Friday, March 4, 2011

Establishing Professional Contacts

Honestly, when I began reading the assignment to establish professional contact from outside of the country, I started to stress a little bit because I didn't even know where to begin with this task. I started reading through the blog resources provided and started emailing places that I would like to learn more about. I sent 3 mails so far; 1.) International Step by Step Association-Netherlands 2.) Canadian Child Care Federation- Canada 3.) Center for Early Childhood Care and Development-Philippines. Out of these 3 one came back underliverable and I haven't yet heard back from the other 2. I will continue to send more emails out in hopes to make contact with someone soon.

I looked through the provided list of websites that is devoted to helping children and promoting a high quality education. The website that I chose was Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.
This organization informs, trains, and supports professionals, policy makers, and their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. In the previous course we used articles from this organization and I truly enjoyed reading them because they provided such great information and the website offers different options to click on and to learn about different topics and issuces. I also subscribed to their newsletter.
I believe this website will provide me with great information throughout this course and beyond.

3 comments:

  1. I'm also having the issue of not getting any responses via email. I have tried Facebook, which worked for Kristina, I beleive.
    The website you chose is one that I was looking at as well, although I chose a different one. There were a number websites that were very appealing in my opinion. I can't wait to follow your blog and see the information you are able to share with us!!

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  2. Hello Britanie,
    I also am not having much luck in establishing a contact, but will keep trying. Maybe persistance will pay off for us :) I also recall reading articles from the Zero to Three organization. I look forward to hearing more about them.

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  3. Britanie,

    I agree it is frustrating not hear back from people! I was lucky enough to hear back from two initially, but now I'm not having much luck with any follow up emails. Keep trying as will I. I believe it will be beneficial to hear back from someone.

    The website you chose to review sounds like a good one. I will have to spend some more time reviewing it.

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