WELCOME TO CONDUCTION
Conduction creates a think tank for the world of Conductive Education. It begins its public-service role by bringing together online resource bases for those who use or seek to understand Conductive Education, those who work in it or help provide it, and anybody ‘outside’ who just wants to know.
A resource base for all
Conduction is an independent charity, started in the United Kingdom but having world-wide scope. It will not itself be providing direct conductive services to clients, having chosen specifically to exclude this possibility in its founding constitution. Its concern will be knowledge and information, and much of what it does will depend upon electronic communication.
It will be open to material in any language.
If you would like to be kept in touch with future news and developments, then please enter your email address where it says LET US NOTIFY YOU OF UPDATES in the right-hand side-bar. Logging in here also gives access to commenting on what you read here.
New – Conductive Education Blog Search
You can now search all of the Conductive Education blogs featured on The Conductive Post! Simply use the search box (snappily titled ‘Search CE Blogs for’) on the right hand side of the Conduction website or go straight to the search page. Please note that you must have Javascript turned on to use the search.
Any problems, please add a comment below.
2011 ACENA conference announcement
Welcome to Hollywood! Announcement! Announcement!
The 2011 ACENA conference will be held in the Los Angeles, California area on Thursday, August 25 and Friday, August 26. So, mark your calendars, find your sun screen, put on your sun glasses and plan a long weekend in So. Cal.
This is your opportunity to connect with the other CE professionals and programs throughout North America. Past conferences have been amazing. We have heard from such notable speakers as Dr. Erzsi Balogh and Dr. Franz Schaffhauser from the Peto Institute as well as Andrew Sutton and Dr. Roberta O’Shea. We have also learned a great deal from the professionals within the ACENA organization. Topics have ranged from technical aspects of CE, fund raising and marketing, new happenings at Peto, and the status on on-going CE research. One of the best aspects of the conference is the opportunity to share with each other successful ideas that can have a positive impact on each of our programs. The 2011 conference will carry on the excellence of the past conferences. You won’t want to miss it.
We would appreciate ideas for presentation sessions any ACENA members would like to contribute and will be distributing a proposal form in the near future. Be prepared for a great conference and we look forward to seeing you in LA.
[Find the original information here]
The Conductive Post
A blog of blogs
The Conductive Post is a centralised resource for accessing the CE blogosphere:
http://www.e-conduction.org/TheConductivePost/
The Post is a real-time, open-access update of what is published on CE blogs around the world – and more.
How does it work?
Completely automatically, just like the blog links that many sites already display. As new blog postings appear on The Post, the latest one will move up to take the lead position, and everyone else will shuffle back a place. You will see that each blog has its two most recent postings featured, one below the other.
There is an exception to this. For the moment at least, ‘guest postings’ will stand continuously at the lead position.
The Post reflects what comes on line. Already this is a pretty diverse range of positions and opinions. There is no party line, on any matter. If divergent opinions emerge, so well and good. CE is short of many things, and an important one of these is DEBATE. What will happen as further posts emerge? We shall see.
Is anyone missed out? Almost certainly. Please let us know.
There is a place lower down the page for less frequent bloggers, and for newbies to get established.
Instructions for readers? There are none. The Post is as self-explanatory as it can be…
Benefits?
Many of those who try to find out about Conductive Education on the Internet may not find the CE blogs, for all their value and collective impact, Bringing CE blogs together in this way (cyber-conduction!) should make them more visible and increase their visitor-traffic, offering bewildered wanderers in the CE cyber-jungle the best presently available guide to current hot spots for public concern and discussion.
The Post is not republishing blogs.It is simply a search engine. The actual blogs are to be found on their own sites. Click across from The Post to read the complete blogs. If you have comments to make on what you find there, make these on the original blog postings.
And here is a bonus: use the Search box at the top of the page and it will look back into all the blogs listed here, for nearly a year.
Guest postings
From time to time The Post will publish guest postings from people who have something to say but no blogs of their own – yet – or who are perhaps not directly involved in the CE sector.
These guest posts will be archived on site and like the rest of The Post, open to the attention of search engines.
You may comment upon these guest postings if you wish, at the foot of the relevant page.
What do you think of The Conductive Post?
Any comments and suggestions about The Post:
http://www.e-conduction.org/TheConductivePost/?p=1638 .
Virtual Library launch
It is with pleasure that we are able to announce the launch of the searchable online Virtual Library of Conductive Education. This project extends the excellent work done by Gill Maguire in collating CE related information available on the Internet and enables you to search by different criteria and view and/or print the results.
Gill is in the process of moving all of the information that she has been collating from its previous home on her blog into the new system and this will be an ongoing process. There are currently well over 100 records already entered and ready to be found!
This project also includes a ‘Repository’ system that will be used to store unpublished CE-related papers and documents and enable them to be searched. This project is still in its initial stages and there are no documents currently in the system, however we hope to start adding them soon and will update the Conduction site when this happens.
You can access the Virtual Library using the following URL – http://www.e-conduction.org/virtuallibrary – or use the link on the left hand side of the Conduction website. You can also view Gill’s post on her blog.
If you have any problems or queries, please ‘comment’ on this post and we will look into it.
Server move complete
Despite the best efforts of our hosting company, we have managed to move servers. Continue reading »
Important – server move
Due to a server move, you may not be able to access the Conduction website for some of Saturday, 04/09/2010. Continue reading »