Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 5/16/2006 7:04:00 PM Author: Abbey from Australia Subject: also... I wanted to also add, Narelle and anyone else listening out there, that I went to a PD in Melbourne on working collaboratively with parents and the like and a really good idea for communicating with parents that I got out of it was; using a portable dvd player or laptop with the cds that you have burnt the photos onto being used at the front entrance of your service or at the sign in area for a continual slide show. The lady presenting it said that she was overwhelmed by the number of parents who are 'usually too busy' to stop for a chat were observed standing for 5 to 10 minutes waiting to see their child appear on the screen...so I thought that was really interesting! I would love to do something like that myself but with limited funds, you know how the story goes! I thought that if there was anything you wanted to say, e.g. important info re meetings, working bees etc that you could have a screen entwined into the photos solely for that purpose, just a brief outline. The possibilities are endless. I often think that many of the photos we take of he children that don't make it into the portfolios could be used for this purpose, rather than trashing them. In the case of parents not knowing who you are, you could place your own photo on there...like I said the possibilities are endless. If only my centre had one... (thanks for your positive feedback Narelle!) Name: Email: Subject

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