Early-Childhood Professionals Ponder Value of Internet Access

By Linda Jacobson

Bonnie Blagojevic has worked in child care for 17 years, but it was not until she began using the Internet six years ago that she became connected to early-childhood educators around the world.

A curriculum coordinator at the Sharing Place Child Care Center in Orono, Maine, Ms. Blagojevic has used the Internet for everything from getting information about monarch caterpillars to preparing workshop presentations with "colleagues" she has never met in person.

Ms. Blagojevic, though, is like most people who work in the early-childhood field: If they're tapping into the World Wide Web, chances are they're...