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• The Islands of jokaydia Community of Practice is planning an In-World Unconference which will will occur on the Islands of jokaydia from 27-28th September 2008 http://jokaydia.wikispaces.com/jokaydiaUnconference. According to the schedule as it stands at 10 a.m. GMT on 27 Sept the following events took place:
  • Pre-event session 9am - 9:45am AEST (SLT: 4pm, 26th Sept. Friday, September 26, 2008 at 23:00:00 UTC) Conference Welcome and Newbie Support Meet up with your hosts - the members of the jokaydia Community to prepare for the weekend of events. Newbies are particularly welcome - there will be support staff inworld to help you figure out camera, voice and general Second Life skills. jokay Wollongong and jokaydia Residents jokaydia Conference Venue
  • Session 1: 10am - 11am AEST (SLT: 5pm, 26th Sept. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 00:00:00 UTC) Ramapo Islands:A New Dimension in Learning Focusing on the process of developing constructivist learning in the virtual world, Sheehy will present the steps her teachers have taken for teaching on Ramapo Islands in Teen Second life to translate their content into the virtual landscape. She will outline the best practices that have evolved as a result and the student responses to this 21st century pedagogical shift. The hour long presentation will include anecdotal evidence from teachers, administrators and students, video clips of the work being done and both the anticipated and actual outcomes. Maggie Marat aka Peggy Sheehy jokaydia Conference Venue
  • Session 2: 11:30am - 12:30pm AEST (SLT: 6:30pm, 26th Sept. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 01:30:00 UTC) jokaydia Unconference Newbie Session: An introductory session for visitors who are new to Second Life. Will include a tour and avatar workshop. jokay Wollongong Konrad March jokaydia Newbie Garden
  • Session 3: 1:30pm - 2:30pm (SLT: 8:30pm, 26th Sept. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 03:30:00 UTC) Using a Virtual World to Educate students in Higher Education Jass Easterman will take you through how she has been using the virtual world of Second Life with volunteer students enrolled in two education units. She will discuss the types of activities the students have undertaken, what has worked and what hasn’t and what is required of them. This hour long presentation will include anecdotal evidence from students and Jass. Jass Easterman aka Sue Gregory and students jokaydia Beach
  • Session 4: 2:30pm - 3:00pm (SLT: 9:30 - 10pm. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 04:30:00 UTC ) Microblogging! Gnu Curry and Henny Zimer share some ideas and info about microblogging - both in SL and in RL! Gnu Curry aka Chris Harvey and Henny Zimer aka Jef Age Project Island, jokaydia II
  • Session 5: 3:00pm - 3:30pm (SLT: 10pm - 10:30pm. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 05:00:00 UTC) Sustainability in and of Second Life Leigh Blackall will lead a discussion and sharing session aroud sustainability issues and SL. Leroy Goalpost aka Leigh Blackall Virtual Classroom Project Space
  • Session 6: 4pm - 5pm AEST (SLT: 11pm, 26th Sept. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 06:00:00 UTC) Jokaydia Unconference Open Discussion An open discussion session for all participants. Bring your ideas, demos, projects and works in progress and share them with colleagues. What challenges and opportunities do virtual worlds offer? What are the big issues in your practice right now!? jokay Wollongong and jokaydia Residents jokaydia Conference Venue
  • Session 7: 6pm - 7pm (SLT: 1am. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 08:00:00 UTC) Networked Community : Architectures For Part(icipation) An informal discussion lead by Geon and Limitlessness.... Conducted in a disco awith shiny floors and happy hour for at least the first thirty in the door! Geon Nasu vs. Limitlessness Infinity bar jokaydia (SLurl)
  • Session 8- Social Event: 8:30pm - 10:30pm (SLT: 3:30am. Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 10:30:00 UTC) jokaydia Unconference Party! Join us for some virtual dancing and socialising at the Islands of jokaydia Gallery. You can also check out the beautiful artworks from the AAEE's Topophilia Exhibition. jokay Wollongong and jokaydia Residents jokaydia Gallery
• ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide 9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK Submission guidelines and conference themes/dimensions: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/papers.html Submit your proposal on the new submission system at https://alt.conference-services.net/ Submissions close 28 February 2008 Presenters’ registration deadline: 6 June 2008 Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2008 Registrations close: 15 August 2008 Keynote speakers David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab; Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southampton; Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Director of the Gapminder Foundation. http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/
• 080903 Eurocall 2008 Conference 3-6 September, 2008 | Székesfehérvár, Hungary http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/. There is a free Virtual Strand, http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/index.php?c=121 including a Pre-Conference Workshop (PCW) on Second Life and Lively, 3 September 2008. You can find the description of the workshop at http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/index.php?c=92 under W11/Second Life and Lively by Google. . In preparation for the PCW, Graham Davies has created a Word document that explains the preparation you need to do in advance of the workshop and what will be covered in the workshop. The document can be downloaded from the ICT4LT website, Section 14.2.1 of Module 1.5: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod1-5.htm#secondlife or direct from here: http://www.ict4lt.org/en/Euro08PCWSL.doc Please note that the PCW targets absolute beginners in Second Life. It is far too basic for experienced users. You should also register (free of charge) for the EUROCALL 2008 Virtual Strand: http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/index.php?c=122 and for the workshop here: http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/index.php?c=44. During the EUROCALL 2008 conference there will be opportunities for online chat in the EUROCALL HQ in Second Life and also in the Lively room that we have created. Here are the URLs: Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/EduNation%20III/9/29/22/ Lively: http://www.lively.com/dr?rid=-5085702628635910660&edit_room=1
• ANTWERP CALL 2008 XIIIth International CALL Research Conference 30 August - 2 September 2008 http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CALL2008 Practice-Based & Practice-Oriented CALL Research Programme Committee: Jozef Colpaert, editor; Mike Levy, Phil Hubbard and Wilfried Decoo, associate editors of the CALL Journal (Taylor & Francis) Scientific Committee: The editorial board of the CALL Journal Organizing Committee: LINGUAPOLIS, Institute for Language and Communication at the University of Antwerp Conference Host: Ann Aerts, LINGUAPOLIS Venue: University of Antwerp City Campus (Stadscampus) In general, the Antwerp CALL conferences focus on research topics and issues in CALL. The theme for the 2008 conference was inspired by the many reactions, questions and suggestions we have been receiving since our 2006 conference: - how to integrate research findings in practice; - how to evaluate this integration afterwards; - how to integrate practice-orientation in research design; - how can practice contribute to research or be considered research; - how to publish about CALL practice. CALL Practice includes activities like: - selection, integration and evaluation of ICT in language learning and instruction; - courseware design and development; - test development and administration; - teacher training; - project management. Proposed topics may be narrowly defined, such as the analysis of learner language, data gathering (tracking and logging), interactive whiteboards, NLP-routines, corpora and concordancers, speech recognition and pronunciation training, listening comprehension or vocabulary acquisition. You are invited to present your current work and to highlight aspects relevant to the conference theme. Accepted presentations will be rated and classified into three categories: - plenary presentations (30 minute presentations); - parallel presentations (20 minute presentations); - panel sessions (10 minute presentations followed by group discussion). Selected papers will be published in the CALL Journal. The Antwerp CALL Conferences are small-scale conferences where CALLers meet colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere, where doctoral students participate in discussions with senior researchers - a jump start - and where everyone can have a drink afterwards in one of the many cozy bars in the bustling city centre. Antwerp CALL 2008 can be easily combined with AILA2008 (www.aila2008.org) and Eurocall 2008 (http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/) in Hungary.
• AILA 2008 - the 15. World Congress of Applied Linguistics - in Essen (August, 24.-29.2008)- cf. http://www.aila2008.org.
  Keynote Speakers The AILA 2008 organising committee is proud to announce that the following keynote speakers have confirmed their participation:
  • Claire Kramsch (University of California at Berkeley, USA) In the spirit of the AILA 2008 conference theme "Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities" Claire Kramsch will hold her keynote in German. The provisional title is "Dritte Orte in der Sprachlehr-und Lernforschung".
  • Rita Franceschini (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy) The focus of Rita Franceschini's keynote will be bilingualism. The exact topic/theme will be announced soon.
  • Neville Alexander (University of Cape Town, South Africa) The provisional title of Neville Alexander's keynote is "Multilingualism and Language Politics in Africa".
  • Jim Cummins (University of Toronto, Canada) The theme/topic of Jim Cummins' keynote will be announced soon. A keynote by Jim Cummins at a conference with "Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities" as its theme will, of course, be one of the highlights at AILA 2008.
  • Shi-xu (Zhejiang University, China) The provisional title of Shi-xu's keynote is "Towards a Multiculturalist Approach to Discourse Studies: Making a Chinese case".
  For further information on the Call for Papers and the online submission of proposals please visit our website at http://www.aila2008.org/call-for-papers.html
  Members of the NLP-SIG will be organising the ICALL panel at the AILA conference www.aila2008.org in Essen (Germany), 24-29 August 2008. More information at the Natural Language Processing SIG: Website: http://siglp.eurocall-languages.org/
• Was this cancelled?? Thursday, August 21 - Saturday, August 23, 2008! *** Hosted by York University at the Keele campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Submitting A Proposal? (virtually or in-person) http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=1105 (June 1st is the deadline) What's our program? http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=1091 To view the selection of presentations you'll need to login first so that you can click on the links! Early Bird Registration closes June 15 (that is soon!) For you early birds we have a special surprise.... Martin Dougiamas, Moodle Lead Developer will be pre-recording answers to a few questions asked by our delegates. Unfortunately, he can't attend -- he'll be at the Olympics in Beijing. So... Think of your question, pre-register and your question might be selected! Sponsor Our Moot (and have your business listed on our Moot site!) More information: http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=1062 Questions? write to: CanadaMoot@knowplace.ca
• WorldCALL 2008 is to be held in Fukuoka, Japan from August 5-8, 2008. Further information about the conference and the paper submission process can be found at: http://www.j-let.org/~wcf/
• The 6th CTJ TEFL Seminar will be held in july at Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasília, Brazil. It will be held right after Braz-TESOL, so you can attend both events!!! Call for proposals, timetable and registration form can be accessed at: http://www.thomas.org.br/new_ctj/ctj_news/ctjnews_interna.php?id=680&Sub=new s&menu=#4
• Concordia Language Villages offers two opportunities for world language teachers during the summer: 1. Teacher Seminars - June 22 - July 2, 2008 A four-credit graduate course in Second Language and Immersion Methodologies. 2. Master of Education in World Language Instruction Two summers coupled with online coursework during the academic year emphasizing the effective use of technology in the world language classroom. For more information, call 1-800-222-4750 Ext. 2002 or email educators@cord.edu or visit our website: http://clvweb.cord.edu/prweb/educators/teacher_seminar.asp.
• 13er Encuentro Nacional de Profesores de Lenguas Extranjeras Práctica educativa en la enseñanza de LE en México Centro de Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras, UNAM 24, 25, 26 y 27 de junio de 2008, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, the 13th National Meeting of Teachers of Foreign Languages. http://ianua.cele.unam.mx/encuentro/ . There is also a blog used for organizing the event http://13enple.blogspot.com/
• Register for TESOL's May 2008 virtual seminars! There is no registration fee for TESOL Student and Global Members. By registering, you will have access to the live event as well as the playback version (available for a three-month period).Title: The Evolving Architecture of CBI Presenters: Marguerite Ann Snow and Donna Brinton Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - Overview: Content-based instruction (CBI) is the integration of selected content with language teaching aims. Applicable to both ESL and EFL instructional settings, CBI is a flexible approach that is constantly evolving. This seminar provides descriptions of current models of CBI, discusses the similarities and differences between CBI and ESP, and presents several case studies of CBI implemented in both ESL and EFL classes. In this seminar, participants consider * how the models may be implemented with adolescent through adult learners * which proficiency levels are most appropriate for CBI * which issues and challenges exist to effective implementation * what outcomes can be expected in terms of student learning and motivation For complete May 21 seminar program and registration information, go to http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=1426&DID=10780. TESOL contact for these programs: jdonaldson@tesol.org TESOL virtual seminars: www.tesol.org/virtualseminars TESOL gratefully acknowledges the support of Heinle, a part of Cengage Learning , in providing the technology platform for TESOL's virtual seminars through their ELT Advantage program.
• 080523 - The Second Life Languages 2008 conference starts at 10am PST (18.00 GMT) 23 May 2008 and ends at 10am PST (18.00 GMT) 24 May 2008. For more information visit http://www.slanguages.net/home.php and then log on to SL. Participants are requested to use the use the tag/keyword "slanguages2008" whenever possible in online artifacts referencing their participation. The program is posted here: http://www.slanguages.net/program.php.
• 080523 - On Friday, May 23 ScOPE holds its final live session for week 2 of the Shaping Our Future conference. George Siemens and Heather Kanuka will speak on a topic that is very important for our work together in this conference and in the years to come: Modeling Collaboration: Researching Professional Development and Learner Needs from a National Perspective. Please join us at 16:00 GMT (see world clock) in this elluminate room: http://tinyurl.com/55nysa
• TESOL's May 2008 virtual seminar - Grammaring Presenter: Diane Larsen-Freeman Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Overview: Teaching grammar often means giving students grammar rules and then having students practice the rules in drills and exercises. Students do learn about grammar this way, but they don't necessarily learn to use it for their own communicative purposes. Grammaring is a dynamic process. It is what enables ESL/EFL students to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately. In this Virtual Seminar, we will learn about grammaring, how it is learned, and how to teach it. For complete May 7 seminar program and registration information, go to http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=1426&DID=10780. . TESOL contact for these programs: jdonaldson@tesol.org TESOL virtual seminars: www.tesol.org/virtualseminars TESOL gratefully acknowledges the support of Heinle, a part of Cengage Learning , in providing the technology platform for TESOL's virtual seminars through their ELT Advantage program.
• The CMC SIG was formally set up at the Coleraine conference and has since developed a very active discussion list and website http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CMC_SIG/. Members of the CMC SIG based in Italy will also be organising "Computer-Mediated Communication and Language Learning: Research and Practice"at the University of Padova, Italy, 17-19th April 2008 and the event will inlcude a great variety of presentations and workshops related to CMC and online foreign language learning. All Eurocall members interested in CMC are encouraged to attend. The programme is online and online registration (60 Euros) is open. http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/cla/EUROCALL/provisional_programme.html The seminar aims to bring together practitioners from European educational contexts: • to share examples of good practice in the use of CMC for language learning and intercultural learning in schools and universities • to present methodological approaches to and developments in research on CMC and language learning • to engage in discussions about applications of CMC in language teaching/learning and raise awareness of the issues involved • to offer hands-on experience of different types of CMC technologies through practical workshops • to provide opportunities to network and develop proposals for future research and collaboration. More details about the event can be found here: http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/cla/EUROCALL/
• 2nd International Symposium of Computer and Instructional Technologies in 16 - 18 April, 2008 at Pine Bay Holiday Resort, Kusadasi, Aydin, TURKEY. It is also a wonderful place (www.pinebay.com) to have a short holiday for you and also colloborate with colleagues around the world. Our web site: www.icits.org
• Teaching in the Community Colleges, TCC 2008, is scheduled for April 15-17 with a pre-conference orientation on April 2-3, 2008, conference homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/. Thirteenth Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 15-17, 2008 Pre-conference dates: April 2-3, 2008 The New Internet: Collaboration, Convergence, Creativity, Contrast, and Challenges REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Registration deadline: March 31, 2008 (Early bird) https://skellig.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc2008/registration/online_reg.php ($69 USD; $99 USD after March 31): CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. Registration entitles participants to: * The official conference web site and community, 24x7. * Real-time, online attendance for keynotes, features, papers, and discussions. * Access the conference papers and proceedings. * Recordings of all live sessions. * Opportunities for meeting and interacting with presenters & colleagues. * Sharing background and professional contact information with colleagues. * Participation in on-demand discussions and other fun activities. VENUE. This conference is held entirely online using a web browser for access to content and technology services. A computer system with headphones and microphone as well as broadband Internet access is recommended. THEME. TCC offers over 70 papers and general presentations on the continuing evolution of distance learning, online communities and collaboration, social networking, and best practices of instructional technology, as well as a broad range of topics related to the application of educational technology in teaching and learning. PRESENTATIONS. The following is a selected list of scheduled presentations: Looking Back to Go Forward Designing Instruction for Second Life Second Life: A debate about virtual reality Second Life: Teaching Tips from the Virtual Frontier Facilitating New Faculty in Using Learning Spaces in Second Life Digital Dynamics: Culture and Technology in Second Life Education Emergency Preparedness and Health Security Using Second Life as a Teaching Tool Web 2.0 Solutions to Course Development Communication Challenges Collaborative Web 2.0 Tools: Instructional Uses of Google Apps Using a Social Bookmark Site to Support Professional Practices Building a Learning Community with MAGGIE Using a Wiki as an Electronic Performance Support System Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why? Learning Objects: Where to Find Them and Why Using Online Library Databases via an iPhone/iPod Touch Embedded Librarian in an Online, Graduate-level, Research Course Using Moodle to Promote Collaboration and Community from Atlanta to Manila Using Moodle tools to facilitate student reflection The Tablet PC as an all-in-one computer for faculty Teaching Strategies that Enhance Online Communities Advising and Supporting Online Learners Applying the HedgeHog Principle to Online Higher Education Top Three Characteristics of and Online Instructor and My Teaching Philosophy Challenges and Successes: Videoconferencing Speech Classes between Hawaii and Japan Leadership in Online Learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Minority Women Cultural Diversity and it's impact in an online education environment Strengthening Seldom Taught Languages Through User Generated Community EFL Faculty Online: Support and Development Issues LANCELOT - LANguage learning with CErtified Live Online Teachers What Works Best -- Podcasting or a Study Tool Game? Making Audiobooks Using PodText and iPods Is Internet-based Learning Effective in EFL? iStream: Innovation at Your Fingertips The Global Digital Divide KEYNOTE SESSIONS. Dr. Larry Johnson, CEO, New Media Consortium (NMC) Mr. Jonathan Finkelstein, CEO, LearningTimes.org Dr. Barbara P. McLain, Professor of Music, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) The University of Hawai'i, Kapi'olani Community College and University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Educational Technology Department, College of Education host this event in partnership with Osaka Gakuin University, Japan and LearningTimes.org. TCC 2008 is also held in collaboration with the Pan-Pacific Distance Learning Association (PPDLA) and the New Media Consortium (NMC).
• Innovation 2008 (http://education-2008.org) brings together researchers, educators, and government and business leaders to formulate a vision for the future of education. This conference aims at a realistic appraisal of the present state of education and an assessment of what current realities indicate for the future, coupled with constructive and well-informed speculation about how change can be better managed to serve the need of students, educators, parents, industry, and society as a whole. If you cannot physically attend the conference this coming April 14-15 in Breckenridge, CO, you can attend virtually, thereby allowing you to get a true taste of the attendee experience through informal real-time chats with keynote and session presenters, participants, and sponsors. Innovate's partner, ULiveandLearn, will broadcast all sessions of the conference live and will archive the webcasts for later viewing in the event that you are not able to attend the live sessions. For more information, please go to http://tinyurl.com/2nrhxa to register.
• TechEd 2008 13th Annual Technology in Education International Conference & Tech Exposition April 13 - 16, 2008 Ontario Convention Center is (from its own promotional material) "the world's leading hands-on Technology in Education Conference and Exposition focusing on issues related to Technology in the Learning Environment! Companies like Apple, Torque in Education, ETS, Adobe and many more showcasing real-world solutions to critical issues facing the Education Community. CEU Credits Available. BECOME A TECHED BLOGGER! Help us spread the word about Technology in Education, share stories, ideas and solutions, www.TechEdEvents.org click on the View Blog link to the right."
• The IATEFL annual conference, being held this year in Exeter UK, offers teachers a unique opportunity to share their teaching experiences, learn from each other and to develop their teaching skills and knowledge. Not everyone though is able to attend the conference in person, but this year IATEFL and the British Council are trying to offer as many people as possible the opportunity to participate online. We would like your help to make this a success. We are looking for online moderators who would be willing to participate in forum discussions over the course of the conference and beyond. This would involve you logging in to the IATEFL online website at least once a day between 7th – 11th April and engaging with other teachers in an on going discussion around one of these topics. ? Business English ? ELT Management ? ESOL ? English for Specific Purposes ? Global Issues ? Learner Autonomy ? Literature, Media & Cultural Studies ? Learning Technologies ? Pronunciation ? Research ? Teacher Development ? Teacher Training & Education ? Testing, Evaluation & Assessment ? Young Learners If you are interested in becoming an IATEFL online moderator then drop us a line saying: Which specialist topic you are most interested in What you feel are the key qualities of an online moderator (not more than 400 words) Please send applications to: nikpeachey@mac.com no later than 10th March 2008 Best Nik Peachey IATEFL online editor 2008. There are over 2,000 people registered at the free online counterpart to IATEFL Exeter: http://exeteronline.britishcouncil.org
• The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce a conference to be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 4-5, 2008. Entitled "Reassessing the Foreign Language Curriculum in the Age of Globalization: Responses to the MLA Report on Foreign Languages and Higher Education", the conference will feature presentations by Scott McGinnis of the Defense Language Institute, Clara Yu of the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Hans Lauge Hansen of Aarhus University, Elizabeth Welles of the MLA, Damon Rarick of the University of Rhode Island, Roger Allen of the University of Pennsylvania, Rick Donato of the University of Pittsburgh, and Katherine Arens of the University of Texas. The keynote speaker on Friday evening will be the distinguished Chinese-American author and winner of the National Book Award, Ha Jin. For further information and to register online, see the Consortium website: http://www.languageconsortium.org
• CALICO will once again be submitting a proposal to sponsor a colloquium (4-5 papers) at the annual conference of the American Associated of Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC, 29 March-1 April 2008. The general theme of the colloquium is "SLA principles in CALL--CALL principles in SLA."
• Filipino as a Global Language: Future Directions and Prospects 1st International Conference Filipino and Philippine Literature Program Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature University of Hawai`i at Manoa March 17-19, 2008 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The conference will be an avenue for bringing together scholars, writers, language teachers, researchers and other practitioners from around the world to discuss issues pertaining the role of Filipino as a global language. Participants can be teachers, researchers, program administrators/coordinators and other practitioners who are directly involved in the promotion and nurturing of the Filipino language, literature and culture. This first conference is geared towards establishing a tradition of scholarly meetings of this kind among practitioners in the field of Filipino language, literature and culture studies. Its goal is to provide a venue for the exchange of ideas among teachers, researchers, program administrators, writers, and other agencies involved in the promotion and nurturing of the Filipino language and culture for the purpose of: 1) describing/sharing existing state-of-the-art programs 2) identifying program needs as well as available resources 3) sharing ideas, research results, resources, assessment tools, and practices on teaching, program administration, and language promotion 4) fostering cooperation, and collaboration in doing research 5) raising consciousness on the importance of the national language to minimize regionalism and 6) advocacy Topic: Papers will need to directly focus on one or more of the following Curriculum Development, Needs Analysis and Syllabus Design Program Development, Administration and Coordination Translation, Interpretation and Dubbing Teacher Training and Professional Development Language and Politics Heritage Language Learners: Needs Assessment and Curriculum Development Materials Development Research Funding and Grant Sourcing Teaching Culture Filipino Linguistics: An Overview and Directions Language Teaching Approaches Service Learning, Community Sourcing, Student Organizations Articulation, Assessment and Implementation of Standards Language Teacher Certification Program Evaluation Methods and Practices Teaching Literature Filipino in the Media and Diplomacy Poster Sessions will be on Filipino Programs Outside the Philippines DEADLINE: August 6, 2007 For details, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/filipino/intlconf2008/
• CALICO with IALLT 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Bridging CALL Communities Hosted by University of San Francisco San Francisco, California March 18-22 Preconference Workshops: Tuesday, March 18 - Wednesday, March 19 Courseware Showcase: Thursday, March 20 Presentation Sessions: Thursday, March 20 - Saturday, March 22 http://calico.org. Holiday Inn Golden Gateway conference special rate ends February 27th. Each year CALICO's conference features preconference workshops, individual presentations, a courseware showcase, exhibits, luncheon, banquet, and a great venue. You can get a preview of the workshops, sessions, and courseware to be presented at the conference and also submit your registration online from CALICO's conference website: http://calico.org/conference.
  CALICO'08 Pre-Conference Workshop on AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF LEARNER LANGUAGE: BRIDGING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING NEEDS AND NLP POSSIBILITIES http://purl.org/net/calico-workshop March 18 and 19, 2008 Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, San Francisco
• International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning 2008. Theme : Innovating Minds, Communicating Ideas: Reinventing Language Teaching & Learning. 17th, 18 & 19 MARCH 2008 Hilton Petaling Jaya Hotel, Malaysia. Organised by : Institute of Modern Languages and Communications (IMLC), Multimedia University. http://imcicon.mmu.edu.my/. There is a CfP at http://imcicon.mmu.edu.my/Call_for_paper.php but the dates are in a separate location, http://imcicon.mmu.edu.my/Guidline_for_Abstract_Submission.php.
• The 2008 TESOL Arabia International Conference is March 13-15, 2008, at Dubai Men’s College, Dubai, UAE. The theme of the conference is Finding Your Voice: Critical Issues in ELT http://tesolarabia.org/conference/.
• Wimba Connect 2008 http://www.wimba.com/connect08. From a promotional email: "Wimba encourages you to submit a presentation proposal. Whether you wish to discuss language learning with Wimba, best practices, lessons learned, training and implementation, or anything else, Wimba knows that its audience craves your first-hand expertise. And presenters even get 50% off their registration fee! Also, please forward this email to your colleagues. Wimba Connect 2008 is perfect for instructional designers, IT staff, and even CIO's and Presidents. After all, the more Wimba experts on your campus, the stronger your Wimba implementation. Thanks! Matt -- Matt Wasowski Director, Communications Wimba - People Teach People 520 8th Avenue, Suite 2300 New York, NY 10018 Tel. + 1 212 813 3886 Fax + 1 212 533 6041 mwasowski@wimba.com www.wimba.com Connect & Collaborate at our Users Conference! Wimba Connect 2008 March 2-5, 2008 in Orlando"
• The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) will hold its annual conference February 29 - March 2, 2008 at the Rutgers University New Brunswick campus. This year's theme will be "Global Connections: Language Learning in the Digital Age." We welcome proposals for panels and presentations on all relevant topics, but particularly encourage presentations, panel discussions, or posters in one of the following categories: Language learning with a global perspective (curriculum and outcomes) Showcasing emerging technologies including those that support global connections Language Lab and Resource Center management Future directions in CALL, Language Resource Centers Proposals should be for presentations/demonstrations of 30-45 minutes, panel discussions of 45 minutes to one hour, posters of 25 minutes, or pre-conference workshops of 3 hours. We encourage participation from lab directors and faculty in order to ensure a variety of perspectives. Please consider attending this conference and sharing your latest project with us. Proposals should be submitted online at: http://flp.montclair.edu/fmi/xsl/NEALLT/addrecord.xsl?-findany For more information, please contact Michael Heller (Michael.Heller @ montclair.edu or 973-655-7504). Proposal deadline: Friday, February 1, 2008 Noon EST Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 Registration NEALLT membership is included in the conference registration fee. Conference registration & lodging information will be posted soon on the NEALLT website at http://www.neallt.org
• The 4th CamTESOL conference will take place on 23-24 February 2008. Plenary speakers at this conference are Professor David Nunan and Dr Marti Anderson. Featured speakers are Dr Charles Browne, Dr Marguerite MacDonald, Dr Shawn Loewen and Mr Hayo Reinders. This conference will be held at the National Institute of Education (NIE). The theme of the 2008 conference is “Building Bridges to the World”. There will be 14 focus areas of the conference, consistent with last year and as outlined on the conference website (www.camtesol.org ). To assist with timetabling and accessibility of your presentation, could you please indicate on your application form whether you would be prepared to make your presentation twice. May I hereby encourage you to support this conference series for the professionalisation of English Language Teaching in Cambodia and more broadly in the Indo-Chinese region. To encourage quality regional presentations, there will be an abstract competition for the presentation that is most relevant for an Indo-Chinese audience. Details of this competition will be announced within the month in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. If you live and work in this region, please spread the word amongst colleagues whom you believe would benefit from participation in this professional development. Deadline for Abstract Submission: 26 October 2007 Notification re. Abstract Selection: 16 November 2007
• The 6th Annual Illinois Online Conference (IOC) for Teaching & Learning will be held February 13-15, 2008. LearningTimes is proud to produce this unique event, which features dozens of presentations by and for K-20 professionals. Keynote Sessions this year span both 3-D virtual *and* physical learning spaces. Julian Lombardi of Duke University will explore Croquet, an open environment for creating collaborative virtual worlds for learning, while Rachel Gutter, the School Sector Manager of the US Green Building Council, will focus on making our ground-based learning more eco-friendly and sustainable. In addition, several IOC 2008 sessions and networking events will be held in 3-D spaces like Second Life and Qwaq Forums. Mignon Fogarty, host of the award-winning "Grammar Girl" podcast, will deliver a live, interactive webcast keynote on February 13, 2008. IOC 2008 features over 75 education professionals delivering workshops and presentations as timely and diverse as "Navigating 3D Worlds" and "Green Schools: Benefits for Students, the Environment, and the Bottom Line". Participants from more than 10 countries will attend this truly global online event. All live online sessions are recorded and available for viewing at any time, so there's no need to adjust your schedule February 13-15 in order to take advantage of the conference. In advance of IOC, the LearningTimes Green Room podcast team caught up with keynoter "Grammar Girl" to discuss the amazing success of her podcast and how it helps educators worldwide. In their most recent episode, you'll also learn the backstory about how Mignon wound up teaching a grammar lesson on Oprah Winfrey's show! The interview is now available online at: http://www.ltgreenroom.org/ For information on all the IOC 2008 presentations and conference activities visit the web site at: http://www.ilonlineconf.org/
• 080122 - Time: 4am UTC (which is 5pm NZ and 3pm East Australia) Tuesday 22nd January 2008. Where: Skypecast link: http://tinyurl.com/3695df What about: A talk about ecological, economic and social/political forecasts, some educational models in response, and then grounding it all in to a real practical educational development for Travel and Tourism Sector and Education. With references to key global economists, environmentalists and political scientist (names TBA), and to innovative educational models, we will finally ground big picture thinking into real hands on developments between Otago Polytechnic, Illawarra Institute, and Michigan State University and their development of new curriculum.
• 080121 - Monday, January 21 NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session Vetting Second Life Learning Materials: MERLOT’s SaLamander Project Wainbrave Bernal (aka Jonathon Richter, University of Oregon) will lead a session on SaLamdner Project “The project mission is to enlist people to collaborate to find, index, and discuss aspects of the 3D Virtual World “Second Life” that has educational value and share in the research, development, and training opportunities associated with those factors.” When Jan 21 9:00am PST Where: TBA More Info: http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page - Wainbrave's presentation slides: http://sl.nmc.org/2008/01/21/salamander-summary/

