Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning

Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin's Blog – June 2009 Archive (12)

Call for Research Conference Proposals: AERA. deadline 09/01/09

As announced in the May issue of the Educational Researcher, this year AERA has launched a new program of support for conferences in education research. AERA supports conferences intended to break new ground in substantive areas of inquiry, stimulate new lines of study on issues that have been largely unexplored, or develop innovative research methods or techniques that can contribute more generally to education research.

Please read the Call and consider bringing forth important… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 30, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

reminder CFP: SLCC09 July 17 deadline

Group Notice From: Phelan Corrimal

This year the SLCC Education Track (August 13-16 2009) is going to look substantially different from previous years. We are putting together a track which will have a large emphasis on Community, Professional Development, and Participatory Interactive Presentations.

Full details are available here. Proposals should be submitted… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 19, 2009 at 1:01pm — No Comments

CFP: Association of Virtual Worlds member white paper

Beginning in July 2009 the AVW will publish one member-written white paper per month through the end of 2009 and will promote the published white paper through a national press release campaign. The AVW has such cutting-edge talent and stellar thought leaders among its members that their work should be celebrated and shared. If you are interested please email edita@associationofvirtualworlds.com directly for a copy of the AVW submission… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 18, 2009 at 2:04pm — No Comments

Free Conference Facilities in SL

Please read Fleet's email to us, Eduislands tenants. Fleet agreed to let me forward this to the larger virtual world galaxy.

"Hi everyone,

In fulfilment of a promise made earlier in the year, I have provided a free virtual convention center location on the Eduislands in time for the busy upcoming real-world conference season. The building is located on Eduisland 3 ( 2 pictures attached below) and is a blank slate inside so that specific organizations can fit their own equipment,… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 17, 2009 at 12:23pm — No Comments

MIC 09 International Update

update on the pre-conference sessions:
http://arvelsig.ning.com/events/merlot-international
see under comments

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 16, 2009 at 4:47pm — No Comments

CFP: 2010 AERA Meeting

Deadline: July 15, 2009

2010 Annual Meeting , Friday, April 30 – Tuesday, May 4, Denver, Colorado

Meeting Theme: Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World

Important Announcements

* Online Submission System Now Open - Deadline: July 15, 2009

* Call for Submissions (… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 9, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

CoSN events at NECC 09

go check event post http://arvelsig.ning.com/events/national-educational-computing

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 8, 2009 at 8:42am — No Comments

Alan Levine -invited Speaker at ED-MEDIA 2009

On May 31, George Siemens interviewed Alan Levine. Here is a repost of Siemens' report with links to sites and podcast:

"Alan Levine (who barks wisdom at cogdogblog) has been actively involved in media, web, and instructional design for well over a decade. Alan is the Vice President Community and CTO at New Media Consortium.

He is also a speaker at ED-MEDIA 09. His awareness of trends, use of social… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 8, 2009 at 8:05am — No Comments

E-Learn 2009 final call

Final Call for Participation Deadline: Sept. 8

http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm

E-Learn 2009: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education

October 26-30, 2009 * Vancouver, BC Canada

(Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre)

Organized by: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE),… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 8, 2009 at 7:43am — No Comments

CFP: Special Issue Educational Research on Virtual Worlds and Education

REPOST FROM FACEBOOK, SL EDUCATION ROUNDATABLE group:

Contributions are invited for the Special Issue of Educational Research on Virtual Worlds and Education, to be published 2010.

For this special issue, edited by Dr Peter Twining, Co-director of Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology at the Open University, UK, we are looking for papers that focus on frameworks and models for thinking about the educational use of virtual worlds – leading in to… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 3, 2009 at 1:58pm — No Comments

$5,000 for winning dissertation

Apply for PDK International's Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. The PDK Educational Foundation will give a cash award of $5,000 to the winner, and a summary of the winning dissertation will be published in Phi Delta Kappan.

Apply by September 1, 2009

Details and application materials are available at www.pdkintl.org…

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Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 3, 2009 at 1:50pm — No Comments

CFP: PRESENCE 2009

12th Annual International Workshop on Presence

***Submission deadline: JULY 1, 2009***

Los Angeles, California, USA

November 11-13, 2009

Conference web site (new information has been added):

http://ispr.info/conference

OVERVIEW

Academics and practitioners with an interest in the concept of (tele)presence are invited to submit their work for presentation at the 12th Annual… Continue

Added by Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin on June 3, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments