Sharing information and experiences in Conductive Education via the Internet

I think that the internet has provided a number of ways of enabling people to to 'talk' to each other when miles apart and one of these is the discussion forum. Discussion Forums offer an ideal way for those working all over the world, sometimes alone and sometimes with others, to share experiences and ask for suggestions to help solve problems. There are several discussion forums now for Conductive Education and none appear to be very active, unlike the former forum on the Foundation for Conductive Education website was a few years ago. Is this because technology has moved on, blogs and sites such as Facebook, Myspace are the communication channels of choice now? Are conductors too busy, too tired at the end of the day/week? Are they communicating in a more private way? I would be very interested to know.

Even so, I would like to note that the Conductive Education Community Discussion Forum has had some new responses to the question about what conductiors wear on their feet. Maybe this will encourage more to join in the discussion.

http://www.conductive-community.com/node/34

Earlier this year, Ben Foulger reported on his blog that there had been no use of the internet to announce the programme and record what had been presented at a recent CE conference in England.

http://geekconductor.blogspot.com/2009/03/cepeg-conference.html

As he said, this would have been very useful and of great interest to those who had been unable to attend. He asked for people to vote if they would like this to happen in the future and said he was willing to help set this up for conferences. At the end of the time allowed (which was a couple of months, I think) there were only FOUR votes (all for the motion), of which one was mine!

I know all those who work in Conductive Education are very busy and committed to it, but I hope they will try and build on these small beginnings to share the information and experiences which would benefit them all.

Do let me know what you think and of any forums you use.

Some other Discussion Forums

http://www.acersi.org/DiscussionForum.asp

http://acena.org/phpBB/

Please note that the new US CE portal intends to include a discussion forum on its website but has been somewhat delayed due to technical difficulties.