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• iicall2 2007 Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning University of Waterloo, 7-8 December 2007 Research in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning (ICALL) integrates natural language processing into a computer-assisted language learning environment. For such research to be innovative, successful and sustainable, it arguably needs to combine linguistic modeling, second language acquisition research and insights from foreign language didactics with representations and computational linguistic algorithms capable of integrating the information from these models. The iicall2 will explore these interfaces of ICALL. Information about the conference is available at http://www.purl.org/i-call. The conference starts with an invited workshop by Roy Lyster on "Classroom-based research on proactive and reactive approaches to form-focused instruction" (Friday 7 Dec, 2pm). Regular papers are given on Saturday.
• 071202 - There was a seminar running Nov 12 through Dec 2, 2007 at http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=668 - Social Media in Education Facilitators: Tia Carr Williams, Ian MacLeod, and Therese Weel; Live Session Moderators: Paul Stacey and Sandy Hirtz. Description: What are the implications for educators and learners as they move towards greater use of social media? In this seminar we will seek to define exactly what social media is, its uses in education and the implications for educators, learners and administrators. This seminar discussion and presentations are organized in collaboration with BCcampus Online Learning Communities. Presentations: Elluminate room for all live sessions * Tues November 13 Tia Carr Williams and Ian MacLeod | The Social Media in Education Landscape | Elluminate Recording Thurs November 22 Jason Toal | Tagging Recording Thurs November 29 (recording of) Brian Lamb | Exploration, Implementation, and Innovation - The website models all manner of social networking tools.
• The IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG will be collaborating with British Council Milan on the BC Milan/LTSig Conference ’07. Dates - Monday 26 Nov – Wednesday 28 Nov Title - “Learning Technologies: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Pedagogy” Theme – Looking at how pedagogy can lead technology and avoiding technology leading pedagogy We are currently inviting proposals for speakers. If you would like to submit a proposal please follow the link http://ltsig.org.uk/ and note the following schedule leading up to the event. Schedule finalised End September Registration begins Beginning October Conference 26 - 28 Nov Best Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou Coordinator IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG
• EgypTesol 2007 is November 16 -17, 2007, at the Cairo Sheraton The regular part of the convention is soliciting proposals for: Papers (45 minutes), Demonstrations (45 minutes), Panel Discussions (90 minutes), and Workshops (90 minutes). At the same time, the Electronic Oasis is soliciting proposals for: --Demonstrations, which take place within the environment of an Internet/software fair, where a number of computer stations are set in an open area for on-going visitors to drop in at their convenience and view what the demonstrators are presenting in order to learn from their expertise. A demo session is a mini presentation that is to be repeated within the 45 minute time slot allotted. --Workshops, which are conducted in a computer lab where the presenters provide hands-on training to a number of participants as to any computer-mediated application for language teaching, each seated at a separate PC. --Presentations, which are held in a room with a seated audience, with a computer and data show available if needed. To submit, go to http://www.egyptesol.org/ to the Online Proposal Center, and click either on Main Convention or on Electronic Oasis. We hope you will share your knowledge at the EgypTesol convention. The deadline for the call for proposals is August 31, 2007.
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, ACTFL 2007 in San Antonio, 15-18 November 2007.
• GLoCALL (Go Local Go Global) Joint Conference APACALL with PacCALL to be held at Hanoi University (Hanoi, Vietnam) 2-4 November & SEAMEO RECTRAC (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) 5-7 November 2007: http://glocall.org/. Plenary Speakers GU YueGuo, Beijing Foreign Studies University Deborah Healey, Oregon State University, U.S.A. Scott Windeatt, Newcastle University, U.K. Featured Speakers Stephane Charitos, Columbia University, U.S.A. Andrew Ross, Brown University, U.S.A., and Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi UAE
• Here are the two virtual platforms for the e-learning keynote taking place on November 2nd 12:30 Sydney time (check your time: http://tinyurl.com/24hhwy 1. Adobe Connect - http://breeze.webqem.com/elearning07/ 2. Secondlife - search for ' jokaydia ' and teleport to the meeting area. Help files on Secondlife can be located via the SLEducation wikispace - http://sleducation.wikispaces.com/ Help files on Adobe Connect are available at http://nswlearnscope.com/wiki/index.php/Adobe_Connect * Please note - this is a broadcast Adobe Connect session. You will be able to interact by text chat only. The sessions will be recorded and made available for your future interraction. More information on the session: http://beewebhead.net/2007/10/28/cooking-up-a-storm-in-education/ Looking forward to seeing many of you there :-) Lots of goodies for lunch in SL Bee
• SWALLT Conference, October 26-27, 2007, Stanford University
  Theme: Web 2.0: Casting a Wider Net
  
  SouthWest Association for Language Learning Technology (SWALLT)
  Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  October 26th-27th, 2007
  Abstract deadline: July 30th, 2007
  
