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ED-MEDIA 2007

World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia & Telecommunications

June 25-29, 2007 * Vancouver, BC Canada

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

** Submissions Due: Dec. 19, 2006 **

Organized by
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
http://www.aace.org
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COLOR POSTER–ED-MEDIA 2007 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb)
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/ed07poster.pdf

>> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below)

1. Call for Papers and Submission & Presenter Guidelines, Deadline Dec. 19th:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge

2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm
3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm

4. Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm
5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs
6. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm

7. Vancouver, BC Canada: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vancouver/
8. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm

INVITATION:

ED-MEDIA 2007–World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.

ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,500 attendees from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit proposals for presentations.

All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three reviewers on the respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings.

For Call for Presentations, connect to:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm

All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form at:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm

For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
* Keynote Speakers
* Invited Panels/Speakers
* Papers
* Panels
* Demonstrations/Posters
* Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations
* Tutorials/Workshops
* Roundtables

TOPICS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications:

1. Infrastructure: (in the large)
– Architectures for Educational Technology Systems
– Design of Distance Learning Systems
– Distributed Learning Environments
– Methodologies for system design
– Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems
– WWW-based course-support systems

2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications:
– Agents
– Authoring tools
– Evaluation of impact
– Interactive Learning Environments
– Groupware tools
– Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications
– Research perspectives
– Virtual Reality
– WWW-based course sites
– WWW-based learning resources
– WWW-based tools

3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner:
– Constructivist perspectives
– Cooperative/collaborative learning
– Implementation experiences
– Improving Classroom Teaching
– Instructor networking
– Instructor training and support
– Pedagogical Issues
– Teaching/Learning Strategies

4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI):
– Computer-Mediated Communication
– Design principles
– Usability/user studies
– User interface design

5. Cases & Projects:
– Country-Specific Developments
– Exemplary projects
– Institution-specific cases
– Virtual universities

6. Special Strand: ** Universal Web Accessibility **
– Emerging Technologies & Accessibility
– Infrastructure, Technology & Techniques
– International Challenges
– New Roles for Teachers/Learners
– Other: Research, Library Issues, etc.
– Policy and Law
– Site Management Considerations

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm

The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.

CORPORATE SHOWCASES & DEMONSTRATIONS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm

Companies have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their educational technology products and services in through Corporate Showcases and Demonstrations / Literature.

PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS:
http://www.aace.org/pubs

Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on CD-ROM.Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia / hypermedia /telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are internationally distributed through and archived in the Education and Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org

Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for publication in AACE’s respected journals especially in the
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH),
- International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), or
- Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR).

All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within several categories. Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals.

FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm

The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $450 U.S. (non-members). Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions except tutorials. The conference dinner will be an extra fee.

All conference sessions will be held at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel (http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/hotel.htm). The Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre is Vancouver’s premier hotel – ideally located in the heart of the city’s business, financial and shopping districts – with magnificent views of the mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Special discount hotel and airline rates have been obtained for ED-MEDIA participants.

VANCOUVER, BC CANADA:
http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vancouver

Vancouver is a dynamic, multicultural city with a cosmopolitan flair set in a spectacular natural environment. Nestled between majestic mountains and sparkling ocean, Vancouver is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

For further Vancouver information see:
http://www.tourismvancouver.com

DEADLINES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm

Submissions Due: December 19, 2006
Authors Notified: February 23, 2007
Proceedings File Due: May 2, 2007
Early Registration: May 2, 2007
Hotel Reservations: May 25, 2007
Conference: June 25-29, 2007

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To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link to http://www.aace.org/info.htm

If you have a question about ED-MEDIA, please send an e-mail to AACE Conference Services, conf@aace.org

Contact:
AACE–Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
P.O. Box 1545
Chesapeake, Virginia 23327 USA
Phone: 757-366-5606
Fax: 703-997-8760
E-mail: conf@aace.org
http://www.AACE.org

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Call for Chapters for the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, Editor: Sigrid Kelsey, MLIS, Louisiana State University

Introduction: Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years. Podcasts, Email, the World Wide Web, Blackberries, cell phones, text messaging, wireless connections, and other forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) have transformed communication in numerous ways, not only facilitating the speed and sometimes ease of communicating, but redefining and shaping today’s communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication.

Coverage: The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will feature chapters (5000-7000 words) of a scholarly nature, written by experts offering in-depth descriptions of concepts, issues, and trends in various areas of CMC. The purpose of this handbook is to provide academic articles written in a more non-academic style, in the sense that each article should focus on a specific topic — rather than a general treatment of CMC — keeping in mind a readership with a varied background. This will allow scholarly ideas to be accessible to a wide range of readers. This book will explore various forms of CMC chapter by chapter and discuss the broad implications that each medium is having on communication.

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Murcia, Spain, 5 to 8 October 2006 (http://www.iadis.org/icwi2006)

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline for submissions (second call): 28 July 2006 – The IADIS WWW/Internet 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have aroused. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these
developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don’t fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

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NELINET Call for Proposals for Presentations for the 2006 IT Conference

Title: “Social Networking: Plugging New England Libraries into Web 2.0″
Date: Friday, October 13, 2006
Location: Bentley College, Waltham, MA

Want to share your expertise? NELINET is looking for proposals that are project-based and show how libraries are using new technology tools to facilitate a user-mediated environment.

Presentations should be 45-minutes in length, including time for a question and answer period. Shorter talks can be combined into multi-speaker sessions; if you have a topic you’d like to share that is shorter (20 minutes in length), please submit it for review.

Proposal guidelines and links to the online proposal submission forms are located at: http://www.nelinet.net/edserv/conf/it/2006/index.htm

Questions? Please contact Siobhan Ross (1.800.635.4638 x1923 or ross@nelinet.net )

Call for Papers

Interaction is a fundamental feature of research in the Arts and Humanities. This conference seeks to explore diverse interactions that shape new ars of investigation and provide a fresh look at interdisciplinary practices.

This graduate conference will explore the ways in which an exchange of ideas and methodologies within the Arts and Social Sciences can produce new routes of thinking and activity.

We invite short papers on a range of subjects and interactive or interdisciplinary approaches in all aspects of the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and the creative and performing fields. Examples of questions that might be helpful when thinking about the topic include: What are the new possibilities that result from an interactive environment in research? How do traditional fields or areas interact with the modern world and its culture? How is the issue of cultural identity and a sense of belonging revisited through inter/intra cultural interactions?

Abstracts should be a maximum of 200 words in length, and should be submitted in English with the speaker’s name, institutional affiliation and title of the paper. This is the fifth conference of its kind at the University of Glasgow, and promises to continue the tradition of providing rich social and intellectual interaction within that vibrant city.

Suggested themes include but are not limited to:

• Non-textual forms of communication
• The global and the local
• Postcolonial interaction
• Interactive spaces
• Gendered spaces
• Text and context
• Interpretation/Translation/Adaptation
• Clashes and Convergences
• Identity and the self
• Human-machine interaction
• Interactive art and art on the web
• Humans and environment
• Fact and fiction
• Science and art
• The crowd/The audience/The speaker
• Interfaith dialogue

Please email abstracts to interactions@arts.gla.ac.uk and go to http://www.gla.ac.uk/interactions for further information.

The deadline for abstracts is 1 August 2006.

Please forward this to any interested parties.
Yours Sincerely, the Conference Committee.

RFID & the Internet of Things
Mediamatic, Amsterdam
May 9, 10, 100
http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-11183-en.html

RFID will play a pivotal role in fusing the physical world with the digital. RFID allows for the unique identification of objects, and any kind of online data can be linked to these unique ID’s. Here is where the real world and the internet become two faces of the same reality. Things go online.

Questions that come up: What are useful things to have online? How can the sharing of information between things yield us new valuable meanings and experiences? What new kinds of play can we think of, when our ordinary stuff begins to talk among itself? Will objects gain personalities?

And the key question seems to be: What are valid and imporant kinds of human agency that should be designed into an Internet of Things?

