Establishing Contacts and Expanding Resources

As part of this week's blog assignment for my class on Issues and Trends in Early Childhood Education, I have sent e-mails to early education professionals in the United Kingdom, China, Australia and Canada.  I picked countries and professionals that most likely speak English so that language would not be a barrier to communicating with them.  Five of my seven e-mails were immediately returned undeliverable.  I tried to search the professional websites from these countries to find e-mails for possible contact with no luck so far.  I will continue to work on making professional contacts because I really look forward to learning more about early education as it exists in other countries and cultures.  In making contact, I sent a short e-mail explaining why I was contacting them and that I would appreciate the opportunity to talk with them about early education.  I can only imagine that if i were the one receiving an e-mail from someone I did not know that I would probably be afraid to open the e-mail due to computer viruses.  My hope is someone takes a chance, reads and returns my e-mail.   

For expanding resources, I already receive information from NAEYC, NHSA and Birth to Three and get information through facebook from them as well, so I decided to look into National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies and Association for Childhood Education International as I work with many child care programs.  I look forward to learning more through these organizations.