  SouthWest Association for Language Learning Technology (SWALLT) http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hirc/SWALLT/ held at the Stanford Digital Language Lab from October 26-27, 2007. SWALLT is seeking proposals for presentations or hands on workshops related to application of Web 2.0 technologies in language instruction.
• the K-12 Online Conference has listed its presenters here: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=100. According to http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=83 this year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a preconference keynote during the week of October 8. This year’s conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries.” Content related to the conference can be aggregated at http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/k12online07
• 2-day TEA SIG conference which will be taking place in the beautiful Adriatic resort of Opatija, Croatia, on October 19 & 20, 2007, titled: "The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Benefits and Limitations". The aim of this conference is to look at several cases where the CEFRL has been put to use and what some of the outcomes have been. The event will appeal to professionals in the field of ELT such as course book designers, textbook writers, test writers, teachers and teacher trainers - in fact to all who are directly involved in language teaching and testing. We would like to create a forum where all of these parties could share and compare their experiences of using the CEFRL. Proposals for talks and workshops are invited from teachers, teacher educators, researchers, assessors and materials and test writers. Plenary speakers will be Dave Allen, Sue Hackett, Keith Morrow, Kari Smith and Zeynep Urkun. You can find more information at www.teasig.com.
• The 3rd International Conference of the Independent Learning Association: Exploring Theory, Enhancing Practice: Autonomy across the Disciplines, will be held at Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan on 5-8 October 2007. Theorists and researchers from all academic disciplines are invited to join with language educators from Japan and beyond in an interdisciplinary exploration of learner autonomy. The aims of the conference are to provide participants with opportunities to expand their theoretical horizons and to reflect on practice, and to support and consolidate growing interest in self-access learning and learner autonomy in Japan. In order to stimulate discussion, leading scholars from Japan and around the world have been invited to speak on a variety of topics: ü Henri Holec, CRAPEL, University of Nancy II, France (Autonomy in language learning: Past, present, future) ü James Lantolf, Pennsylvania State University, USA (Autonomy and sociocultural theory) ü Klaus Schwienhorst, University of Hannover, Germany (Autonomy and CALL) ü Yoshiyuki Nakata, Hyogo University of Teacher Education (Autonomy and motivation) ü Kathleen Graves, School for International Training, USA (Autonomy and teacher education) ü Naoko Aoki, Osaka University, Japan (Autonomy in language learning: Past, present, & future in the Japanese context) ü Koichi Nishiguchi, Osaka University, Japan (Autonomy and sociocultural theory) ü Kojiro Asao, Ritsumeikan University, Japan (Autonomy and network-based language learning) ü Tomoko Yashima, Kansai University, Japan (Autonomy and willingness to communicate) ü Mamoru Morizumi, Obirin University, Japan (Autonomy and teacher education). Proposals are invited for presentations and posters related to autonomy in language learning and other disciplines. http://www.independentlearning.org
• The 17th Annual IATEFL-Hungary conference "Change in and through English Language Education" is to be held in Budapest on 5-7 October 2007. The main focus of the event will be the Notion of Change in ELT. The deadline for submitting Speaker's Proposals and early bird registration is 31st March. More information and downloadable forms at http://www.iatefl.hu
• COSELLO Conference on Open Source in Education and Language Learning Online Special Theme: The problem of language learning online – Is Moodle the answer? Friday 28th to Saturday 29th September 2007 University of Iceland Reykjavik, Iceland Invited Speaker: Carol A. Chapelle Professor of TESL and Applied Linguistics Iowa State University Registration is now open online: http://conferences.odg.cc/cosello/
• The Third International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning at USQ’s Springfield Campus (Brisbane, Australia) 26–28 September 2007
• Workshop on NLP for Educational Resources In conjunction with RANLP-2007 September 26, 2007 Borovetz, Bulgaria http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007
• Sep 20-22 (2007) TBI conference in Hawaii http://www.hawaii.edu/tblt2007/
• EuroSla 2007 - The 17th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association will be organized by Newcastle University, UK. 11- 14 September 2007 THEME OF THE CONFERENCE: Interfaces in Second Language Acquisition Research Plenary speakers - Judith Kroll, Pennsylvania State University, USA - Christophe Pallier, Cognitive Neuroimaging Research Unit, INSERM, Paris, France - Manfred Pienemann, Newcastle University, UK / Paderborn University, German= y - Natascha M=FCller, University of Wuppertal, Germany Conference website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/eurosla17
• GITEX Shopper and Consumer Electronic Expo 2007 at Airport Expo Dubai, 6-12 Sept 2007
• 070905 There is a EuroCALL Virtual Strand at the EuroCALL conference http://www.eurocall2007.com/ taking place from 5 – 8 September in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. The Virtual Strand includes streamed presentations from the conference, and conference blog and chat space, in addition to a limited number of invited, interactive, online presentations lasting approximately 40 minutes. Enrolment is now open for the pre-conference workshop programme to be held on Wednesday 5 September. *Please note that participation in the Virtual Strand workshop is Free of Charge.
  'Virtual Strand Workshop'* Presenters: Lesley Shield Peppi Taalas David Barr HALF DAY 10.00 G0100 To register please go to the conference website at http://www.eurocall2007.com. More information from the organizers:
  • WHO IS IT FOR? You can join the Virtual Strand if you're: - unable to attend the conference in person - in Coleraine, but want to take part in the Virtual Strand too
  • WHAT DOES IT OFFER? A virtual conference space including: - Selected, streamed plenary and other presentations live from the conference - Archived versions of these to watch in your own time - Real-time, online presentations from invited speakers. Confirmed presentations by: Vance Stevens "Mastering competencies for collaboration and aggregation in distributed learning networks" and Agnes Kukulska-Hulme & Lesley Shield "Can mobile devices support collaborative practice in speaking and listening?" - Real time chat area including: Online presence indicator Shared Web-browsing Interactive conference blog Helpdesk support Pre-conference Workshop NB: the chat and shared Web-browsing tool presence indicator have been developed for use with Internet Explorer 5.x or higher only.
  • To register for the Virtual Strand (free) go to http://www.eurocall2007.com and follow the links in the sidebar to the Virtual Strand page, or link directly here: http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/eurocall/conference_format/virtual-strand/index.html. Once you register and are approved in the Google Group, you'll find The Virtual Strand's homepage http://vsportal2007.googlepages.com/home points to many of the other links:
    • The blog, which needs to be read from the bottom up: http://eurocall2007.blogspot.com/
• The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07) The 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'07) 24 - 27 August 2007, Haikou, China http://www.hainu.edu.cn/htm/icnc-fskd2007
• Meanwhile, back in the Real World, The Second Life Community Convention Education Workshop is running August 24-26th at Hilton Chicago. See: http://slcc2007.wordpress.com/education-track We are arranging final details and need your help. Please complete this brief survey http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/phpq/phpq7/fillsurvey.php?sid=3 (only 14 quick questions) We are planning a Saturday night social event at a local restaurant. If you want to save a seat, please indicate as well! Your responses will help us gather resources, plan for traffic, etc. Thanks, Your friendly SLCC team: Dan, Jeremy and Beth
• 12th International CALL Research Conference HOW ARE WE DOING ? CALL & MONITORING THE LEARNER DIDASCALIA, University of Antwerp Language Institute 20-22 August 2006 Conference topics include: - Student monitoring, assessment and evaluation; - Evaluation of technologies and systems (pre-use and post-use); - Quantitative and qualitative data gathering; - Tracking and Logging; - Stand-alone courseware versus online; - Self-assessment for autonomous language learners; - Washback toward teacher assessment; - Phenomenographic and other approaches; - Scaffolding and Negotiation of Meaning; - Computer-Assisted Language Testing; - E-portfolios; - Curriculum and Syllabus design; - Managing Language Learning; - Grading ; - Answer Evaluation and Feedback; - Reporting. Keynote speaker: Robert Fischer, Executive Director CALICO For more information, please go to http://www.didascalia.be Prof. dr. Jozef COLPAERT < http://www.ua.ac.be/jozef.colpaert >, University of Antwerp: http://www.ua.ac.be, Director DIDASCALIA Research Centre: http://www.didascalia.be Editor of The CALL Journal (Taylor & Francis): http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09588221.asp
• The 4th International Conference on Computer Assisted Systems for Teaching & Learning Japanese (CASTEL-J) will be held at the University of Hawaii, Kapiolani Community College, August 3-5, 2007. Homepage: http://castelj.kshinagawa.com/ Blogs, wiki, taggin' , online music, podcasts, AJAX, to name a few, have evolved considerably in the past years. As a result, computers and other technologies are being used more and more in our classrooms. This means that the teaching/learning of the Japanese language is also rapidly changing. We are hoping you might be interested in sharing your experiences with using technology in the teaching of the Japanese language and would like to ask you to share these experiences with us at the 4th International CASTEL-J conference in Hawaii. We welcome proposals for papers (20 min. followed by 10 min. discussion), panel sessions (70 min. followed by 20 min. discussion) posters, or workshops which deal with Japanese teaching/learning and computer technology. All submissions must be received by August 31, 2006, now extended to Nov. 30, 2006. Submissions are accepted by e-mail. Please submit your proposal as an e-mail attachment to proposal@kshinagawa.com. This seems like a pretty cool conference: The hosting campus will provide wireless internet connection to the participants during the conference - all conferences should provide this! Vance
• At Loyola College, Chennai (Madras) India, August 3 - 5, 2007, there is a three-day conference “New and Emerging Technologies”. The conference is jointly organized by IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG and ELTAI. It offers the perfect combination of a country with a rich ancient tradition, a modern venue, a wide variety of thought-provoking talks, examples of technology implementation in language teaching, reflections on the current state in technology use in language learning and hands-on workshops offering the participants a chance to gain skills in a variety of areas. Registration for the conference and its social/cultural events are available at http://ltsig.org.uk The conference programme should be uploaded soon at http://ltsig.org.uk In the meantime, here is a taster of the talks and workshops. Talks on: Talking to the Digital Natives: Building Connections and Community on Web 2.0 Exploring Wikis for Written Language Beyond the language classroom: Mobile learning with Podquests Speaking and Listening Online and at a Distance Evaluating user responses to students’ blogs, wikis, forums Using mobile technology to teach soft skills in ESL/EFL classrooms E-learning: The myth and the reality Using Interactive Whiteboards to Teach English as a foreign language Fostering Collaborative Reflectivity among Teacher Trainees through Asynchronous Discussion Forums. E-assessment as aid to ESL/EFL learners: Planning, Designing, and Managing the Tools. A Web-based Audio Reader for Extensive Reading and Extensive Listening The Role of Teachers and Online Community Networks in Facilitating Social Interaction Developing Video-Based Materials for Teacher-Trainers of ESL Workshops on: Training Learners for Autonomy in Web-based Listening Using Wikis in Language Learning and Teaching From Video Production to Video Blogging Blogging and Learner Autonomy Using MOOdle
• Campus Technology 2007 July 30 - August 2, 2007 Washington Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC Event Focus: Leadership challenges and technology solutions Website: http://www.1105info.com/mivsnx_bcimgrik.html. Review Past Poster Session Topics: Visit http://www.1105info.com/eeamnn_bcimgrik.html For complete 2007 Proposal Submission Guidelines: Visit http://www.1105info.com/mivsnu_bcimgrik.html
• The 5th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2007 (Orlando, Florida, USA. July 12-15, 2007). This conference is accompanied by "a package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at EISTA 2007 web page. For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: http://www.cyber-inf.org/eista2007 Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics."
• IADIS International Conference e-Learning 2007 Lisbon, Portugal 6-8 July 2007 - http://www.elearning-conf.org/. George Siemens will be there.
• the iEARN Annual Conference (http://www.iearn2006.nl/) in Enschede, Holland, from July 2 to July 7th - "It would be nice to meet a Bawer or Webhead there. Hugs, Isabel "
• First Conference on English-Speaking Countries´ Cultural Studies Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4-5 July 2007 CELTICA (www.celtica.com.ar
• ED-MEDIA 2007 -- Vancouver, Canada June 25 - June 29, 2007 http://www.aace.org/CONF/EDMEDIA/
• Spoken Online Learning Events: The need for a new paradigm in languages research and practice - sponsored by the British Association for Applied Linguistics and Cambridge University Press, with focus on theoretical, pedagogical and research issues related to the oral learning/teaching of languages and cultures online. The seminar will be simultaneously webcast to maximise participation. 22-23 June 2007, at the Open University, Milton Keynes http://www.open.ac.uk/baal-cupseminar2007-sole
  
  CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION TO REGISTER Theme: Behind the hype and the unrealistic expectations surrounding e-learning, there is a genuine global expansion of online teaching and learning. And given the importance of interactions in both a cognitive and a socio-cultural model of second language acquisition, it is no surprise that language teachers have been pioneers in using computer-mediated communication. This seminar will create a space for in-depth discussion and reflection about an area that is newly established and growing but as yet little researched: spoken online language learning. Drawing on theoretical expertise from the invited researchers, we expect to explore and address what is emerging as the major issue for oral learning of languages and cultures online: technologies have been developing faster than pedagogical and methodological reflection and practice is often still characterized by a trial-and-error approach.
  
  Objectives: * To develop a shared understanding of a new disciplinary area drawing on a range of domains * To address major issues for oral learning of languages and cultures online * To address the limitations of existing pedagogical parameters for spoken online learning and teaching * To re-evaluate theoretical paradigms underpinning research in spoken interaction * To examine and extend the repertoire of analytical tools and methodologies * To bring together scholars in synchronous online interaction, online discourse, spoken interaction at a distance, communication studies, multimodality and the spoken mode, and online pedagogy * To establish networks of shared interests * To open up avenues of investigation and provide a stimulus for new research projects * To involve early career researchers by offering two student bursaries and by webcasting all discussions
  
  Speakers: Discussion will be led by 3 invited speakers: Professor Cynthia White, Massey University (New Zealand); Professor Dorothy Chun, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), editor Language Learning and Technology; Dr Glenn Stockwell, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan).
  
  Participants: The seminar will run from 10.00 a.m. on Friday June 22nd to 5.15 p.m. on Saturday June 23rd. It will take place at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at The Open University (OU), with virtual links to researchers in North America, Asia and Australasia. Members of CALICO (the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) and JALT-CALL (Computer assisted language learning section of the Japan Association for Language Teaching) will be participating at distance. The entire proceedings will be webcast from the OU, offering the possibility for an unrestricted audience to =91lurk=92; active participation at a distance being limited to emailing questions and observations for discussion. Two of the invited speakers will participate by live video link; the third will be physically present. The novel combination of online and face-to-face elements in the seminar will allow us to bring together researchers working in the area and to reflect the nature of the learning events that are the subject of the seminar. A maximum of 30 places are available for on-site participants. If you would like to attend, please fill in the form below. The deadline for registration for the event is 11th May 2007.
  
  Fee: The total fee for the seminar will be =A365 per onsite participant. This will cover lunch and refreshments (coffee and tea) on 22nd and 23rd June.
  
  Postgraduate Studentships: Two postgraduate full time student scholarships are available, which will cover all costs (including food and accommodation but excluding travel). Applicants should state they are applying for these scholarships on their registration form, provide proof of full time student status and a short (maximum 350 word) summary of their research and why the seminar is relevant to it. If they would like to present a paper, they should also complete the =91submission to present=92 form and include the 250 word abstract of the proposed paper. Preference for award of the scholarships will be given to postgraduates presenting papers.
• 070613 3rd French spoken MoodleMoot Conference * UPDATED * IUT "A" Paul Sabatier - Castres, France June 13, 14 & 15 2007 http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33
• Fourth International Seminar on English and Empowerment in the Developing World at the Aga Khan University Centre of English Language (June 9 to 10, 2007). The objective of the AKUCEL Seminar 2007 is to address issues related to the critical role of English language in empowerment. This seminar offers an excellent forum for English language teachers, trainers and professionals from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, policy makers, and industry / organization representatives such as you to share reflections, experiences, research, and to establish links with their counterpart institutions and individuals in Pakistan and abroad. The seminar includes plenary sessions, panel discussions, and paper presentations on both theory and practice in English language teaching / learning and the issues involved. The themes of the seminar are: * English in the global perspective * Links between English language and employment * Economic factors in language planning * Language and gender * Politics in language teaching * Language and culture * English for specific purposes * Teacher education * ICT and language education * Cross cultural communication * Distance learning The seminar will include competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as workshops, and a small number of invited speakers for the key note addresses, plenary and featured sessions.. We hope that the AKUCEL Seminar 2007 will be an opportunity to build on relationships, network with people from various parts of the world, and have a wonderful time! Details are available on: http://www.aku.edu/news/seminars/cel2007
• LEARNING THROUGH ONLINE EXCHANGES: TOOLS, TASKS, INTERACTIONS, MULTIMODALITY, CORPORA GRENOBLE , France , 7 to 9 June 2007 http://w3.u-grenoble3.fr/epal/index.htm The conference focuses on online learning and teaching, both at distance and blended, and its core theme is online interaction. Based on the socio-constructivist assumption that learning is an eminently social phenomenon, our view is that human interaction has to be at the centre of the online educational process. However a great many courses fail to take sufficient account of online interaction. As a report on e-learning at tertiary level in France has shown, production and delivery of digital resources are all too often given priority over pedagogical communication and support. Yet today information and communication technologies can facilitate certain types of shared practices that may be easier to set up and to support than in a face to face situation. Among these are small-group or whole-class peer activities, discussion and debate, and cooperative or collaborative production. These shared practices form the focal point of the conference. They are articulated into several strands, designed to examine how they are mediated by tools, how different tasks may trigger different forms of exchange, how they may be supported by teachers, what methodologies may be used to collect, archive and analyse their digital traces, and last but not least what epistemological issues they raise. Papers on networked-based language learning and teaching, including teacher training, are expected to feature large in the conference slots but contributions about interactive online learning within other discipline areas are also welcome, the criterial aspect being online interaction. Submissions are invited in to the following six strands. · selection, use and impact of tools on interactions, affordances; · tasks and types of exchanges, communication scenarios, different aspects of shared learning; · role of the teacher in fostering interaction and learning, in developing learner autonomy, in evaluating outcomes; · online interactions from the learners’ point of view: the socio-affective, socio-cognitive and socio-cultural dimensions, establishing the social bond; · methodologies for analyzing interactions (including multimodality); · structuring and sharing corpora of learner data. The conference is pluridisciplinary: language learning and teaching research, education and educational technology, information and communication research, cognitive sciences and tool design for computer-based learning. Official languages: French and English. All papers will be published online. Authors will be invited to submit their papers for publication in a refereed publication, online or print-based (to be confirmed).
• JALTCALL 2007 Conference 'CALL: Integration or Disintegration?' Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, June 1-3, 2007 http://www.jaltcall.org/conferences/call2007/ Theme: The theme of the JALTCALL 2007 Conference is "CALL: Integration or Disintegration?". Presentations may include the following areas: - Description of projects including CALL as an integrated course component - Description of projects implementing multiple modes of technology - Innovative ways of integrating CALL in and out of the classroom - Discussion of the future direction of CALL as a encompassing field - New strands of technology use in language learning environments Proposals are encouraged in either English or Japanese. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mike Levy Associate Professor, School of Languages & Linguistics, Griffith University, Australia; Author of "Computer Assisted Language Learning: Context and = Conceptualisation" (Oxford University Press, 1997), Co-Author of "CALL Dimensions: Options & Issues in Computer Assisted Language Learning" (Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates, 2006) & Co-Editor of "Teacher Education in CALL" (John Benjamins, 2006)
• CALICO 2007 will be at Texas State University "The Many (Inter)Faces of CALL" May 22-26, 2007 http://calico.org/conference/publicBrowse.php
• May 24-26, 2007 in Istanbul Sabancý University School of Languages International Conference on Foreign Language Education, Tuning in: Learners of language, language of learners. Conference website: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/sl/languageconf2007. You can access the Conference Registration Form from: http://www.languageconf2007.org/registration.html
• The 5th International Conference on ELT in China & the 1st Congress of Chinese Applied Linguistics Call for Papers Hosted by: China English Language Education Association, Beijing Foreign Studies University Co-hosted by: Translation Association of China Association of Chinese Sociolinguistics, International Society for Chinese Language Teaching National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education of BFSU Organized by: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Time:May 16-21, 2007 Venue:FLTRP International Convention Center Theme:Language, Education and Society in the Digital Age Sub-themes: • First Language Acquisition (e.g. Child Language, Mother Tongue Education) • Second Language Acquisition (e.g. Natural and Instructed L2 Learning, Child and Adult L2 Learning, Problems in Migrant Education) • Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education (e.g. Methodology, Syllabus Design, Learning and Teaching Materials) • Contrastive Linguistics and Error Analysis • Language Evaluation, Assessment and Testing • Educational Technology and Language Learning (or CALL)• Learner Autonomy in Language Learning • Bilingual or Multilingual Education (e.g. Immersion Education)• Written and Visual Literacy • Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Stylistics • Business Communication (e.g. Communication in the Professions, Language for Special Purposes)• Translating, Interpreting and Mediation • Multimodality in Discourse and Text (e.g. Language and the Media) • Sociolinguistics (e.g. Language Contact and Language Change, Language Mixing, Language Planning, Language and Gender)• Multilingualism and Multiculturalism • Intercultural Communication • Lexicography and Lexicology • Psycholinguistics (e.g. Language Production and Language Comprehension)• Others Working Languages:English & Chinese Forms of Presentation • Individual Papers A block of 30 minutes will be designated to an individual paper presentation, in which 20 minutes are for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. • Poster Presentations Posters are for one-on-one discussion of work in progress. A block of time will be designated when presenters are available to discuss their posters. • Symposia Symposia are scheduled for three-hour blocks. Organizers of symposia may divide their time as they choose, but time should be allocated for opening and closing remarks, presentations, panel discussions (if included), and extended audience response. Organizers serve as the liaisons between participants and the program committee • Workshops Workshops are for demonstration of works of practical nature, such as courseware, software or classroom techniques etc. A block of time will be designated to the workshops. Abstracts: 500 words Abstracts Submission Deadline: Sep. 20, 2006 All abstracts should be submitted by filling up the abstract submission form on our official website: http://www.celea.org.cn/english/5celea.asp (404 not found Jan 10, 2007). Expected Number of Participants:1500 Registration:$US180; $US140 (for full-time students only) If you have any inquiries please contact: Mr. Liu Xiangdong (celea@fltrp.com) Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press +86 10 88819582 Mr.Xu Jiajin (ustcxujj@sina.com) Ms. Yang Luxin (lyang2003@gmail.com) National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, BFSU TEL:+86 10 88816828
• The Eduserv Foundation is pleased to announce our third annual Symposium, to be held at the Congress Centre in London on Thursday 10th May. The event will attempt to look past the hype surrounding virtual worlds such as Second Life and evaluate whether they offer real opportunities for learners at UK educational institutions. The symposium is intended for policy makers and practitioners working in the areas of information and communication technology and e-learning service delivery in UK HE and FE institutions. Specifically, we hope that people attending the event will: * gain a greater understanding of Second Life and virtual worlds in general * hear a range of different views about the issues involved in using Second Life to support elearning * have an opportunity to put questions to the Second Life developers and other experts. The programme for the day can be accessed from our website http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/symposium/2007/. The event is free to all participants and lunch will be provided. There are a limited number of places so early booking is advised. If you want to attend this event please go to our online registration page www.revelation-events.co.uk/forms/eduserv.
• Martin Dougiamas will be at the First Canadian Moodle Moot May 3 - May 5, 2007 The pre-conference activities are Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - Athabasca University http://www.athabascau.ca/, BC Campus< http://bccampus.ca/>, BCED Online < http://bcedonline.com/> and knowplace < http://knowplace.ca/> are proud to offer the First Canadian Moodle Moot < http://moodlemoot.ca/ > which will take place both online and face-to-face (We'll be gathering in Edmonton, Alberta for the face-to-face portion of our Moot and are finalizing the details now.) The Canadian Moodle Moot is of interest to anyone who uses (or wants to use) Moodle to work with others including: - educators at all levels - trainers in all areas of work and business - New and questioning Moodlers, - Moodlers and general misfits, and - Geeks, Techies & Developers. To stay in touch with moodle moot activities go to: http://moodlemoot.ca and create a login and password and join our mailing list to stay up-to-date. Some other speakers:
  • Jason Cole is the author of O'Reilly's 'Using Moodle'. It's a how-to guide for teachers on using the world's most popular open source course management system. His current interest is in the intersection between Moodle and open content.
  • Richard Wylie will be presenting about the New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment Project and the benefits for his country. https://eduforge.org/blog/blog.php?/archives/285-NZOSVLE-and-related-projects-an-Overview.html
  • Michael Penney is from Humboldt State University in California and has been administering the Moodle project at HSU since 2002. He manages student and staff programmers and support staff to develop and deploy Moodle as an enterprise level system.
  
