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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.

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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 .

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.

We apologise for the extended outage, this was due to a couple of errors that occurred and took time to rectify.  Everything should be back to normal now, if you do find any problems, please let us know either by commenting on this post or through email.

Regards

Conduction team.

We apologise for the inconvenience, however the move is necessary to ensure that we are running the most up to date and secure version of the software.  We will do our best to minimise the disruption.

Please note that emails may also be affected during this time.

After the move is complete, no action is required on your part, the website and email addresses will remain the same.

Regards

Conduction team.

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.

The website www.e-conduction.org brings together some of the existing public resources on Conductive Education worldwide, as a first step in creating a unified, ‘one-stop’ information resource for the field. It also makes a few suggestions for further possible activities in the immediate future – but we look forward to receiving YOUR proposals for might be done here. Meanwhile, come inside and look around.

This site will be in state of permanent change – it will soon begin to fill and expand. Some activities may be abandoned as things develop; others will be integrated and taken ‘in house’; and new ones will be added.

Fee-free, feel free

There is no financial fee for services provided here.

Copyright for this site is open-source, which means that you may feel free to use anything that is published here for your own purposes – though you should still acknowledge where it comes.

Why ‘Conduction’?

The charity’s name is intended to avoid distracting associations now attached to ‘Conductive Education’. At the same time, it honours the meaning of the Latin word conductio from which the expression reportedly derives, meaning ‘bringing things together’ – to use a modern idiom, ‘getting it together’.

This will apply both to the actual workings of conductive upbringing and pedagogy, and to public understanding of all that implementing this approach implies.

And why ‘e-’?

This website’s URL, www.e-conduction.org signifies ‘electronic conduction’, because it brings together people and understandings through the electronic world.

Questions, comments.

Feel free to ask questions and to make comments on anything that you see on e-conduction. To de so, click on ‘Comment’ at the bottom of this post. Or go across to the Community Forum (left-hand side-bar) and post there.

If something does not work, say so.