My MSECS Journey: Establishing Contact

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Establishing Contact

I made 3 attempts at contacting international early childhood professionals. I sent 3 e-mail requests to contacts found in our resources this week. I chose Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala contacts. I am most interested in establishing contact with the professional in Mexico. I work closely with the Hispanic culture and feel that connecting with an Early Childhood professional from this particular country would be most beneficial to me and my work. I hope to recieve a response by early next week. If not, I will proceed to the alternate blog assignment.

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Early ChildhoodMay 7, 2011 at 9:30 PM
Maxon,
It is quite difficult to establish these contact, I may have taken an easier route or maybe the wrong one, but through the UNICEF website I was able to converse with a lot of people some were in the education field and some were concerned citizens. Utilizing facebook, I was able to connect with people but identifying their porfile, and based on the conversation we all talked about the Ivorian people who were displaced because of politics and war, and some of these people are just now returning to their home. Cheryl
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Alice GuynnMay 8, 2011 at 4:10 PM
Hi Danielle,
I have not had any luck, but I hope to hear something soon. I tried facebook I know we will be successful soon. Let's not give up.
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