  Our streams are: K-12 and Post Secondary issues Moodling for Business Moodle Administration Moodle Tools and Techniques Explanations of our streams and proposal are found here:
  Face-to-face/online: http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle1.7/mod/resource/view.php?id=4 0nline:
  http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle1.7/mod/resource/view.php?id=5
  For more information Join our mailing list: http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle1.7/mod/resource/view.php?id=43
  Take a look at our recorded Elluminate webcast that explains All About The First Canadian MoodleMoot. Created by our Moot online moderators who will be supporting our Moot presenters. Flash Version: http://www.odysseylearn.com/elive/mm/MoodleMoot%20Promo.html Java based Version: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2007-04-05.0845.M.DC7F7D039A99E9E4814310965647A0.vcr
• The European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) of the Council of Europe (Graz, Austria), invites proposals for its third medium-term programme (2008-2011) entitled : EMPOWERING LANGUAGE PROFESSIONALS: Competences - Networks - Impact - Quality. The new programme will address four thematic areas: A. Evaluation B. Continuity in language learning C. Content and language education D. Plurilingual education Proposals are sought from professionals in language education for projects focused on the above themes. Proposed projects should make a tangible and innovative contribution to the practice of learning and teaching of languages in Europe, should contribute to the overall aims of the ECML's programme and correspond both to the vocation of the Centre as well as to the values of the Council of Europe. Full information on the framework of the new programme and on the format, content and expected outcomes of projects is given in the Call for Proposals document. This can be accessed via the website set up by the ECML to guide and assist potential project coordinators in drafting their proposals: http://www.ecml.at/call. Full information does not include the DATE of the actual conference, though a submissions dealine of May 1, 2007 is mentioned.
• The annual conference of the American Associated of Applied Linguistics in Costa Mesa, California, 21-24 April 2007. The general theme of the colloquium is "CALL contributions to SLA."
• the Learning Technologies SIG is organizing a PCE on Writing with Computers The event will be hosted at the computer labs of the University of Aberdeen. The day starts with a keynote talk by Diane Slaouti of the University of Manchester and then continues with a series of hands-on workshops. Topics to be covered during the workshops include discovering the full powers of Word and Powerpoint, interactive online projects and an exploration of various writing software. For more information and abstracts check our website: http://ltsig.org.uk During the conference there will also be an interesting SIG day on the 20th April. We will have talks on podcasts, interactive whiteboards, concordances and much more! Overall the Aberdeen conference is looking very interesting and it is full with presentations that relate to the interests of the Learning Technologies SIG.
• Language Technology is now in its second year as an official section of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference! After last year's successful inaugural run of 24 papers and 2 special sessions, Language Technology is back for the 60th anniversary of the KFLC. The conference will take place 19-21 April 2007 on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Abstracts are invited in all areas and aspects of technology and language including, but certainly not limited to: - using tech tools and techniques for language instruction in all skills and on all levels - integrating technology into literature, culture and linguistics classrooms - employing technology-based research and publication in language scholarship - guiding language educators toward optimal use of technology in their teaching and research - managing language technology in an academic setting In addition to individual abstracts, proposals will be considered for complete panels of five papers organized around a common theme. The KFLC has a tradition of attracting scholars from a broad range of languages and specializations. This year's conference will have sessions in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Luso-Brazilian, Slavic, and Spanish studies, as well as Language for the Professions. We would also like to see this broad range represented in the Language Technology sessions, to encourage cross-pollination of ideas among the individual languages and disciplines working to integrate technology into their teaching and research programs, and to encourage participants from the various literature, culture and linguistics sessions to join us in our discussions. For more information on conference logistics, please visit http://www.uky.edu/as/kflc/
• 7th Annual English Language Teaching Conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS and Registration Language Center, SQU Dear ELT colleagues, The Organizing Committee of the Annual ELT Conference is pleased to announce the dates for the 7th Annual Conference which will be held on 18th and 19th April 2007 at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. The theme of this year’s conference is “Working with ELT Materials: From Design to Implementation”. The conference will focus on the design, writing and implementation of ELT materials. Please visit the Conference Website: http://www.squ.edu.om/lan/conference/
• IATEFL in Aberdeen (April 18-22), register online (http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/2007/index.php). There is a Learner Autonomy SIG Pre-Conference Event on Wednesday the 18th (http://www.learnerautonomy.org/PCE2007.html). Speakers: Barbara Sinclair, Ema Ushioda, Flávia Vieira, Marina Mozzon-McPherson and Viljo Kohonen. There was an outstanding online component to this conference which I might try and record here.
• Voyaging into a new decade! TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 17-19, 2007 Pre-conference dates: April 3-4, 2007 BLENDING REALITY AND MULTIMEDIA IN UBIQUITOUS LEARNING Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu INTRODUCTION. E-Learning is passé. U-learning is the new wave globally in higher education. Ubiquitous learning encompasses e- learning and emphasizes learning anytime, anywhere and anyway in both formal and informal lifelong learning environments. As u-learning and Web 2.0 technology evolve, social interaction, intercultural communications, and global collaboration increases in importance. Social networking and learning communities are integral components of u-learning. Through online social networks, young adults today gain a sense of community that is important in their daily and social life. How can we learn from this? How can we learn from our students? What is the status of social networking (Facebook, Mixi, etc.) and online learning communities today? Have they succeeded or have they withered away? How can we complement our students' prior experiences with interacting socially online? How can we assess learning in this new environment? Will mobile phones become synonymous with u-learning as proponents advocate? How do we train faculty and staff and engage them to support productive learning communities? Will learning communities help bridge the Internet divide? How do we "feed and weed" effective learning communities or social networking systems in the U-learning era? Will virtual worlds such as Second Life become a new learning environment?
  
  THEME. TCC will offer papers and presentations on the evolution, trends, successes, or failures of learning communities and social networking systems in higher education. The coordinators, however, are interested in a broad range of topics that highlight the use of educational technology, including but not limited to the following: * Online, hybrid, blended or other modes of technology enhanced learning * Distance learning including mobile learning * E-learning and ubiquitous learning * Student success factors in online learning * E-portfolios and other online assessment tools * Technology implementation and services in learner centered environments * Emerging technologies for teaching and learning (blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc) * Creating and delivering multimedia including learning objects * Building and sustaining learning communities * Student orientation and preparation * Open content and open source * Accessibility for persons with disabilities * Global learning and international education * Professional development for faculty and staff * Gender equity, the Digital Divide, and open access * Online student services (tutoring, advising, payments, etc) * Technology use to enhance communication and collaboration * Institutional planning and change catalyzed by technology advances * Educational technology use in Asia & the Pacific, Europe, South America, and Africa. For details regarding papers and general session presentations, see: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2007/tcc/presentation-format.html/
• 6th LANGUAGES & BUSINESS Conference for Language Training and Business Communication When: April 16 - 18, 2007 Where: Lindner Congress Hotel Duesseldorf, Germany Organiser: ICWE GmbH, Leibnizstrasse 32, 10625 Berlin - Germany, Tel.: +49 - 30 - 327 61 40, Fax: +49 - 30 - 324 98 33 Contact: Ms Astrid Mendoza, info@sprachen-beruf.com www.sprachen-beruf.com Short description: For everyone who takes a professional look at the subject of language training for business, LANGUAGES & BUSINESS 2007, offers a forum for the exchange of experiences, and the chance to get up-to-date with the matter. Selectively chosen experts will inform participants via practical workshops, up-to-the minute presentations and comprehensive plenary sessions about the benefits of foreign languages and intercultural communication skills for achieving success in business. In addition, the accompanying exhibition will allow both providers and users to come together in discussions, exchange ideas, and find relevant solutions for their individual requirements. www.sprachen-beruf.com
• NEALLT 2007: The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) will hold its annual conference March 30 - April 1, 2007 at the Language Resource of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. This year's theme will be "The Language Learning Space: Real and Virtual Uses" and proposals were encouraged in the following categories: Promoting language learning, Serving instructional and research objectives, Showcasing emerging technologies, Lab management, and Future directions in CALL, Language Resource Centers. Registration NEALLT membership is included in the conference registration fee. Conference registration & lodging information will be posted soon on the NEALLT website at http://www.neallt.org
• UNTELE 2007 conference, 29-31 March 2007: Cross-cultural communication, global networking and second language acquisition - The seventh Compihgne conference on the Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching has as its main theme: Does global networking contribute to trans-cultural communication? Does trans-cultural communication contribute to foreign / second language acquisition? Papers reporting on: 1- ICT-based trans-cultural communication, 2- second language acquisition through trans-cultural communication, are particularly encouraged. Paper proposals on the other topics related with computer-assisted language learning, ICT-based teaching, etc. are also encouraged. A pre conference session has been scheduled on 28 March 2007 for research students. Plenary speakers: Juliana DE NOOY, University of Queensland, Australia, "Negotiating cultural difference in Internet discussion" Rachel GIORA, Tel Aviv University, Israel, "Negation in context: What do you mean when you say 'no'?" Claire KRAMSCH, Berkeley, USA, "Symbolic competence, the neglecte dimension of cross-cultural communication" For further details contact untele@utc.fr or visit the conference web site at : http://www.utc.fr/~untele
• Third Annual KnowTIPS 2007 March 28 - April 1, 2007 Building on the success of previous KnowTIPS online conferences, this year's conference will be an exciting exploration into whats new for Surviving and Thriving (TIPS) in the online world < http://knowtips.ca/> CALL FOR PROPOSALS Tipsy and the knowTIPS < http://www.knowtips.ca/moodle/index.php> team is now Calling for Proposals < http://knowtips.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=569 > . The emphasis for this conference is to work on developing online skills and knowledge, working with people who are willing to share their expertise and experience. For more information, please check out our site: http://knowtips.ca/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=628
• The National Foreign Language Resource Center, in conjunction with the Center for Japanese Studies and the Department of Second Language Studies, at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa are pleased to announce the17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRAGMATICS & LANGUAGE LEARNING Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA March 26-28, 2007 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/pll/ The conference will address a broad range of topics in pragmatics, discourse, interaction and sociolinguistics in their relation to second and foreign language learning, education, and use, approached from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, on topics such as * L2 talk and text * Developmental L2 pragmatics * Pragmatics in language education * Pragmatics in language assessment * Pragmatics in computer-mediated communication * Theory and methodology in pragmatics
• TechEd 2007 12th Annual Technology in Education International Conference & Tech Exposition is in Ontario Convention Center, Southern California on March 25 – 28, 2007. This year’s theme is Inspiring the Vision and we will have over 250 sessions covering a wide range of topics including Administrative Technologies, Conquering the Digital Divide, eLearning, Mobile Learning and Workforce Education, to name but a few. For a full list of topics, and details about each, please visit our website at www.techedevents.org/2007. For ideas about what sort of sessions we had in 2006, please visit our TechEd 2006 website at www.techedevents.org/2006 According to its promotional materials, " TechEd is the world's leading hands-on Technology in Education Conference and Exposition focusing on issues related to Technology in the Learning Environment including eLearning, Accessibility, Mobile Learning, Digital Media, Standards-Based Assessment and more! Companies like Apple, ETS, Adobe, Tool Factory, Podango, TechSmith, AMX and many more showcasing real-world solutions to critical issues facing the Education Community. CEU Credits Available. Keynotes: John Couch, Vice President of Education, Apple, Inc. Tim Magner, Director of Education Technology, US Dept of Education Kenneth "Casey" Green, Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project Jeanne Hayes, President, The Hayes Connection "
• Wireless Ready: Podcasting Education and Mobile Assisted Language Learning, a one-day special event in Nagoya, Japan, on 24th March 2007 This one-day event considers the role of podcasting and mobile learning devices in foreign language learning. How is podcasting being used in the language classroom? How have mobile learning devices (phones, PDAs, digital music players) promoted autonomous language learning? How are Web 2.0 technologies (wikis, blogs, podcasts) affecting second language acquisition? An IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG Event Supported by Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan (NUCB) Japanese Association of Language Teachers, Computer Assisted Language Learning (JALTCALL) Australian Flexible Learning Framework The Bob and Rob Show/English Language Podcast ELT Calendar Visit our website at: http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp
  
  Keynote Speakers
  • Professor Steve McCarty 'Web 2.0 Technologies and iPods for Research and Mobility' Osaka Jogakuin, Japan
  • Professor Michael Vallance 'iPod therefore iWrite: the Challenge of 'informed use' of Learning Technologies' Future University Hokkaido, Japan
  • Michael Coghlan 'Education Goes Mobile: New Technology Means New Learning' Australian e-Learning Consultant
  Panel Speakers Include
  • Robert Diem The Bob and Rob Podcast
  • Bill Pellowe ELT Podcast / ELT Calendar
• TESOL 2007 is in Seattle March 21-24, 2007 http://www.tesol.org/. Webheads are tagging their activities here wia2007tesol. Barbara Dieu has been tagging her conference photos that way http://www.flickr.com/photos/bee. Handouts to CALL-IS Electronic Village sites can be found at http://www.call-is.org
• METSMaC 2007 http://www.metsmac.org in Abu Dhabi, UAE March 17-19, 2007
• Midwest Regional Conference 2007, "Facing a River of Challenges," March 12–14 in Chicago, Illinois. Other 2007 EDUCAUSE regional conferences: Southwest Regional Conference—Austin, Texas, February 21–23 NERCOMP (North East Regional Computing Conference; An EDUCAUSE Affiliate)—Worcester, Massachusetts, March 19–21 Western Regional Conference—San Francisco, California, May 7–9 Southeast Regional Conference—Atlanta, Georgia, June 11–13 http://www.educause.edu
• Third International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research to be held March 2-4, 2007. http://www.readingmatrix.com/. The Reading Matrix has started a blog. The purpose of this blog is to create a forum for an active conversation among educators, researchers, graduate students and anyone else involved in language, literacy, and/or technology education. http://readingmatrix.blogspot.com/. The basic aim of this conference, Coming Together: The Shrinking Global Village, is to provide a venue for educators, scholars and graduate students to present work on a wide variety of pedagogical, theoretical and empirical issues as related to the multi-disciplinary field of second and foreign language teaching and research. This conference will also give you an opportunity to make global connections with people in your field. For more information and conference details visit http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html
• 3rd CamTESOL conference on 24-25 February 2007, www.CamTESOL.org
• 1 day Certificate Course conducted by Heather Baba TA LI-SIG Co-Chair, ILCs: From Plans to Practice, on Sat 24 Feb at Zayed University, Dubai. This 'course' comprises 4 workshops covering: the role and operation of an ILC, ILC planning, ILC technology & VLEs, and IL/C materials. More information can be found at http://ilearn.20m.com/news/newevents.htm - and reports and photos of previous sessions can be found by following the Events link on our site. The course is 50 dhs for TA members and 70 for non-members to cover admin and catering costs. If you would like to participate, please send an email to tailearn@yahoo.com
• "New Technologies in ELT" 17-18 February 2007, INTO, University of East Anglia, Norwich A two-day seminar organised by IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG Topics which will be covered in hands-on workshops include: Interactive Whiteboards Podcasts and Vodcasts Computer-Mediated Communication Corpora Reading and Writing Online Places are limited so register early. For more info visit: http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk/
• CALL Workshops at Kinjo Gakuin University 1. MOODLE Mastery and 2. How to Podcast: A Step-By-Step Guide WHAT: Two days of workshops on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) –One on Moodle, and one on Podcasting. INSTRUCTOR: Chris Houser, Kinjo Gakuin University DATE: February 15 (Thursday--Moodle), February 16 (Friday--Podcasting) WHERE: Kinjo Gakuin University, Sponsored by Kinjo Gakuin Multimedia Center AUDIENCE: Open to any interested person—Please feel free to let others know of these workshops. REQUIREMENTS: No knowledge of Moodle or Podcasting is required, but a basic knowledge of how to use a computer is necessary . FOR MORE INFORMATION: See website http://www.studypatch.net/workshops
• The Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform (CTER) Online Master of Education Program from the University of Illinois will feature a hybrid conference live from the University of Illinois in Champaign and through the IOC community, http://www.ilonlineconf.org. The conference will be held February 14-16, 2007. Featured speakers include Tony Bates, Margaret Maag, Chip Banks and Jonathan Finkelstein. Presenters and participants online will be given access to both the IOC and CTER conferences. This conference - which is attended by participants from all across the globe - is held entirely on the Internet using: live virtual classrooms, recorded presentations, email, web poster sessions, synchronous chats, discussion areas, and other Internet technologies. IOC was created to focus on issues and concerns of K-20 classroom faculty and related technology support, learning resources, student services, and workforce development professionals. IOC 2007 takes place in a LearningTimes Online Conference Community - an online environment in which groups of participants, both small and large, gather electronically to learn, collaborate and network. Not sure how an online conference works? Want to experience the conference community before registering? Highlights from last year's conference are available at: http://home.learningtimes.net/ioc2006
• February 2-9, 2007 - The Connectivism Online Conference took place. More information here
• January 27-28, 2007 - The Inaugural ADU IATEFL ELTM & TD SIGs International Conference on Managing Change in ELT, Abu Dhabi University Campus, Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi UAE. http://www.adu-iatefl.org
• Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 12 - 15, 2007 Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, the Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio, and the Pacific Beach Hotel, Hawaii, USA Since many people have individually asked for an extension of the submission deadline, we are extending the deadline for submissions to Wednesday, September 13th, 2006. Call for papers, abstracts, student papers, work-in-progress reports, research proposals, workshop proposals, poster sessions, research tables, or reports on issues related to teaching, practitioner forums, panel discussions, and tutorials. For more information on the format of submissions see http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm

February 2-9, 2007 - The Connectivism Online Conference took place:

• Conference site: http://umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies/connectivisim/.
• The Moodle: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/
• A good selection of links on connectivism in the Moodle wiki: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/mod/wiki/view.php?id=19
• Schedule of presentations at http://umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies/connectivisim/schedule.php (times in CST, Winnipeg)
  • February 2, 2007 - Connectivism: Learning Conceptualized Through the Lens of Today's World By George Siemens Knowledge and learning are forefront in the progress and advancement of humanity. At no other time in history have we stood before as rich a panorama of opportunity as we do today. Our access to information, knowledge, global conversation, research, and the experiences of generations past provide a firm foundation on which to build the society of tomorrow. Yet openness, abundance, and access raise new concerns. The ability to cope with today's knowledge deluge, to engage learners in co-creation of content, and to enlarge classroom walls to include diverse perspectives requires a new conception of learning. Theories of cognition and learning that have served well in the past seem frail, ineffective, and out of touch with the reality of learners and the new context and characteristics of knowledge today.
  • February 5, 2007 - Connective Teaching: How the Read/Write Web Challenges Traditional Practice By Will Richardson In the traditional information delivery model of instruction, teachers were seen primarily as content experts who were charged with making sure their students "learned" a certain set of knowledge. This model was built inherently on the idea that knowledge and information were scarce and that if students weren't exposed to it in school they would be unlikely to learn it elsewhere. Today, however, knowledge and information are abundant and fast changing. In this environment, the emphasis of our teaching must shift away from content to instead focus on helping students build their own networks of trusted sources through which they can find and evaluate relevant content on their own. But what does this shift mean for our own personal and professional practice? Can we guide our students to be independent, lifelong, connected learners without first building our own communities and trusted networks for learning? And how can we best model for our students the effective and ethical use of a connected world in our own lives? This presentation examines some of the ways in which expectations for professional practice are changing to reflect this new learning environment and looks at the challenges to implementing those changes.
  • February 6, 2007 - Balancing Agility and Stability in Higher Education By Diana Oblinger Information technology has catalyzed the creation of new forms of communication, self-expression, and collaboration. Social networking, podcasting, and videoblogging exemplify a do-it-yourself culture where peer-to-peer, multi-modal communication challenges traditional text-based, authoritative channels. The co-creation of material and the emergence of amateurs as authorities, as epitomized by wikipedia, signal a cultural shift among many of today’s learners. And, with the Web as learners’ information universe—not the library—no learner is ever far from abundant information. In a rapidly changing environment, how well is education keeping pace with learner expectations, IT capabilities, learning principles, and cultural shifts? How much agility—or stability—is required?
  • February 7, 2007 A Challenge To Connectivism By Bill Kerr "The skin is not all that important as a boundary" BF Skinner The notorious Skinner got that one right. The boundary issue is crucial. In considering the learning process we need to ask: What happens inside our body / brain, what happens outside, in the external environment, and how are the inside and the outside connected? What is the mind, where is it and how does it work? These are core theoretical questions about learning with immense practical significance. The necessary process of formulating a new learning theory ought to incorporate and struggle with a modern synthesis of philosophy, cognitive science (including artifical intelligence research) and the history of learning theory. My critique of George Siemen's Connectivism suggests that a better job could have been done.
  • February 8, 2007 - The Recognition Factor By Stephen Downes Connective knowledge is based on pattern recognition of emergent phenomena in networks. In order for a pattern to have any meaning, therefore, it must be recognized. This means that knowledge formation in a connective environment is a combination of two elements: the perception, which is the pattern to be recognized, and the perceiver, who does the recognizing. Knowledge, therefore, is not uniquely inherent in a network, but exists only insofar as it is recognized to exist. This talk will explore this argument and its implications on a theory of connective knowledge.
  • February 9, 2007 - Research and Net Pedagogies By Terry Anderson The development of any new pedagogical theory or practice depends upon high quality and systematic research to validate the theory and the resulting intervention's result and efficacy. Traditionally, education has imported medical and science models of quantitative study and social science and humanity tools such as survey's and qualitative investigation to substantiate and develop new pedagogy. However, there is increasing evidence that the context of real education and learning is too complex, idiosyncratic and culturally bound to benefit from the types of research used in other disciplines. Recently "design-based research" a methodology devised by and for educators has been celebrated as an effective way to study and develop new pedagogy. This presentation overviews design-based research theory and methodology, provides examples and overviews the critique of other research methodologies
    : Click here for the Elluminate recording and find George's blog comments here: http://connectivism.ca/blog/2007/02/some_additional_thoughts_from.html
• The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association offers the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2007 season. This is a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2007 Convention in Seattle, WA. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2007 participants and those who can participate only virtually. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in a free, six-week, wholly online session of the EVO, Jan 15 -Feb 25, 2007. Please visit our Announcement Web page to select one among the various offerings. http://evo07sessions.pbwiki.com

