Establishing Professional Contacts:
When reviewing the resource list for this assignment through The Global Alliance of NAEYC I have to honestly say I was very overwhelmed. The list of resources was numerous with many having hyperlinks to websites or contact information and many did not so making contact was difficult depending on your interest of the area you wanted to study. I was initially interested in the making contact with someone from Australia. That is a place I have also had interest in and is on the "if I win the lottery list of places to go" or perhaps on the " bucket list of places to go". As I was scrolling through the list of resources, I see the resource listed for Australia did not have a hyperlink for a website or contact information. I began to search on my own for the contact information and was finding myself becoming frustrating in not being able to find it. As such I wanted to explore the World Forum website. As I was exploring this website I began to feel more at ease with moving forward with this assignment. I felt more comfortable with the World Forum website as I had access to various topics with more than one country. I searched the website to find the link to the World Forum Radio and was not able to do so. However through searching the website I ran across another radio sight called BAM. This stands for body and mind and has numerous radio sights for early childhood education. I find this to be useful in my current work and play on using it. As I continued to explore the World Forum website I did find the links for WoFo T.V., videos and presentations. I feel I should be successful in completing the future blog assignments by accessing the World Forum website.
Expanding Resources:
As I explored through another overwhelming list of website resources I once again became more at ease once I looked through the Association for Childhood Education International website. I felt the layout of the website was easy to navigate and through my review of the website so far I find it has an abundance of good information that is easy to access in a user friendly way. That is important to me as I use online resources; being able to navigate easily and to find what I am looking for fairly quickly and simply. Otherwise it is easy to get frustrated and that is not helpful when you are in need of finding information.
Rhonda, I understand your frustration. I looked at almost every area and there were several that did not provide contact information. I have not received any responses to the emails I did send so I may have to look at the radio sight you provided. It was very overwhelming looking at the list of websites. I had no idea so many existed and it was difficult to narrow it down. I hope as you continue to explore the website you are able to do so without too much frustration.
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ReplyDeleteI felt the same way. I just decided to do the same in regards to looking at places that were on my bucket list. Besides, Kenya, I wanted there to be no language barrier when trying to learn. I know that the more layers we pull back the easier it will get. I think it might take a bit of time to email back. It is nice to know that your feelings echoed mine.
Catherine
I understand your frustrations as I too was having a hard time getting any contact with anyone. I also did find BAM radio and I love this radio I found it very interesting and I did lesson to some of there broadcast while I was on it. Great job with week and finding what works for you and what doesn't.
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