Additional Activities

Many optional activities at the World Forum offer delegates opportunities to enrich their experience. As activities are confirmed, they will be added to this section. (To learn about new activities as they are announced, you may want to subscribe, for free, to our daily newsbrief, ExchangeEveryDay, by clicking here). Activities currently planned:

• 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 will be able to visit early childhood centers in Kuala Lumpur for an additional fee of US $75. Participants will be picked up at Shangri-La Hotel early in the morning on Tuesday May 15.

Participants will visit two centers and have lunch along the way. You can sign up for the center tours when you register for the World Forum. To register for the World Forum click here click here.

EC eTeaching: Extending Early Education with Technology

The World Forum Foundation has 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 will host 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 will be 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 will reconvene and be joined by additional leaders in the field. This all-day meeting will have several components. Participants will...

• 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.

Those interested in participating in this event should contact the EC eTeaching coordinator Chip Donohue at cdonohue@uwm.edu.

World Forum International Dance

A World Forum tradition is the International Dance that takes place on Wednesday Night. In an informal setting, delegates are invited to dance to contemporary music from around the world.

Delegates are invited to suggest songs to be included. Please send in the names of your favorite songs and their performers by April 15, 2007 to info@WorldForumFoundation.org.

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. A description of the projects funded from the World Forum 2002 in Auckland, New Zealand, and from the World Forum 2003 in Acapulco, Mexico are located on the links below.

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.

If you or your organization would like to become a sponsor of the World Forum Networking Project send an e-mail to Rodney Kenner at rodneyk@PademelonPress.com.au.

To learn more about The World Forum Networking Project 2003-2004 click here.

To learn more about The World Forum Networking Project 2004-2005 click here.

Day Tours and Pre- and Post-Conference Sightseeing

Asian Overland Services, a prominent tour operator in Malaysia, has assembled a variety of optional sightseeing day trips around Kuala Lumpur as well as pre- and post tours to many parts of Malaysia. Click here to check out these great adventures and then click on Welcome To Malaysia. If you find something of interest, contact Asian Overland directly and they will make all the arrangements with you directly.

Good Food Hunting in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur offers you a wealth of opportunities to sample and enjoy cuisine from around the world. For more information and recommendations, click here.