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• Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning IICALL 2006 http://purl.org/net/iicall Workshop and Pre-Workshop Courses, December 14-17 Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University Research in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning (ICALL) integrates natural language processing into a computer-aided language learning environment. For such research to be innovative, successful and sustainable, it arguably needs to combine linguistic modeling, second language acquisition research (learner and activity modeling), and pedagogical insights from foreign language teaching (instruction modeling) with representations and computational linguistic algorithms capable of integrating the information from these models. The current state of the art in the various relevant fields seems favorable for interdisciplinary ICALL research. Complementing the focus on communication and culture in foreign language teaching since the 60s, second language acquisition research since the 90s has clearly established that awareness of language categories, forms and rules---and thus linguistic modeling and the processing needed to identify those properties---is important for an adult learner to successfully acquire a foreign language. At the same time, most research groups currently lack the interdisciplinary orientation, background, or ties needed to develop and combine the linguistic and learner/cognitive modeling with computational processing, and to develop and test intelligent tutoring systems as part of real-life language teaching. The IICALL workshop and the pre-workshop courses are intended to foster exchange and in-depth discussion of these interfaces of ICALL. Participation in the workshop and the pre-workshop courses is free, for presenters as well as for non-presenters. If you are planning to attend the event, please register at http://purl.org/net/iicall/registration PRE-WORKSHOP COURSES: December 14-16 Information on the pre-workshop courses by Kathleen McCoy (U. Delaware), Eckhard Bick (Southern Denmark U.) and Susan Bull (U. Birmingham) can be found at http://purl.org/net/iicall/courses.html --- WORKSHOP: December 17 (http://purl.org/net/iicall/program.html)
• International Conference of Information Technology and Management (ICITM2006) Hong Kong, 11-13 Dec, 2006 Conference Website: http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/icitm2006/ Contact: icitm2006@comp.polyu.edu.hk Paper Submission: csnkliu@comp.polyu.edu.hk or csronnie@comp.polyu.edu.hk All papers should be submitted online through our conference web site. IT and management has grown mounting influence in business, industry and education, the conference would like to consolidate most recent research results in information system, knowledge management, commercial intelligence, electronic commerce, E-education application. The area covers the concepts and theories of Information Systems, Industrial applications E-Education and Business Management. The topics varies from software, e-learning, office automation, textile and garment, automobile electronic, logistics, retails, supply chain, financial, accounting banking, lawyer, government, education to media sector. As part of the mission of the Institute of Systems Management is to facilitate the application of the information technology to industrial enterprises, we promote cross-fertilization over interdisciplinary areas of business application and information systems. Our industrial case presentation and tutorial sessions will bridge the gap between academics and practitioners.
• Knowledge Oasis Muscat (www.kom.om) will hold eGames 2006, 10 - 11 December at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Muscat, Oman. Now in its second year, eGames is the premier conference for the Gulf’s gaming community. With speakers from leading operators, developers, publishers and academics worldwide, eGames 2006 will focus on Mobile and Serious Games. Attendees will walk away having shown, discussed and seen state of the art innovation in the mobile and serious games industry. http://egamesoman.blogspot.com/index.html. Gavin Dudeney is an invited speaker, and will deliver a Second Life workshop with David Wortley.
• The Third Pacific Association for CALL Conference (PacCALL) at Nanjing University in cooperation with Southeast University, Nanjing, China from 16 to 19 November 2006. The theme for this year's conference is: "Globalization and Localization of CALL". The confirmed keynote speakers are: * Michael Coghlan, eLearning Consultant, TAFE SA, Adelaide, Australia * Dr. Cynthia White, Massey University, New Zealand * Prof. ZHAO Wen, Head of the Language and Multimedia Centre, School of Foreign Studies, Northeast University * Dr. GU Yueguo, from Beijing Foreign Studies University In addition to the plenary sessions there will be a special "Moodle for Language Learning Strand" on November 17. Pre- and Post-Conference workshops as well as optional tours of Nanjing and environs are also being arranged. PacCALL website at http://www.paccall.org/2006/proposal-e.php The program is available for viewing at: http://www.paccall.org/2006/PacCALL2006-PrelimProg.html Michael Coghlan placed the audio of his presentation here: http://michaelc.podOmatic.com/entry/eg/2006-11-21T04_50_51-08_00 and it is also here: http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/pd/PacCALL.htm
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2006 in Nashville, 16-19 November 2006
• The “K12 Online Conference” is for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 and will include a preconference keynote. The conference theme is “Unleashing the Potential.” The conference agenda is available at the following url http://k12onlineconference.org/docs/k12online06-agenda.html
• Fourth International Congress. “Pragmatics, Semantics, and Cultural Awareness in ELT” (Topics in other areas also welcome) to be held from September 28th to October 1st , 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico. The Call for Papers and other information at: http://www.anupi.org.mx \
• Sept 24-28, 2006 The 2nd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'06) and the 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'06) will be jointly held in Xi'an, China. ICNC'06-FSKD'06 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of computational algorithms inspired from nature, including biological, ecological, and physical systems. It is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of techniques and methods are being studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. Registration to either conference will entitle a participant to the proceedings and technical sessions of conferences, as well as the conference banquet, lunches, and tours in Xi'an. The joint conference calls for research papers reporting in specific areas including neural computation, evolutionary computation, quantum computation, DNA computation, chemical computation, information processing in cells and tissues, molecular computation, computation with words, fuzzy computation, granular computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, ants colony, artificial immune systems, etc., with applications to knowledge discovery, finance, operations research, and more. Deadlines Paper Submission 15 April 2006 http://see.xidian.edu.cn/nc2006/
• Symposium on Teaching English in a Mobile and Networked World invites all and sundry to join this one day 'online event' being held by EON Foundation on Sunday, September 24th, 2006. It will be an opportunity to share, discuss and invent how best to use digital media to teach English in a mobile and networked world. It is an informal, experimental and practice based symposium for English language professionals and others. It is free to join. Visit http://thelivingclassroom.org/moodle/
• EUROCALL 2006, Granada, Spain, 4-7 September 2006 Conference main theme and title: Integrating CALL into Study Programmes http://www.ugr.es/~eurocall/. Submissions are invited under the following categories: (i)Academic Paper, (ii)Show & Tell, (iii)Poster Presentation,(iv) Postgraduate Poster Presentation, and should be submitted by January 31, 2006. Full submission details and evaluation guidelines are available on the website. Selected papers from the conference will be published in the ReCALL Journal or the EUROCALL Review(formerly the EUROCALL Newsletter).
  
  There will be a Virtual Strand which will take place at the same time. The plenary sessions will be recorded and available online, and there will be opportunities for folks to interact via a blog and "blobber" which "will allow you to talk (in voice or real time text) with people at the conference and others who are attending virtually." There will be a pre-conference workshop to show people how to use the tools to be used during the conference. Register in advance for this workshop at http://www.eurocall2006.com/virtual.htm, free of charge.
  
  Podcast: There are "MP3 interviews on the conference blog: Thinking of organising a future EUROCALL conference? "Dont worry be happy" is Tony Harris' encouraging advice... More from Tony on this topic as well as an interview with Robert O'Dowd about his workshop and talk on online exchanges. Have a look/listen at http://eurocall2006blog.blogspot.com/"
• 12th International CALL Research Conference HOW ARE WE DOING ? CALL & MONITORING THE LEARNER DIDASCALIA, University of Antwerp Language Institute 20-22 August 2006 Conference topics include: - Student monitoring, assessment and evaluation; - Evaluation of technologies and systems (pre-use and post-use); - Quantitative and qualitative data gathering; - Tracking and Logging; - Stand-alone courseware versus online; - Self-assessment for autonomous language learners; - Washback toward teacher assessment; - Phenomenographic and other approaches; - Scaffolding and Negotiation of Meaning; - Computer-Assisted Language Testing; - E-portfolios; - Curriculum and Syllabus design; - Managing Language Learning; - Grading ; - Answer Evaluation and Feedback; - Reporting. Keynote speaker: Robert Fischer, Executive Director CALICO Deadline for abstract submission: 24 December 2005. For more information, please go to www.didascalia.be
• The Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF) is a venue for data-based and theoretical papers on areas of basic research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/pacslrf2006/ The plenary speakers for this conference are: - David Birdsong, University of Texas - Patricia Duff, University of British Colombia - Rod Ellis, University of Auckland - Bonnie Schwartz, University of Hawai'i PacSLRF 2006 is a joint collaboration of the University of Queensland and Griffith University. It is part of LINQ 2006 http://www.linq06.une.edu.au/, a series of linguistic and applied linguistics meetings to be held at the University of Queensland in July 2006
• The next MoodleMoot will be at The Open University in Milton Keynes, Tuesday July 25 & Wednesday July 26 2006. There may be a pre-conference warm-up, consisting of a Moodle hack-fest for developers, on Monday 24 July 2006. http://moodlemoot.org/
• EISTA 2006:The 4th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: July 20-23, 2006 – Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.conf-info.org/eista06
• IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2006 13-16 July 2006 - Dublin, IRELAND (http://www.iadis.org/es2006) co-located with IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2006 (http://www.iadis.org/ml2006) * Co-organised by Trinity College, Dublin * Keynote Speakers (confirmed): Norm Sondheimer, co-Director Electronic Enterprise Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Daniel Rainey, Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services for the National Mediation Board, USA Professor Nigel Ford, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan, USA Professor Cathie Norris, University of North Texas in Denton, USA * Conference Background and Goals The IADIS e-Society 2006 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment / eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management.
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2006 National Education Computing Conference (NECC) to be held in San Diego, California - July 5-9! Keynote Addresses by Nicholas Negroponte and DeWitt Jones Professional Development Opportunities for the Whole Education Team! K-12 Teachers o Great new ideas for integrating technology throughout the curriculum o Hands-on training with practical and useful technology applications Technology Coordinators & Staff Developers o Exciting, effective solutions for staff development o Proven strategies for technology funding, sustainability, and support Library Media Specialists o Best practices for promoting information and media literacy o Electronic resources for students, teachers and administrators Administrators & Policy Makers o Leadership development and guidelines for improved education outcomes o Assessment of teacher and student use of technology Teacher Educators o Curriculum ideas for methods courses o Models for meeting accreditation requirements Special Programs for Superintendents Day and Special Borderlands Project targeting needs for English Language Learners and Bilingual Education. Go to http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/program/ for program details For registration information go to http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/registration/ Volunteers are needed: www.cue.org/necc06/
• European Writing Centers Association (EWCA) 2006 Conference will be hosted by Bopazigi University on June 24-26, 2006. The Conference, whose theme is Connecting the Dots, emphasizes our aim to: 7 create a forum for bridging local/ international models of Writing Center theory and practice 7 cultivate links among Writing Center practitioners and writing experts locally and internationally 7 contribute to the evolution of Writing Center work in interdisciplinary contexts -WAC and WID 7 strengthen linkages with secondary education, Distance Learning, and even Non-governmental Organizations. Among the other themes of the conference , the one given below could draw the interest of TESLCA-L members. Theme I. Writing Center Theory and Cross-cultural Practices 7 Writing Center: location / facilities/ atmosphere/ ethics 7 Curriculum -- standard/ adjunct and teaching-learning materials development 7 Strategies for encouraging writing 7 Feedback strategies -- higher-order and later-order concerns 7 Tutoring and peer-tutoring in multilingual contexts 7 Writing Center technology 7 Online Writing Centers and Labs 7 Call for Proposals and other related pages are accessible at the URL for the Conference: http://ewca.sabanciuniv.edu/ewca2006.
• the 2006 International Symposium of Computer Assisted Language Learning (June 2-4, Beijing) was successfully concluded at the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP) International Convention Centre in Daxing, Beijing. The Symposium featured five keynotes. Among them were two Chinese scholars: WEN Qiufang of the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) on corpus-based learner language research; GU Yueguo of the Institute of Online Education of BFSU on issues arising out of his five-year hands-on work on EFL online education in China. The international keynotes were Phil HUBBARD of Stanford University (US) on CALL teacher education, Gary MOTTERAM of Manchester University (UK) on social computing, and Mike LEVY of Griffith University (Australia) on CALL research. There were 69 confirmed presentations, out of the 102 accepted abstracts from among the 177 abstracts initially submitted to the Symposium. A total of 160 (presenting and non-presenting) participants came from educational institutions in 8 countries and regions in the world, with its majority from universities in China (80%). The theme of the event was revisited, reflected upon and discussed at a panel discussion attended by the keynotes, the presenters and other non- presenting participants on Sunday afternoon. This Symposium as a co-hosted event was initiated and coordinated by Gary MOTTERAM of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) Learning Technologies SIG committee, WANG Wei of the National Research Centre of Foreign Language Education of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), and LIU Xiangdong of the FLTRP and the China English Language Education Association (CELEA). Symposium follow-up will be posted on its official website available at http://call2006.fltrp.com/, as well as in a Moodle space: http://web-1.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/mdl2/course/view.php?id=7 you should be able to see in "Courses" -- International Symposium ... Click on this link and then: "Login as guest".
• IATEFL LTechs conference organised jointly with the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (26-28 May 2006). Registration forms are available at http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk/cyprus2006.htm Below follows a sample of the many interesting talks which will be presented at the conference: A Virtual Learning Environment in an ESL Classroom Teaching academic writing and the Internet Interactive Whiteboards - the difference that makes the difference? Learners speak their minds. Apres le deluge - What is the role of video in modern language learning ? Teaching Literature Online : to 'e' or not to 'e', that is the question! Effects of Virtual Mediated Process Writing on University Students' Academic Achievement in Nigeria Email and Second Language Speaking The use of concept mapping software for argument building in the language classroom E-Learning: From Hype to Hope Can CALLs Success Stories in Industry be Mirrored Effectively in the Educational Environment? Computer-enhanced input enhancement and focus on form(s) in instructed SLA The art of speaking over the Net Enhancing English learners listening and speaking skills in a virtually real language situation with the assistance of video technology Wikis and Autonomy Nicenet Virtual Classroom Using the Interactive Whiteboard in the ELT classroom Chinese Students Learning Styles and CALL Promoting Higher Levels of Students' Active Participation with Interactive Whiteboard Technology "2006, Big Brother is still teaching you. The use of cameras in the ELT classroom" Collaborative Writing and Technology: Two Case Studies Sound Advice for Online ESL Design The role of the computer as a reinforcement tool outside the classroom context Integrating technology in English Placement Tests at college level: the test-takers' perceptions Using Distance Learning to teach EFL to Young Learners in Small Multigrade Schools Community-building in text-based SCMC Conductor: Flash-based creation of CALL material
• Since 1994 the Tutor/Mentor Connection has been hosting May and November conferences in Chicago to encourage the growth of volunteer-based tutoring/mentoring programs in neighborhoods with high rates of poverty, too many poorly performing schools, and a lack of interest or involvement from too many leaders. The May 25 and 26, 2006 Chicago conference is supported by a series of on-line forums, which begin on May 2. The organization of this is not nearly as sophisticated as the Webheads convergence of last November, but I feMel it offers a wide range of opportunities for people concerned with these issues to connect and learn from others in a variety of on-line forums. While the face to face conference is in Chicago, the application of these ideas can be in any major city in the world. I hope you'll take a look at the eConference schedule and help us draw participants to the discussions. The web site is http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com/generic54.html
• On May 17 University College at IUPUI hosts a series of on-line workshops http://econference.uc.iupui.edu/. We have two goals: a) we want to teach on-line learning and collaboration concepts so that more people will join in this on-line community in the future; b) we want to teach organizations strategies that make them more effective businesses of operating a non profit tutor/mentor program. This means we need to teach effective marketing, fund raising, evaluation and management, as well as on-line learning and collaboration.
• CALICO '06, Online Learning: Come Ride the Wave, at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, May 16-20, 2006 http://calico1.modlang.txstate.edu. There is a workshop 'nlp in call - computational and linguistic challenges' taking place on tuesday 16 may 2006. registration details are on the conference website (http://calico.org/cgi-bin/hazel.exe?action=serve&item=conf/reg.html&theme=conf). further details (speakers, schedule, abstracts) can be found at http://ccat.uwaterloo.ca/~mschulze/icali_workshop06.html
• The Language Centre 6th Annual ELT Conference, Language Learning in the Cyber Age: Innovations and Challenges 19 – 20 April 2006 Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman http://www.squ.edu.om/lan/index.html
• TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 18-20, 2006 Pre-Conference Dates: April 4-6, 2006 "TECHNOLOGY REMIX: WHAT DO STUDENTS SAY?" Homepage: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu
• 7th e-Learning Forum - April 5, 2006 at Sharjah University, UAE. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Sharjah and University City Professional Network. The organizers are interested in the following topic areas: - IT Tools in e-Learning - The Internet & Education - Computer Aided Learning & Computer Assisted Language Learning - Distance Learning - Mobile e-Learning Applications http://www.sharjah.ac.ae/elearning
• KnowTIPS Second Annual ONLINE Conference Wednesday March 29 - Sunday, April 02, 2006 http://knowtips.ca/. Information and registration at http://www.knowtips.ca/, early-bird price available until MARCH 10, 2006. Pre-conference support for presenters and registrants from March 27-29, 2006 and Pre-conference Tool Acquisition Workshops on March 27 and 28, 2006.
• TESOL Arabia Conference, The Power of Language March 29-31, 2006 Al Bustan Rotana, Dubai, UAE http://www.tesolarabia.org/conf2006/index.php
• 11th Annual TechEd International Conference & Exposition March 27-29, 2006 Pasadena Conference Center, Southern CA We're seeking presentations key to fulfilling the needs of the TechEd audience highlight pioneering methods of delivering education in a learner-centered environment through effective uses of technology, learning communities, diverse learning styles, collaborative partnerships and innovative administrative practices. All primary presenters receive a complimentary conference registration entitling access to all regular conference sessions and activities, including keynote sessions, hands-on computer workshops, and exhibit hall grand opening and daily hall entrance and the "Tuesday Evening Extravaganza" (see http://www.techedevents.org/2006/callforpresentations/index.asp for details and descriptions)
• TechEd 2006 11th Annual Technology in Education International Conference & Tech Exposition March 26 - 29, 2006 Pasadena Conference Center 300 East Green Street Pasadena, California http://www.techedevents.org/2006
• March 14-18, 2006, TESOL 2006: "Daring to Lead" March 15-18, 2006 Tampa, Florida http://www.tesol.org. There are FOUR TESOL 2006 ELECTRONIC VILLAGE SPECIAL EVENTS , USA INTERNET FAIR, APPLICATIONS FAIR, EV MINI-WORKSHOPS, and DEVELOPERS' SHOWCASE; schedule: http://www.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2006/. AT THE FAIRS: Presenters have approximately 20-30 minutes to demonstrate their material. Participants walk around the EV, dropping in and out of demonstrations, thus precluding highly structured presentations. AT THE MINI-WORKSHOPS: One presenter introduces a topic to a small group of workshop participants. The workshop is "hands-on." AT THE SHOWCASE: There is one presenter at a time, demonstrating her/his program. Seating is provided for the audience. The Internet Fair is a TESOL event intended for demonstrations by teachers or teacher-developers who have used Internet-based programs, websites, or activities with students. Demonstrations may highlight student projects, activities or curriculum created for students or educators. (The websites do not have to be created by the teacher/presenter.) Examples: -Email projects -Lesson plan archives for teachers -Vocabulary worksheets using an online thesaurus -Skimming/scanning activities using a local movie theater webpage -Research/writing exercises for investigating Internet hoaxes. The Applications Fair is an event for teachers to share how they use different types of software - in innovative, clever, or just plain efficient ways - in English instruction or assessment during in-class or out-of-class activities. In the past, teachers/presenters have shown how they have used prepackaged language learning software such as Focus on Grammar, Word Attack, Testmaster, Grolier Encyclopedia, or Phraze Craze for improving skills in vocabulary, reading, writing, and speaking & understanding. Teachers have also demonstrated effective and adaptive uses of applications not specifically designed for ESL or other language use such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Yahoo! Groups. Examples: -Using Microsoft Word's comment feature for writing feedback -Using Excel to teach budgeting finances as a life skill -Using PowerPoint for students' classroom presentations -Using Yahoo! Groups for developing class communication -Using HyperStudio to illustrate students' descriptive writing -Using Grolier Encyclopedia with vocabulary worksheets. The EV Mini-workshops are intended to be limited seating events for hands-on workshops where participants will gain experience in adaptation of standard software for CALL purposes. Participants will have the opportunity to create a product or gain depth in use of software. Examples: -Using iMovie -Working with audio and/or video -Working with Discussion Boards -Using BBEdit(Mac) to create and upload HTML files -Setting up a mailing list with Yahoo! Groups -Learning how to MOO -Using Hot Potatoes to create online quizzes -Using Excel for grade calculations. The Developers' Showcase is one of several ways in which the CALL-IS disseminates information about computers and computer-assisted instruction to the ESL/EFL professional community. The Showcase provides an opportunity for the designers of ESL/EFL software to display their work, and for potential users, software developers, and marketers to examine and react to it. We especially welcome projects produced by teachers for their own students or projects produced under development grants. This Showcase includes materials in the following two categories: 1. disk-based software, including floppy-disk, hard disk, and CD-ROMs. 2. web-based software, including both programs that can be accessed directly from the web and those that can be downloaded. The Showcase is not a commercial venue. Only work that is not yet on the market will be considered. More information: TESOL CALL-IS Website: http://www.uoregon.edu/~call/
• The Second Annual Conference for Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing (METSMaC 2006) will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on 14-16 March 2006. The theme of the conference is "Making Connections" and there will be a number of regional and international invited speakers; conference website. Further information about the conference and deadlines are given at the conference website: http://www.pi.ac.ae/metsmac which also contains information about the previously held conference: METSMaC 2005, The First Annual Conference for Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing which was held in April 2005. A copy of the METSMaC 2005 Programme, the Conference Handbook, and the Proceedings of the First Annual Conference for Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing are all available here as PDF files
• Second International Online Conference in Teacher Education Opening Gates in Teacher Education, 2006 Meeting the Challenges in Education and Teaching The Internet, Feb. 13-15, 2006 http://vc2006.macam.ac.il Keynote speaker: Prof. David Berliner, Arizona State University As reflected in its title, the Conference represents the opening of gates to new developments in the field of teacher education and to new ways of thinking about teaching. While there are various themes dealing with teacher education in general, there are also specific themes, one of which is "Digital culture: Teacher educators, teachers and schools." The Conference will bring you into contact with prominent educators from all areas of teacher education and, through them, with updated research in the field. Most important, our conference provides a friendly virtual environment where we can meet as colleagues, share innovative projects and discuss issues that are relevant to us all.
• February 3-4 are the dates for the 2006 spring conference of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and Bilingual Educators (KATESOL/BE), to be hosted by K-State's Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy and a coalition of K-State departments and offices united by a campus-wide mission to promote the educational interests of culturally and linguistically diverse learners and families. Co-sponsors of KATESOL 2006 are the K-State College of Education, the K-State Division of Continuing Education, the Midwest Equity Assistance Center, and the CIMA Center. Co-hosting the event will be the K-State Modern Language Department, the K-State Intensive English Program, and the BESITOS Grants and Scholarship Programs of Kansas State University. The weekend event will kick off with several pre-conference institutes, Friday, February 3rd. Kathy Escamilla, past president of the National Association of Bilingual Educators, will lead an institute on literacy instruction in elementary schools. Mary Wood, director of the English Language Program at K-State, is organizing an institute on how to build bridges between campus and community organizations. Diane Torres-Velasquez, a faculty member of the Center for Mathematics Education of Latinos and Latinas (CEMELA), is leading an institute on literacy for academic success in secondary school math and science. Socorro Herrera, the conference chair for KATESOL/BE 2006 and co-director of the CIMA Center at K-State, is also bringing together leading scholars in applied brain research for another pre-conference institute on Friday. The opening ceremony on Friday evening will feature keynote presentations as well as official announcement and recognition of the 2006 KATESOL/BE Honor Roll recipients. The KATESOL/BE Honor Roll acknowledges the instruction and advocacy provided by dedicated educators across the state on behalf of the culturally and linguisitically diverse learners and families of Kansas. Saturday there will be dozens of workshops and mini-sessions throughout the day, with the annual KATESOL dinner at noon. Publishers from major companies will also exhibit materials and resources to support the teaching and learning of English, other languages, and multicultural education. Registration for the KATESOL/BE conference is available through the K-State Division of Continuing Education, either online (https://www.dce.ksu.edu/cgi-bin/conf/katesol.cgi) or by toll-free phone (800-432-8222). Full information and continual updates on the conference can be accessed at http://www.katesol.org/spring2006 . A Preview of the Kansas TESOL Conference http://www.eslminiconf.net/winter0506/kansas.html February 3-4, 2006, in Manhattan, Kansas

