Sunday, 9 March 2014

Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources


PART 1

This week, we have been asked to establish professional contact with an early childhood professional from other parts of the world. I emailed five professionals from other parts of the world to establish professional contact with them. And I did this by visiting the website of Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children and I used my Walden email address so they know am a student with the university. Most of the mails I sent failed as they said user unknown.
I chose professionals from Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, Ireland, Kazakhstan, and China.
For the professional in Nigeria, I also called her on phone and I was able to make contact with her. She said she won’t mind to be my contact but when I start to email her questions she is sorry that she might not be able to respond as at when due and that my instructor might not believe that I have established contact with her. I tried calling the professional in South Africa but it went to voice mail, so I will try again later. I also used my LinkedIn to contact early childhood professional and so far I have been able to get connected to one professional in the US.  
I am crossing my fingers to get positive response from him soon.

Has anyone been able to establish a contact yet? I will appreciate how you went about that.
PART 2

For part 2 this week I looked at different educational website and I subscribed to most of them. But I have decided to narrow my choice on the British Association for Early Childhood Education and the Early Childhood Australia. I chose these two because their early childhood curriculum is in a way in terms of the area of development and I work in a school that runs the British curriculum. I have subscribed to their newsletters and am hoping to receiving them quite soon.

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