The participants of this workshop will develop scenarios for an internet of things. Ideas can range from scripts for small new rituals to outlines of societal changes of epic scale. The critical, utopian or nightmarish scenarios will be informed by lectures with concrete knowledge about currently available technology; by handy workshop tools that give hands-on experience in developing RFID applications, and by insightful presentations by cutting-edge makers and thinkers.

The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.

As its name indicates the conference is dedicated to Artificial intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2006, we would like to put the emphasis on a specific phenomenon that affects all areas of AI: the application and leverage of artificial intelligence technology in the context of human collaboration which today is mediated by the web. Artificial intelligence is used for supporting human communication in a wide variety of ways. For example, reasoning over the semantic web, analysing relationships between people, enhancing the user experience by learning from their behavior, applying natural language to large multilingual corpora, planning a combination of web services, adapting and personalising educational material, etc. All Artificial intelligence techniques are amenable to facilitating communication on the web. Moreover, these techniques are not deployed in isolation but are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the social sciences, discrete mathematics, network computing, or cryptography. AIMSA 2006 aims to reflect this plethora of avenues whereby Artificial intelligence supports human collaboration based activities.

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006 Workshop “Developing a Digital Libraries Education Program”

June 15, 8:30A-5P
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Indiana University (IU) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will be offering a full-day workshop, aimed at digital library professionals, researchers, and educators to cover prominent issues surrounding digital libraries education. It is based on an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded collaborative DL education project. It is the second year of a three-year project. We have spent the past year recruiting our first classes of Digital Library Fellows, learning about the requirements of the digital library profession, and developing new courses. The workshop will bring together a number of speakers on topics of interest to digital library educators and working professionals. The workshop will provide the opportunity for IU and UIUC, other IMLS grant recipients, and several representatives from DL programs in other countries to report on project details, including requirements analysis, curriculum development, and program evaluation.

Specific topics to be covered are:
- Defining the domain of “digital librarianship”
- Core competencies in technical areas
- Core competencies in user, social, and legal areas
- Management of projects, systems, and people
- Balancing theory and practice
- Advanced Registration Rates: May 15th, 2006

http://jcdl2006.org/program/

Dan Albertson
Indiana University

Bonnie C. Carroll, President of Information International Associates Inc., will present the Keynote Address at the Opening Session of the Eighth International Conference on Grey Literature. This year’s conference is titled “Harnessing the Power of Grey”; and if there is one informational professional who can bring this to task, it is Bonnie Carroll. As President of IIa, she supports government and industry in managing information as a strategic resource.

Recent Keynote Addresses in the GL-Series were presented by:

GL7 – Dr. Laurent Romary, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
GL6 – James G. Neal, Columbia University, United States
GL5 – Dr. Helmut Artus, Information Centre for the Social Sciences, Germany

More information may be found at

http://www.textrelease.com
http://www.greynet.org

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Jill Weber, the Project Director for NEIRTEC – the New England and Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium laboratory, one of 8 such centers nationally.

A key point of her presentation was “them and us” – a full 50% of the worlds population is under 25, but almost all of the world’s teachers are in the “other” half.

A key point was an observation from Marc Prensky, a self labeled visionary, who, when asking a 10-year student to describe himself, was told: “The three words that describe me are athletic, smart, Gameboy-addicted.” Students today are a different species.

The younger generation has been call the digital natives – computer technology has been with them since day 1. By the time they graduate from college, they’ve:

• played 10,00 hours of video games
• read 250,000 emails
• chatted 10,000 hours on cell phones
• logged 20,0000 hours of TV
• been exposed to 500,000 commercials
• and have spent < 5,000 hours reading books

  Ecomomically,

  • downloaded 2 billion ring tones a month
  • downloaded 2 billion music downloads a month

  The “digital imigrants”, on the other hand, are digital with a heavy accent

  • Print out emails to file them
  • print document to edit them
  • make little use of IM
  • think “real life” happens off line
  • invariabley follow up email messages with a “Did you get my email” phone call

  The way to bridge the gap is:

  • don’t focus on the technology
  • don’t focus on the content
  • do focus on the person

  The role of the teacher is to become a partner in the student’s education.