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• MLA Convention Washington, DC, December 27-30, 2005 - The Applied Linguistics Division of the Modern Language Association invited proposals for papers on 1. Computer-Mediated Foreign Language Study 2. Researching Advanced Foreign Language Learning 3. Year of Languages 2005: Research on Heritage Language Learners We invite reports of original research conducted on heritage language learners.
• A TESOL Symposium on ELT in Resource-Challenged Contexts will be held December 16-17, 2005, in Dakar, Senegal. For more information visit TESOL's Web site under "Professional Development".
• EgypTesol convention this year will be held December 2 - 4. We are looking forward to receiving all the creative and novel methods of teaching, research work, technologies, etc. that you have been implementing or experimenting with lately. Please share your valuable ideas/ experiences with other teachers and professionals. . Go to http://www.egyptesol.org and click on "conventions".
• The Second Pacific Association for CALL Conference (PacCALL) will be held at Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China from 1-3 December 2005. The theme for this year's conference is: CALL Directions: New Identities and New Communities Confirmed keynote speakers: * Bernd Rueschoff, Univ. of Essen, Essen, Germany, President of EuroCALL * Mike Levy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Abstracts (max 250 words) for Papers (45 minutes); Demonstrations (45 minutes); and Posters sessions are now invited. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 31 July, 2005. Successful applicants will be notified by August 15th, 2005. Further details can be found via the PacCALL website http://www.paccall.org/
• Learning Management Systems as Communities of Practice: Collaborative engagement designs and implementation techniques for interdisciplinary studies ICCE2005 Workshop Singapore 28-29 November 2005 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS and WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE This workshop, run in conjunction with the 13th International Conference of Computers in Education, focuses upon bringing together colleagues from diverse disciplines to share their strategies for the design and use of computer-assisted collaborative learning methods and environments. Over the past two decades, the transition from models of individual learning to sociocultural models of learning has been accompanied by the rise of networked communications. In recognition of the isolation experienced by many online learners, learning management systems (LMS) are increasingly being designed to provide socially-situated and flexible learning environments. They also have the potential to involve participants in real-world, authentic social practices, and to distribute the information and communication flow in a rhizomatic (connected) fashion. Thus, the continued development toward digital communities of practice is significant for all educators. The workshop will commence with a panel consisting of 5 workshop presenters. Following this panel session, each presenter will speak on their specific topic. Topics covered in this workshop will include: Identifying affordances and constraints in the use of LMS Design of generic LMS learning tools and objects Pedagogical implementation strategies for promoting social interaction via LMS Current and potential LMS applications for interdisciplinary studies The role of cultural learning styles in LMS software and curriculum design Where possible, workshop presenters will be currently implementing, testing or researching ways in which collaborative techniques and generic learning tools can be incorporated into a LMS environment. For more information regarding attendance or paper presentations, please refer to the attached document <?? ed?>. Kind regards, Debbie Turk & John Brine Center for Language Research University of Aizu, Japan
• Emerging eLearning in Abu Dhabi, UAE Nov 20-22. http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/emel2005/Default.aspx
• ACTFL 2005 in Baltimore, 18-20 November 2005
• WiAOC 2005 - Webheads in Action Online Convergence, 18-20 November 2005, http://wiaoc.org
• ETA: English Teacher Association conference in Taipei Nov 11-13, 2005 http://www.eta.org.tw/
• "On the Road to Sustainable Excellence: Communicating Across the Curriculum" to be held at The American University in Cairo, Egypt, November 11-12, 2005. For further information see: http://www.aucegypt.edu/academic/wpconference/
• China 2005 International Conference on Online English Language Education: Prospects and Challenges of Online English Language Education Beijing, Tuesday 18 - Wednesday 19 October 2005 China National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education Institute of Online Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University Latest News We are delighted to announce that the keynote addressers will include the following distinguished scholars: Dr Do Coyle, Dr Weiyuan Zhang, Prof Norman Pritchard and Prof Yueguo Gu. Call for Papers The conference will be jointly hosted by China National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education and Institute of Online Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and will cover most aspects of online English language education in China and around the world. It will include keynote addresses, presentation sessions and workshops. Papers on any aspect of online English language teaching are invited. Papers on the following topics will be particularly welcome: 1 New technology in online English language education 2 Conception and operationalization of online education 3 The roles of tutors and learners and orientation of teaching and learning strategies 4 The knowledge base of online English language education 5 Online English language education curriculum and material development 6 Testing and assessment in online English language education 7 Tutor and learner support in online English language education 8 Affect in online English language education 9 Cost-effectiveness and management of online education 10 Other areas in connection with online English language education Abstracts should be sent by post or (preferably) as email attachments to Prof Zhu Tianxu. http://www.beiwaionline.com/tutor/2005%20OELE%20in%20China/2005callforpaper-e.htm
• Technology for Second Language Learning 3rd annual conference Assessment Issues Friday, September 30, 2005 Memorial Union, Iowa State University Keynote speaker Professor J. Charles Alderson, Lancaster University, UK. In conjunction with the conference of the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MWALT) We invite proposals for papers addressing the issues associated with assessment of language learning through technology and assessment of technology for second language learning. The following questions illustrate some of the themes at the intersection of TSLL and assessment: * How can assessment of learning goals be conducted in CALL programs? * How does the use of assessment in CALL affect students' learning? * How can researchers assess the quality of the experience learners engage in for language learning when they use CALL? * How does the use of technology for second language learning challenge assessment practices? * How can concepts and methods from assessment help researchers to interpret data about performance on technology-assessed second language learning tasks? Papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for discussion. Hosted by the Program in Teaching English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics, Department of English, and the CALL Club, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
• International Congress “Towards Greater Professionalization in Language Teaching III” at the Hyatt Regency in Acapulco (September 29- October 2, 2005).: http://www.anupi.org.mx
• The Community College Foundation will be hosting the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW), Web Application Development Workshop, September 28-29, 2005. As part of our agreement with WOW, and in keeping with our mission to provide low cost training to educators, we have arranged for special pricing for you and your institutions. The workshop is usaully $495, however, by following this link http://www.webprofessionals.org/communitycollegefoundation/ you will be albe to save $200 off the price not only in Sacramento but also in the other two cities the workshop will be held. To find out more about the content being offered at the Web Application Development Workshop please visit http://www.webprofessionals.org/communitycollegefoundation/
• A TESOL Symposium on Dual Language Education: Teaching and Learning Two Languages in the EFL Setting will be held September 23, 2005, at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Dual language educational programs promote bilingualism by using both a primary, local language and English as media of instruction. This symposium will explore ways in which such programs can be developed and implemented in EFL contexts to advance * native language proficiency * academic achievement * proficiency in the foreign language This TESOL symposium offers English language teaching professionals an exciting opportunity to learn from and interact with leading experts in the field. The featured speakers are * Cem Alptekin, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey * Jim Cummins, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Husnu Enginarlar, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, will provide closing remarks. For more information about the program, registration, and accommodation, visit TESOL's Web site at http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=23&DID= 3115 If you have any questions, please contact TESOL's Education Programs Department at edprograms@tesol.org or +1-703-518- 2528. The TESOL Symposium on Dual Language Education is sponsored by ETS TOEFL (http://www.ets.org/toefl/). TESOL also acknowledges and appreciates the assistance of Bogazici University; INGED-ELEA (English Language Teachers' Education Association of Turkey); Aysegul Daloglu, Middle East Technical University; and the American Embassy, Ankara, Turkey.
• Second International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning 18 – 20 September 2005 Meanings under the microscope at The University of Southern Queensland . The Conference This Second International Conference on Pedagogies and Learning has been convened to continue the conversation about pedagogies in the 21st Century and on this occasion to place pedagogy under the microscope as never before! As a presenter you will be facilitating participants’ to question, to reflect, to illuminate, to confirm, make adjustments and transform the way they may conceptualise and talk about pedagogical practice today. http://www.usq.edu.au/education/research/conf/pedagogiesconf2005/presentations/default.htm In addition, a call for papers for the APACALL Book 2 is being sent out to CALL researchers and practitioners. For further information, please visit the 'Research' page of the APACALL Website ( http://www.apacall.org/research/research.html ).
• 2nd International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research September 16-18, 2005 Call for Proposals Deadline for submission of abstracts April 30, 2005 We invite you and your colleagues from around the globe to participate in the 2nd International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research to be held on September 16-18, 2005. The basic aim of this conference is to provide a venue for educators, established scholars and graduate students to present work on a wide variety of pedagogical, theoretical and empirical issues as related to the multi-disciplinary field of second and foreign language teaching and research. This conference will also give you an opportunity to make global connections with people in your field. For a list of possible conference topics visit http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/callforpapers.html Online Abstract Submissions. If you would like to participate as a presenter, please submit an abstract online at: http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/abstract.html For more information visit http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html . A full listing of presentations is available at http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/listings.html Registration Now Open The conference registration fee is $55.00. Please visit http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/fees.html
• NILE 10th Anniversary Conference 2005 2nd to 4th September 2005 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. The theme of the conference is 'Dialogues' . Invited speakers include: Dave Allan; Claudia Ferradas Moi; Barry Grossmith; Jeremy Harmer; Martyn Hobbs; Julia Starr-Keddle; Hitomi Masuhara; Keith Morrow; Antoinette Moses; Nick Owen; George Pickering; Phillip Prowse; Alan Pulverness; Mario Rinvolucri; Prof. Kari Smith; Scott Thornbury; Brian Tomlinson; Steve Walters and Mel Williams. Please see the NILE website for further information and 'Call for Papers' download www.nile-elt.com
• 2005 International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'05) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05) - 27 - 29 August 2005, Changsha, China - Home Page: http://www.xtu.edu.cn/nc2005 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elpwang/nc2005
• EUROCALL 2005 , Cracow (Poland) from 24-27 August 2005. The conference theme is "Fostering Autonomy" - Full conference details may be accessed at: http://www.eurocall-languages.org.pl/
• FLEAT 5: Uniting the World Proposals are now being accepted for papers, presentations, workshops, and poster sessions for the fifth Foreign Language Education And Technology Conference (FLEAT 5) to be held August 5-10, 2005 in Provo, Utah. This meeting brings together the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) and Language Education and Technology (LET) of Japan. Because of the joint nature of the meeting, proposals such as panels or presentations that involve both organizations are strongly encouraged. All proposals should address issues relating to both language and technology. http://ce.byu.edu/cw/fleat5/ . For more information about FLEAT 5 and IALLTs role in this important conference, see the IALLT website at http://iallt.org and follow the FLEAT 5 Conference links. For information about IALLT, see http://iallt.org For information about LET, see http://j-let.org
• China US Education Conference on Multiple Intelligences, Creativity, and Problem Solving, in Beijing,July 19-22, 2005http://www.globalinteractions.org/MultipleIntelligences/Intelligences-home.htm CfP deadline Dec 6, 2005
• Student Modeling for Language Tutors Workshop at AIED 2005 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 18-22 July Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Student modeling is of great importance in intelligent tutoring and intelligent educational diagnostic and assessment applications. Modeling and dynamically tracking a student's knowledge state are fundamental to the performance of such applications. This workshop will focus on student modeling for intelligent computer-assisted language learning (CALL) applications, addressing such domains as oral reading decoding, and reading and spoken language comprehension. http://www.research.ibm.com/people/a/alpert/AIED05/
• 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 10-13, 2005. The best 10% of the papers will be published in Volume 3 of SCI Journal http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp.
• The IEEE Professional Communication conference ... Isa writes "Among the world's major international conferences devoted to academic/workplace English in fields of science, engineering, technology, industry, etc., this conference is one of the very best. I can assure you that you will be overwhelmed by the depth and variety of research in this area." IPCC 2005 10-13 July 2005 Limerick, Ireland Details: http://ieeepcs.org/conference/limerick/
• July 10: AAAI workshop W2: Educational Data Mining Objectives: This workshop focuses on leveraging the ability of computer tutors to record their interactions with students to better understand how to teach students. Detailed workshop description This workshop will bring together researchers interested in educational data mining-using artificial intelligence and statistical analysis to answer questions about how people learn. One important issue we will address in this workshop is how researchers can learn from the fine-grained data collected by computer tutors, including a learner's responses to questions, mouse clicks, and mouse movements recorded at a fine time-scale. Computer tutors are now generating data at a pace exceeding the ability of researchers to analyze it. Tutors often gather up to a year's worth of instruction with hundreds or thousands of users. The challenge is to determine which tools are most appropriate for making sense of these data and to discover which investigations we can make with a microscopic view of student learning. This portion of the workshop will focus on tools and techniques for educational data mining and ask questions such as Which AI techniques are most appropriate, e.g., from information retrieval, data mining or machine learning.? What are the limitations of each tool? Educational data mining data from computer tutors differs from classic data mining in that the software (computer tutor) has probably been explicitly instrumented to make mining easier, and there are sometimes strong, pre-existing psychological theories of how people learn can augment the techniques. Do these advantages provide us with any new capabilities? There is a wide range of issues in education that can benefit from the application of data mining tools. In addition to focusing on the rich mine of computer tutor data, we also propose to arrange a panel discussion with educators, key education administrators, and artificial intelligence and data mining experts to explore the issues that are most important in education and might lend themselves to significant improvement through data mining. Data mining could make impressive contributions in predicting student success, retention, and graduation rates. There are several reasons that data mining can be productive in education applications: 1) State Education Agencies have a wealth of education-related data, 2) most of these data do not conform to assumptions needed in inferential statistics, and 3) the interactions between these data are often complex and nonlinear [Gab2003]. Examples of key data sources include: standardized test scores, graduation rates, discipline problems, and dropout rates. This workshop will facilitate the collaboration between data mining experts and educators to determine the future of educational data mining and the forms that interchange in the two fields can enrich them both. One outcome of this workshop will be to create a repository of data sets from educational data mining that can become a standard set of test cases for investigating new concepts and algorithms, similar in spirit to the UCI data sets. The lack of such a repository has hurt progress in the field. Currently there is only one publicly available data set concerned with computer-learning, and that data set describes learning within organizations. Attendance: Those interested in attending should either submit a paper, or a one- or two-page abstract describing areas of research interest. Workshop attendance is limited to 75 people. Attendance at the workshop requires prior notification to workshop organizers of interest in attending. Submit to: Joseph E. Beck. (joseph.beck@cmu.edu)
• Ruth Vilmi gave a plenary presentation as well as a workshop on *The Best of the Web for Language Teachers* at The SAALT Conference, Pretoria University at noon (GMT+2) on Wednesday, 6th July. Nellie Deutsch and other EFL teachers joined in the international chat session. The session utilized a site for Teacher Training at http://www.writeit.to/sys/course/view.php?id=36.
• First virtual ELT conference - the Future of Modern Languages Teaching - hosted entirely on-line by the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, from 4-10 July 2005. Participants log on from all over the world at their own location and in their own time and are invited to comment on other papers submitted. This virtual conference is FREE. Papers are welcomed within one or more of the following thematic categories: 1. Education Teaching of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures; 2. Multiculturalism in Languages Courses Classes; 3. Internet for Modern Languages; 4. Composition, Creative Writing and Grammar; 5. Teaching Foreign Languages; 6. Teaching Cultural Studies; 7. Teaching Foreign Literatures; 8. The Bologna Process and Modern Languages Courses. For further details please see http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/cv2005
• HERDSA 2005: Higher Education in a Changing World Organised by the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia http://www.herdsa.org.au/2005/ Sydney, Australia 3-6 July 2005
• The 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics/AILA to be held in July 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, has details on the web at www.aila2005.org
• DESIGNING EFFECTIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PLACEMENT TESTS June 20-July 1, 2005 University of Hawai'i at Manoa Facilitators: Thom Hudson & Martyn Clark WEBSITE - http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si05p/ In this 2-week workshop, participants will gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals of creating sound language tests, with a particular emphasis on designing tests to facilitate placement decisions. In the morning sessions, participants will be introduced to various testing concepts in a clear and non-threatening manner. No previous statistical or measurement knowledge is assumed. Discussions of real world issues and problems from the participants' home institutions are welcomed. In the afternoon sessions, participants will get hands-on practice creating test items and analyzing test results. The use of commonly available computer programs (e.g. Excel) to facilitate test analysis will be highlighted. Participants are encouraged to bring data sets from their programs' placement tests to practice setting up, analyzing, and interpreting their data. NOTE: This workshop is aimed at foreign language teaching professionals with placement testing responsibilities who feel they have had limited training and experience in language testing concepts. To apply for this workshop, please submit an online application form by the FEBRUARY 15, 2005 DEADLINE.
• ACH/ALLC conference June 15 - June 18, 2005 at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ University of Victoria / Humanities Computing and Media Centre
• the UK EUROCALL regional workshop on Web-based and local teaching modes takes place on Monday 13 June 2005. There will be a range of international speakers/CALL producers at the workshop sessions and delegates from higher and secondary education backgrounds are most welcome. In conjunction with Developing a pedagogy for CALL? Examples of theory and practice, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 14-15 June 2005: http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/lanlit/csrp/conf/2005/ucall/conference.html and http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/lanlit/csrp/conf/2005/ucall/index.html. This Conference focuses on the pedagogical approaches involved in using CALL and ICT. The conference organising committee is specifically seeking submissions in the following areas: Local or wide-scale CALL/ICT projects designed with a particular pedagogical approach in mind. Theoretical approaches surrounding the development of CALL/ICT pedagogies at institutional, regional or national level. Pedagogical requirements for future/existing CALL courseware Plenary Speakers: Prof. Uschi Felix Director, Research Centre for New Media in Language Learning Monash University, Australia Prof. Graham Davies Emeritus Professor of Computer Assisted Language Learning, Thames Valley University
• JALTCALL 2005 Conference "Glocalization through CALL: Bringing People Together" Ritsumeikan University, Biwako Kusatsu Campus (BKC), Shiga, Japan, 3-5 June, 2005 Theme: The JALTCALL 2005 Conference focuses on the social dimension of CALL at local and global levels, as represented by the term "glocalization." The conference organising committee is specifically seeking submissions in the following areas: - Using CALL to encourage communication between learners at the local level - Using CALL to encourage communication between learners globally - Collaborative CALL research projects - Collaborative CALL learning projects - Local-scale CALL projects with international objectives Submissions that do not deal directly with the conference theme are also most welcome, provided they demonstrate a sufficient level of innovation, quality of research, or suggestions for improvement of the field. CALL researchers from all continents and from all CALL-related disciplines are invited to submit applications. Plenary Speakers: Uschi Felix Director, Research Centre for New Media in Language Learning Monash University, Australia; Hayo Reinders Director, English Language Self Access Centre University of Auckland, New Zealand; Yukio Takefuta Professor Emeritus, Chiba University Bunkyo Gakuin University, Japan. Submission: Submissions will be possible through the Japan Association for Language Teaching CALL SIG website (www.jaltcall.org) from November 1, 2004 through to January 31, 2005. All papers will be vetted by an international panel of experts in a range of disciplines within CALL. Submissions that are thought to have potential in concept or content but do not reach the standard expected for the JALTCALL Conference may be recommended for resubmission based on the comments of the vetting panel. Agenda: Deadline for submission of proposals: January 31, 2005 Deadline for resubmission of proposals: February 28, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2005 Details of presentation schedule: March 30, 2005 Conference Site access: The BKC Campus of Ritsumeikan University is 20 minutes by local train from Kyoto Station. The closest international airport is Kansai International Airport in Osaka. Detailed instructions including a campus map are available from www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/profile/visit_rits/index.shtml#bkc.
• Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education Fourth International Conference June 2-4, 2005 Radisson ­ Metrodome Hotel Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Please visit: http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2005/call.html
• The first blogging conference to be held in the southern hemisphere - incorporating Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia. Date: 20 & 21 May, 2005 Venue: Sydney, and http://digitaldialogues.blogs.com/learning_technologies/2004/11/blogtalk_downun.html (site times out Jan 10, 2007). Initial expressions of interest for referreed paper presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes questions) or panel discussions can be sent to: Anne.Bartlett-Bragg atuts.edu.au Details are currently being finalised and a website set-up with more information - don't let that stop you sending expressions of interest though!!! The organising committee have some exciting international keynote speakers in mind and are determined to make this an event not to be missed in 2005!
• SAS inSchool (www.sasinschool.com) will hold an education forum during the CALICO conference (May 17-21, 2005) hosted by Michigan State University. Middle & High school Spanish teachers, department heads, or supervisors are needed to review materials online and then discuss their impressions in a two hour round table discussion. Participants will receive a $200 STIPEND. For more information, contact: Mimi Stapleton Curriculum Development Specialist mimi.stapleton@sas.com
• CALICO 2005 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM CALL and the Year of Languages: Critical Needs Hosted by Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan May 17-21, 2005 Preconference Workshops: Tuesday, May 17 - Wednesday, May 18 Courseware Showcase: Thursday, May 19 Presentation Sessions: Thursday, May 19 - Saturday, May 21 Use CALICO's proposal submission form at http://calico.org/conference/index.html or request a text version of the form at info@calico.org DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: OCTOBER 31, 2004 All presenters must be current members of CALICO by the time of the conference and are responsible for their own expenses, including registration fees. CALICO is a professional organization dedicated to the use of technology in foreign/second language learning and teaching. CALICO's symposia bring together educators, administrators, materials developers, researchers, government representatives, vendors of hardware and software, and others interested in the field of computer-assisted language learning.
• International House Educators' Conference What's New? Whatever! Friday, 6 May to Sunday, 8 May 2005 This conference is for everyone involved in teacher education, training, development and support. Participants include academic managers, DoSes, trainers and educators, freelancers, writers, training course providers and teachers. This year's theme will be "What's new - whatever!" with speakers deciding to focus on latest developments in teacher education or teaching or choosing to highlight important issues/principles from the past that continue to be important. The conference opens on Friday evening with a plenary talk from Jim Scrivener, before drinks and an opportunity to meet other conference participants. Saturday begins with Adrian Underhill's plenary and there will be parallel sessions at all other times on Saturday and Sunday except for the closing panel discussion. Keynote talks: Jim Scrivener Lesson planning is a thinking skill Adrian Underhill The learning school: a way of transforming how we work Other talks include: Briony Beaven Teacher education. Born to it? Achieved? Or thrust upon them? Liam Brown The customer and the teacher: two voices a-calling! Mike Cattlin Teacher training developments in the IH World Organisation. Hugh Dellar The curse of creativity Gavin Dudeney & Nicky Hockly The DoS, the trainer, the teacher and technology Madeleine Du Vivier et al Activities for checking student learning Peter Grundy What's new in Pragmatics and why it might matter to language teachers Kirsten Holt Setting goals to help students maintain motivation Roger Hunt Counting the ticks: written feedback on teacher training courses Jennifer Jenkins English as a lingua franca: past empirical, present controversial, future uncertain Philip Kerr Professionalism and other mumbo jumbos Sam McCarter Maximising your students' success in IELTS reading Peter Moor English made simple: whose English should we teach? Martin Parrott What grammar should we teach? George Pickering Becoming an even better leader/manager Alan Pulverness Preparing for TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) Mario Rinvolucri Using NLP as a research tool in EFL Philida Schellekens How do learners reflect on their learning? Jim Scrivener Intuition Barry Tomalin Teaching culture - The 5 C's and how to apply them Adrian Underhill Learning schools: implications for your own workplace Andrew Walkley Making life easier for low level learners Times: Friday, 6 May from 18.30 to 21.30, Saturday, 7 May from 09.30 to 17.00, Sunday, 8 May from 10.00 to 13.00 Venue: International House London 106 Piccadilly London W1J 7NL Registration Fee: £79 for IH London PDC members £99 for non-members (Fee includes the drinks Friday evening, lunch on Saturday and coffee and tea throughout the conference) For further details including abstracts of talks and registration form go to: http://www.ihlondon.com/pdc/events/conferences
• The newly formed Qatar Teachers of English Network (or QTEN) is holding its second conference on April 30th. The conference theme is "Integrating Technology into the EFL/ELT Classroom." If you are interested in presenting at the conference, in attending, and/or if you need more information, please open the QTEN flyer in the attachment (which was sent with the announcement of this conference. Please note that the deadline for papers is March 7th and that your proposals should be emailed to gmatthews@qf.org.qa.
• METSMaC–I The First Annual Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing Conference “Strategies for Effective Learning in the Middle East” 26 to 28 April 2005 at the Armed Forces Officers' Club and The Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE http://www.pi.ac.ae/metsmac/index.htm
• 19th APPI Conference 20th, 21st and 22nd April 2005 Sana Metropolitan Hotel Lisbon http://www.appi.pt/Ingles/actividades/CongSemin.htm
• TCC Worldwide Online Conference April 19-21, 2005 Pre-Conference Dates: April 5-6, 2005 "BACKWARDS OR INTO THE FUTURE?" http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu TCC 2005 is especially interested in presentations that relate to the use of information technology in the following areas: - Online or "hybrid" learning - Multimedia resources and delivery - Distance learning - Mobile learning - E-Portfolios - New technologies for teaching and learning (blogs, wikis, PDAs, mp3, etc) - Student orientation and preparation - Building and sustaining learning communities - Using technology to maintain communication between faculty and students - Online personality types and learning styles - Assessing student outcomes in online learning - Achieving and measuring student success - Online student services (tutoring, advising, payments, etc) - Barriers to technological change and how to overcome them - Facilitating institutional change with technology - Implementing technology in a learning college - Professional development for faculty and staff - Cost control vs. educational benefits - Global learning or international education - Gender equity, the Digital Divide, and equal access for everyone - Educational technology use in countries of Asia & the Pacific, Europe, South America, and Africa. PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS, be sure to describe the content, goals, and expected outcomes of your presentation. For details on submitting your proposal, go to the conference home page and click on "Proposal Submission" link: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu Submissions should be in the form of a paper, discussion, poster session or pre-conference tutorial. For details about presentation formats, see: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/presentation/ The deadline for proposals is December 31, 2004. This event is hosted by University of Hawaii Kapi’olani Community College in association with Osaka Gakuin University, Japan and in partnership with LearningTimes.org.
• The Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi UAE will host the Tactile Tasks and Technical Tips Event for the Learner Independence and IT SIGs of TESOL Arabia April 14, 9:00 - 13:00 in Abu Dhabi, and will consist of its usual mix of practical, tactile, games/activities workshops and introductory tec workshops as well as advanced tec workshops based on neat ideas, tec tips and tricks, websites, making CALL activities, etc. If you would like to present, please contact Heather Baba at [mailto:hmbaba@yahoo.co.uk] as soon as possible, and tell let her know which type of workshop you are interested in presenting. (More info about the past TTTT events can be found at http://ilearn.20m.com/pasteventsb.html#tttt) (site times out Jan 10, 2007)
• For those of you who wanted to attend IATEFL 2005 Annual Conference - 5 - 9 April 2005 - Cardiff, but didn't have the opportunity, there are a range of reports from various sessions written by two roving reporters. http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/iatefl2005/iatefl2005.shtml . Michael Vallance's report on the recent IATEFL LT SIG event in Cardiff is here: http://homepage.mac.com/mvallance select DOWNLOAD FILES and then IATEFLreport.pdf
• 10th Annual” TechEd International Conference & Exposition April 4-6, 2005 Pasadena Conference Centerhttp://www.techedevents.org/2005/register/Scholarships_InfoPage.asp
• TESOL 2005: The 39th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibition will be in San Antonio, Texas, March 30-April 2 2005. The theme for the convention is "Teaching Learning, Learning Teaching: The Nexus in Texas." http://www.tesol.org/conv/index-conv.html You can submit a proposal to present a paper, a workshop, a demonstration, a colloquium, a video theater, a poster session, or a professional development workshop. We've all got quality methods, materials, research or experiences that we can share with our colleagues. The submission deadline for most of these activities was May 1 but for Poster and Video Theater Proposals are due August 1. All the information you need including submission guidelines can be found at: http://www.tesol.org/tesol2005/cfp.html. Robb Scott Editor, ESL MiniConference Online, posted a report: http://eslminiconf.net/april2005/sanantonio.html.
• TCC 2005 WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE "Looking Back Towards the Future?" FREE PREVIEW & PANEL DISCUSSION "How Can Faculty & Staff Keep Up with the Changing Times?" Join advisory panel members and keynoters in a free live webcast in celebration of the upcoming 10th Anniversary of the TCC Worldwide Online Conference. The webcast will include an informal interactive discussion with panel members, along with a preview of TCC 2005 conference activities. Panel members will provide suggestions and ideas based on lessons learned from the past and how faculty can keep up with changes in instructional technology. This live event is being offered at two different times to best accommodate multiple time zones. March 30, 3:00 pm EST (8:00 pm GMT) and again at March 30, 7:00 pm EST (12:00 am GMT, Mar 31) This free one-hour webcast is a prelude to the 10th Anniversary TCC Worldwide Online Conference, and is sponsored by LearningTimes. The event is free, but registration is required. To reserve a virtual seat for the March 30th events: http://www.learningtimes.net/tcc2005webcast.html
• 7th Annual DigitalStream Conference at California State University Monterey Bay (March 24-26, 2005) This conference is for educators who are interested in the use of technology in teaching foreign language and cultures at any level of instruction. This year we have approximately 70 presentations and workshops in addition to keynote addresses by Carl Falsgraf at the University of Oregon and Leo van Lier at the Monterey Institute for International Studies. This conference also serves as the Spring meeting for the SouthWest Association for Language Learning Technology (SWALLT) and is a great opportunity to network with friendly technology-knowledgable language educators from your area. Conference Theme: Theory and Practice: Foreign Language Pedagogy with Evolving Technology Technology is on the move--it's hard to keep up--but what are you doing in your classrooms and programs to keep apace with the current cycle of technology transformation? Over the past decade the power and availability technology has increased dramatically while costs have fallen steadily. Additionally, teachers and students are becoming increasingly tech-savvy. Teachers can do more with their technology and they can expect more from their students. But, have we evolved tech-savvy classroom pedagogy? The 2005 DigitalStream Conference seeks to address this issue. Keynote Speakers: Carl Falsgraf, Director, CASLS, University of Oregon; "Data-Driven Curriculum and Professional Development" Leo van Lier, Director of the Max Kade Language and Technology Center, Monterey Institute of International Studies; "Professional Development and CALL: The Dynamics of Online and Onsite Projects" Banquet Speaker: Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Director, Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC), Professor of French, San Diego State University "Are We There Yet?: Reflections on Technology-Assisted Language Learning - Past, Present, and Future" http://wlc.csumb.edu/digitalstream/
• The University of Technology of Compiegne (France)is organising its 6th conference on the Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching UNTELE 2005, 24-26 March 2005. The principal theme of the up-coming conference: "Input, Interaction, Feedback, Evaluation and Second Language Acquisition and Multimedia Environements" Key note speakers: -- Jean-Marc DEWAELE : Birkbeck College, University of London, G.B -- Nick ELLIS : University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA -- Michael H. LONG : University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA -- Florence MYLES : University of Newcastle, G.B http://www.utc.fr/~untele
• The IATEFL Teacher Trainers and Educators Special Interest Group conference - held jointly with the VHS in Vienna, 4-6 March 2005. Conference Title and theme: Quantum Leaps in Teacher Education? In recent years, debate in teacher education appears to have centred around a cluster of key issues such as autonomy, reflection, the use of IT, teacher development, teacher thinking and beliefs, the role of the native speaker, appropriate methodologies and teaching cultures. Have we experienced any quantum leaps in teacher education in this time? If so, what are they? And what is the future likely to hold? Is another paradigm shift around the corner, or should we expect a return to more conservative approaches to language teaching? The conference will take a critical look at current practice and possible future developments in teacher education. Plenary speakers: Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna (Austria) Kari Smith Oranim, Academic College of Education (Israel) Peter Medgyes, Deputy State Secretary in the Hungarian Ministry of Education (Hungary) Call for papers - submission deadline: 10 January 2005 Both the Call for Papers and the Registration Form are available in electronic format from the TTEd SIG website: http://www.ihes.com/ttsig/index2.asp
• INDEPENDENTLY ONLINE Venue: Thames Valley University, Reading Campus Date: February 26th, 2005 Do the same principles of learner autonomy in the classroom apply in the online learning situation? The Conference will aim to explore the principles and practices which need to be considered in an online learning environment where the aim is to support and foster greater learner autonomy. It will consider how different factors affect the design and functionality of materials for such an environment Keynote speakers: Barbara Sinclair Klaus Schwienhorst Gavin Dudeney & Nicky Hockly There will also be a session on exchange of ideas where each individual will have a 10-minute slot to present a practical activity, based on the principles of promoting autonomy in an online learning environment. For more information, visit our website at: http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk/future.htm, a joint event organised by the Computer SIG and the Learner Independence SIG.
• Net-Learning, Virtual Learning Environments invites you to the ONLINE Course: Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs How to learn them and how to teach them ! Course code: PREP Tutor: Aldo Blanco Duration: 6 weeks - Starting date: 24 February Fee: AR$ 160 - US$ 100 Further information: http://www.net-learning.com.ar/cursos/prep.htm Curso con puntaje Gobierno de la Cdad de Bs As - Resolución Nº 3131 Please consult our website for more information: http://www.net-learning.com.ar
• Knowplace http://knowplace.ca held its first annual online international conference: knowTIPS conference from February 23 - 27, 2005. Knowplace is known for its application of theory into practice and this conference is no exception. The conference theme is surviving and thriving online by putting Theory into Practice (TIPs). This conference emphasizes the practical aspects of working online with presentations and discussions about the technical, social, intellectual and organizational aspects of working online with others. Proposals that emphasize the use of open source and freeware are encouraged. The conference is being planned by knowmates from around the world and will draw participants from a wide range of countries. To register and to find out more about this fun and exciting opportunity, visit http://knowtips.ca/. Conference fees in Canadian $: Presenters: $50.00 (until February 01) $75.00 (after February 01) KnowTIPS Conference Participants (Until February 01) $100.00 (after February 01) $150.00 Knowplace/Capilano College graduates: (Until February 01) $ 75.00 (after February 01) $125.00 ** any financial problems, please contact Frances Long: flong@knowplace.ca We don't want to prohibit you from presenting or attending knowtips.** Any questions contact: flong@knowplace.ca -- Frances Long http://knowTIPS.ca http://knowplace.ca http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/continuinged/online
  The descriptions of presentations are available for prospective registrants to view, http://knowtips.ca/moodle_1.4.3/mod/resource/view.php?id=90
  The schedule is available at http://knowtips.ca/moodle_1.4.3/mod/resource/view.php?id=94
• LearningTimes is proud to sponsor and produce the 2005 Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learning. Registration is now open for the 3rd annual edition of this very exciting event, which will take place completely over the internet, February 16-18. The 2005 theme is "Innovation, Education, Technology and You". The 2005 conference site is: , http://www.ilonlineconf.org/. The entire event will take place in a LearningTimes Online Conference Community - affording many opportunities for collaboration, learning and networking with hundreds of K-20 education professionals. It only costs US$100 to participate, which includes unlimited access to the community, presentations, and materials for one year after the event. Additional registration information may be found here: http://www.ilonlineconf.org/content/reg_info.cfm
• Can't attend the Training Conference in New Orleans? Don't worry! We've designed a solution especially for you! The Training Conference & Expo is pleased to offer an online version of this year's show for those unable to attend in person and for those who want to build on their experiences at the conference. The program, held completely over the Internet, will take place in a dedicated "Conference Community," and feature a wide array of training, collaboration, and networking opportunities. The Training Live & Online agenda includes: *25+ live interactive webcasts *Live interactive panel discussions *Conference Keynotes and Special Events *Conference Updates - live each morning from New Orleans Check out the Training Live & Online Conference Schedule and register at http://www.trainingliveandonline.com/ All of the webcasts will be recorded and made available to participants after the event ends. Conference correspondents will create daily "Voice Blogs" to keep you posted on activities, themes, and "the pulse" of the live conference in New Orleans. Drop into the "Cyber Café" to collaborate with colleagues and take advantage of the instant messenger to communicate with new friends you may meet in the webcasts. - we are bringing over 25 of the speakers LIVE to your desktop! If you can't attend the conference, but would like to take part in the online version, the early bird price is $349 if you sign up before February 15, 2005, $399 after that. Each registration includes unlimited access to the online conference community for one year after the event. Jennifer Hofmann Conference Producer
• 2005.Australian Blogging.Conference - Feb, 2005 (no exact date given), Melbourne, Australia, http://www.bloggingconference.com/. Visit the site and get on the RSS feed for this one.
• Online Fielded Discussion "THE FUTURE OF CALL" 31st January - 5th February IATEFL COMP-SIG TESOL CALL-IS "Where has Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) been, where is it now and where is it going?" (Bax, 2002) The questions raised by Stephen Bax and other scholars are still very timely. Are we satisfied with the development that CALL has taken? How would we like CALL to develop in the future? Should specific areas be given priority in CALL-related research? Please join the IATEFL COMP-SIG and the TESOL CALL-IS in discussing thoughts, opinions, beliefs and hopes and aspirations for the future of CALL. This online discussion will take place on the electronic list of IATEFL COMP-SIG and will be fielded by Stephen Bax (Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK). The discussion will take place from 31st January to 5th February. Food for thought is available at: http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk/future.htm#thefutureofcall where Stephen Bax's article "CALL-past, present and future" and Mark Warschauer's and Deborah Healey's article "Computers and Language Learning: An overview "are available. Make sure you join the IATEFL COMP-SIG list so as to take part in the discussion. You can join by sending a blank email to IATEFLComputerSig-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Looking forward to "seeing" you there and "listening" to what you have to say! Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou IATEFL COMP-SIG Deputy Coordinator & Acting Discussion List Moderator
• Language learning has been a fast-developing area of e-course provision, and we regularly have many language teachers on our short course - the international course in Online Education and Training. This is a long-established London University course, starting online January 28 2005 for 10 non-intensive part-time weeks, or by blended learning April 25 for 5 weeks. Content is the same, and both carry 20 credits that can be taken into either an Advanced Diploma in Professional Studies or a Master's. All the tutors have many years of experience as online tutors and trainers. It always turns out to be a forum for rich structured collaborative learning with UK and world-wide educators from a wide range of subject interests. We use a range of multimedia materials and various platforms to consider different methods of teaching and syllabus design issues, closely tied to learner needs. The optional meeting on day 1 will offer web platform training and include a relevant talk. For full details, visit: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/english/oet.htm Enquiries to London office: cpd.inset@ioe.ac.uk using for reference the subject header: OET Places are limited and deadline for applications was 15 November 2004
• The10th EFL Skills Conference "Integrating EFL Skills: Learning, Teaching, and Standards" Wednesday 12th January - Friday 14th January, 2005 Center for Adult & Continuing Education The American University in Cairo DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSAL FORMS September 30th, 2004 - This year, the subject addressed is "Integrating EFL Skills: Learning, Teaching, and Standards." The theme includes but is not limited to: 1. Adult Education 9. Instructional Technology 2. Critical Thinking 10. Learner Independence 3. Curriculum Development 11. Materials Design 4. Distance Learning 12. Standards-Based Assessment 5. Diversity in the Classroom 13. Standards for Teacher Education 6. EFL Standards 14. Teacher Development 7. ELT Administration 15. Testing and Evaluation 8. Global Issues 16. Young Learners This tenth conference will feature a testing colloquium, a book exhibition, keynote speakers sponsored by the United States Public Affairs Section, and a ticketed Nile dinner cruise for conference participants. All are invited to present and to participate. Colleagues in ministries, schools, institutes, universities, adult education centers and publishers are all most welcome. The broader the range of professional interests and backgrounds, the more stimulating and challenging the conference will be. Proceedings of the previous conferences are available for purchase. Please complete the submissions form on line: http://www.aucegypt.edu/conferences/eflconf
• The CALL Interest Section of TESOL is pleased to announce the Electronic Village Online for 2005. Registration for these free 6-week Internet-based sessions begins January 3. You may explore this year's offerings at http://www.geocities.com/ehansonsmi/evo2005/announce.html Sessions run January 17 to February 27. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in EVO. Sponsoring TESOL groups include: Higher Education International Teaching Assistants English for Special Purposes Video & Digital Media Teacher Education Drama E-Group TESOLers for Social Responsibility Intensive English Programs Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Hungarian Society for Studies in English (HUSSE) is going to have its 7th biannual conference in Veszprém in January 2005. All professionals involved in teaching and research in Linguistics; Literary Studies; Civilisation and Culture of English Speaking Communities; Education - including studies of education in English speaking countries; (English) language (teaching) policy; Teaching English as a Foreign Language; Education of teachers of English; are welcome to attend this professional event, are the most welcome to send in their registration form and speakers proposal as soon as possible to Dr. Poór Zoltán Veszprémi Egyetem - Tanárképzõ Kar (University of Veszprém - Faculty of Teacher Training) Angol Nyelv és Irodalom Tanszék (Department of English and American Studies) Veszprém, Egyetem u. 10., 8200 (Hungary) Tel.: +36-88-422022 Mellék/Ext: 4729 Mob.: +36-30-9721509 E-mail: poorz@almos.vein.hu E-mail: poorz@freemail.hu

