress.