Many optional activities at the World Forum offered delegates opportunities to enrich their experience. Here is a list of activities at the 2007 World Forum:
- Center Tours
- EC eTeaching: Extending Early Education with Technology
- World Forum International Dance
- World Forum Networking Fund
- Day Tours and Pre- and Post-Conference Sightseeing
- Good Food Hunting in Kuala Lumpur
Center Tours
World Forum delegates wereable to visit early childhood centers in Kuala Lumpur. Participants were picked up at Shangri-La Hotel early in the morning on Tuesday May 15. Participants visited two centers and had lunch along the way.
EC eTeaching: Extending Early Education with Technology
The World Forum Foundation launched EC eTeaching to foster the effective use of technology to provide for the education of the world’s early childhood workforce. It is well understood that education is the best hope for a promising future for the 1 billion children of the world living in poverty. Technology offers significant opportunities to extend this education worldwide.
The World Forum Foundation hosted a gathering of those delivering promising practices in the use of distance education technology to educate early childhood professionals. In keeping with the operating philosophy of the World Forum Foundation, participants were brought together to learn from each other, to support each other’s work, and to identify practices that can be promoted to improve the education of early childhood practitioners worldwide.
The initial gathering of early childhood distance education pioneers took place on May 17, 2005 prior to the 2005 World Forum on Early Care and Education. At the 2007 World Forum this group reconvened and were joined by additional leaders in the field. This all-day meeting had several components. Participants learned how to…
- Share their projects with each other through presentations and virtual tours;
- Identify promising practices, obstacles, and areas where more thinking and experimenting is needed to improve the delivery of training;
- Explore ways they can work together and continue to share techniques and strategies;
- Identify strategies for advancing the use of distance education approaches, particularly in areas of the world with limited resources;
- Share their stories in a presentation for the 750 delegates from 70+ nations at the World Forum.
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World Forum Networking Fund
A primary objective of the World Forum on Early Care and Education is to foster an ongoing exchange of ideas on a global basis. The World Forum Networking Project is designed to further this objective by supporting long-term projects developed by and involving World Forum participants from different countries.
The World Forum Networking Project was first announced at the World Forum 2000 in Singapore.
The primary coordinator and sponsor of the World Forum Networking Project for 2005-2006 is Pademelon Press, Sydney, Australia.
We are delighted to have the Department of Community Services, New South Wales, Australia, as a major sponsor by awarding an annual grant of $2,000 (AUS). We would like to thank the Minister for Community Services in New South Wales, Reba Meagher, for this most generous support.
Day Tours and Pre- and Post-Conference Sightseeing
Asian Overland Services, a prominent tour operator in Malaysia, assembled a variety of optional sightseeing day trips around Kuala Lumpur as well as pre- and post tours to many parts of Malaysia.