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• The "InSync Center" community presents six hours of live, online instruction, blended with self-directed exercises and assignments, to help you to become familiar with the learner experience, e-learning terminology, and the basics of synchronous design and facilitation. -Primer 1 - Introducing the Synchronous Classroom (December 6th, 3pm - 5pm Eastern Time) -Primer 2- Creating Collaborative Synchronous Exercises (December 7th, 3pm - 5pm Eastern Time) -Primer 3 - Effective Facilitation Techniques - Keeping Your Audience Engaged (December 8th, 3pm - 5pm Eastern Time) Cost: $299 Dates: December 6, 7, & 8 - 3pm - 5pm Eastern Time This program is offered by InSync Center in conjunction with LearningTimes. For more information and full course descriptions contact Jennifer at insynctraining.com To enroll, browse to: http://www.learningtimes.net/slc103.shtml
• EgypTesol 2004 Best Practice in TEFL FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION December 3 - 5, 2004 Cairo Sheraton Hotel and Towers Giza, Egypt For information on accommodation please contact Mariam Ghazala at mariamghazala at hotmail.com
• Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth. This workshop will deliver 200 ready-to-use, powerful answers to turnaround problems like violence, apathy, truancy, defiance, ADD, school failure, bad attitudes, poor motivation and more. If you work with special ed, ELL, non reading or aspergers children, this class is the solution you need. It is sponsored by Youth Change Workshops. This class is for teachers, youth workers, counselors, psychologists, court workers, social workers, justice workers foster parents and school administrators. There is no registration deadline but early registration is encouraged. Free Sample Interventions from the class are offered. Work Study offered, plus $47 college credit and free CEUs are available. The class is also available on video with college credit and CEUs. Contact info is shown in the signature at bottom of page. The locations are: Austin TX December 9-10, 2004 Phoenix AZ December 2-3, 2004 Contact: Y O U T H C H A N G E - The Problem-Kid Problem-Solver - 275 N. Third St., Woodburn OR 97071 http://www.youthchg.com
• ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the world's largest international e-learning conference, takes place from December 1 - 3. Deadline for receipt of all proposals is past. This years themes include: - Building and Implementing E-Learning Strategies in Companies and Public Sector Organisations - Building and Maintaining the Virtual Campus - Effective and Efficient E-Learning - Creating Interactive and Collaborative E-Learning Environments - Managing the E-Learning Process - Future Trends in E-Learning Technology including the Impact of Wireless Technologies - Large Scale Deployment of E-Learning - Improving the Quality of E-Learning through Evaluation including Online Assessment and Certification - E-Learning as a Tool for Social Change The conference agenda is divided into Pre-Conference Workshops, Plenary Sessions, Presentation Sessions, Debates, Special Focus Sessions, Practical Events including "Show and Tell' Sessions, Demonstrations and Mini-Plug Fests. The conference agenda is accompanied by an exhibition and a series of Vendor Presentation Sessions. If you have any further questions, please visit the conference's newly launched website http://www.online-educa.com
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages ACTFL 2004 in Chicago, 19-21 November 2004
• NET*Working 2004 – Inclusion and Inspiration 8-19 November An online conference focused on using technology to deliver education and training more flexibly to boost business performance. http://flexiblelearning.net.au/nw2004/
• The Belarusian Association of Teachers of English ( BelNATE) and Minsk State Linguistics University will be hosting the 6th International BelNATE-IATEFL Conference 'Teaching English as a World Language in the Information Age' on November 3 - 5, 2004. We expect approximately 250 EFL instructors and specialists from all over Belarus and abroad. The aim of the on-line workshop is to bring together EFL teachers and specialists in an online session to demonstrate a number of synch/asynch tools available on the web. This will take place at the PC Lab of Minsk State Linguistics University ( Building B, Room # 104 ) .
  BelNATE Conference http://www.ir.bsu.by/kel/Teachers/conference04.htm
  BelNATE Online Events Calendar http://www.ir.bsu.by/kel/Teachers/onlinevents.htm
  BelNATE Conference Blog http://bysergei.bravejournal.com/
  BelNATE Conference Guestmap http://pub33.bravenet.com/guestmap/view.php?usernum=2813894146
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• El CENT, Centro de Educación y Nuevas Tecnologías de la Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, organiza la MoodleMoot Spain 2004, primera reunión de usuarios de Moodle de España. MoodleMoot Spain 2004 tendrá lugar el viernes 29 de octubre de 2004 en la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Económicas de la Universitat Jaume I e incluirá conferencias de Martin Dougiamas (por videoconferencia) y Eloy Lafuente, presentación de experiencias, demostraciones, etc. ¿Qué es Moodle? Moodle es un EVE/A (Entorno Virtual de Enseñanza/Aprendizaje) gratuito y de código fuente abierto creado por Martin Dougiamas en Australia y desarrollado por una creciente comunidad de usuarios y programadores en todo el mundo. La diferencia esencial entre Moodle y otros entornos es su enfoque constructivista social y el hecho de que la comunidad que lo mantiene y desarrolla está formada por usuarios reales que utilizan todos los días el software que están creando. Por ello, Moodle responde a necesidades reales de usuarios reales. Inscripción El número de plazas es limitado por cuestiones de espacio. La inscripción se realizará por correo electrónico. Envía un mensaje a la dirección moodlemoot@cent.uji.es con los datos siguientes: 1. Nombre y apellidos 2. Centro de trabajo La inscripción costará 30 euros. Este importe se deberá ingresar en el número de cuenta 2077 0580 40 3105126592, indicando en el concepto el código 04G075. Con el dinero de la inscripción pagaremos los gastos y si hay remanente se transferirá a moodle.org con el fin de contribuir al desarrollo de Moodle. Comunicaciones Si quieres compartir tu experiencia con Moodle con el resto de usuarios, envía un resumen de 10 o 12 líneas y tus datos de contacto a moodlemoot@cent.uji.es e intentaremos buscarte un hueco en el programa. La temática de las comunicaciones puede ser tanto técnica (nuevos módulos, integración con otras aplicaciones, etc.) como didáctica (experiencias innovadoras con alumnos) o institucional (proyectos, planes de implantación, experiencias de formación de usuarios, etc.). Más información CENT: cent@uji.es, tel. 964 729057 http://cent.uji.es/moodlemoot (site times out Jan 10, 2007)
• The annual education technology conference, T+L2: Leading Learning to a Higher Level, takes place Oct. 27 to 29, 2004, in Denver, Colorado. At T+L2, Michael Hawley, director of special projects at MIT, will be joined by dozens of educators at this three-day technology event. Sir Ken Robinson, international expert on creativity in education, and Cile Chavez, former superintendent and education reformer, will give keynote addresses. Other noted speakers include Elliot Soloway, Ian Jukes, Cheryl Lemke, Marc Prensky, Bernajean Porter, Susan Patrick, Milton Chen, Timothy Waters, and members of the Thornburg Center. T+L2 is the ideal venue to send a school team to get a first-hand look at current technology solutions. To register, go to http://www.nsba.org/t+l
• October 15th - 17th 2004 in Odense, Denmark. Networking - Language Teachers - Methodologies - Computer Assisted Language Learning The conference is jointly organized by EuroCall, EfVET (www.efvet.org ), and "The Best Practice - Best Language Teaching Methods" project teams(www.languages.dk/methods). The conference focuses on language teaching methodologies with an emphasis on ICT and communicative skills. Conference background For several years language teachers interested in ICT have discussed the possibility of a Nordic conference. With the collaboration of the EU- project BP-BLTM (Best Practice - Best Language Teaching Methods) such a conference has now become a reality. The conference is open for language teachers coming from the whole world, but we also hope that many Nordic language teachers will take the opportunity to hear and exchange new ideas and teaching methodologies with colleagues from the other Nordic countries. The BP-BLTM project has described five language teaching methods and has developed materials to use with these methods complete with DVDs showing how to teach lesser taught languages. The teams will present their results and all conference delegates will receive the full package of the BPBLTM products including T-shirts, DVD library, and CD-ROMs. Call for papers: You are invited to suggest a paper or presentation at the conference. The presentation slots are 45 minutes with 30 minutes presentation / demonstration and 15 minutes Q&A.;To suggest a paper please e-mail ka@ots.dk Price: The conference is priced at Euro 225. The price includes two nights stay in single rooms with all meals included, see program below: The content of the conference will include demonstrations of language teaching methods at concurrent workshops. The participants will experience the strengths of different teaching methodologies by personally experiencing these while learning Basque, Danish, Dutch, Gaelic, and Romanian Invited renowned speakers from EuroCall will demonstrate current ICT technologies for language teaching. The first and last days will have expert panels conducting discussions on new possibilities in language learning. These days are also dedicated to networking creating sustainable networks that will work for promotion of communicative language teaching methods. EuroCall members will work to establish local EuroCall committees and recruit new members for these. For full programme including social programme see www.languages.dk under Conferences and Committees.
• Online Social Nets Conference, October 13-27, 2004 OSN2004 will be a summit meeting where you will have a chance to hear from and interact with many of the pioneers in the field of online social networks as well as some of the current trendsetters now exploring the latest technologies and applications. http://www.socialnets.org/
• Distance Learning and the Internet 2004 11th to 13th October 2004 Tsinghua University Beijing, CHINA This major conference will explore global concerns to distance learning, with special issues among Pacific Rim universities. The theme of the conference is ¡°Distance Learning ¨C Benefiting All¡±. The conference will be co-sponsored by Tsinghua University and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). The conference will bring together leading distance learning experts from academia, business and government from Pacific Rim area. http://dli2004.sce.tsinghua.edu.cn/
• Portland OR October 7-8, 2004: Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth. This workshop will deliver 200 ready-to-use, powerful answers to turnaround problems like violence, apathy, truancy, defiance, ADD, school failure, bad attitudes, poor motivation and more. If you work with special ed, ELL, non reading or aspergers children, this class is the solution you need. It is sponsored by Youth Change Workshops. This class is for teachers, youth workers, counselors, psychologists, court workers, social workers, justice workers foster parents and school administrators. There is no registration deadline but early registration is encouraged. Free Sample Interventions from the class are offered. Work Study offered, plus $47 college credit and free CEUs are available. The class is also available on video with college credit and CEUs. Contact info is shown in the signature at bottom of page. Other locations are: Austin TX December 9-10, 2004 Houston TX November 18-19, 2004 Phoenix AZ December 2-3, 2004 Contact: Y O U T H C H A N G E - The Problem-Kid Problem-Solver - 275 N. Third St., Woodburn OR 97071 http://www.youthchg.com
• Gitex 2004 Conference took place from 2nd – 7th October 2004 at the Dubai World Trade Center, Dubai, UAE
• International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research - September 25-26, 2004 The basic aim of this conference is to provide a venue for educators, established scholars and graduate students to present work on a wide variety of pedagogical, theoretical and empirical issues as related to the multi-disciplinary field of second and foreign language teaching and research. On these two days we will gather to share information and capitalize on each others' learnings, experiences and contributions. This conference will also give you an opportunity to make global connections with people in your field. The two days of sessions will be supplemented by keynote presentations delivered by distinguished professionals. For more information visit http://www.readingmatrix.com/onlineconference/index.html
• 3rd annual Peace as a Global Language Conference September 24th, 25th and 26th 2004 at the Kyoto Museum for World Peace Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan Detailed conference information at: http://www.eltcalendar.com/pgl2004
• Internacional Congreso "Towards Greater Professionalization in Language Teaching" in Puebla, 23-26 September 2004, details on-line at http://www.anupi.org.mx
• CONFERENCE : ICT in Education and Professional Development of Teachers Leiden, Netherlands, 17 and 18 September 2004 Main goal of the conference is discussing issues and sharing experience related to recent developments in the use of ICT in Teacher Education. Outcomes of European initiatives and projects will be presented. Discussions will be underpinned by input from a number of International experts in the field. The number of participants will be limited to 100!! KEYNOTE SPEAKERS David Warlick of the Landmark Project has addressed conferences and delivered workshops in nearly every state of the USA and in Europe, Asia and South America. David is an innovator and leader in the field of educational technology. Redefining literacy in light of the changing nature of information Mark Brown, Massey University, College of Education, Auckland, New Zealand. Telling a different story: Lessons from ICT Teacher Education in New Zealand Hans Pelgrum Senior Researcher Center for Applied Educational Research University of Twente, The Netherlands E-Learning, ICT and teacher education: an international perspective on policies and lessons learned Irma van der Neut Irma van der Neut is senior researcher at IVA and project manager of the annual research activities on ICT in Dutch (Teacher) Education Innovation in Dutch Teacher Education: Monitoring ambitions and developments. Wilfried Admiraal Wilfried Admiraal is a researcher, teacher and administrator at the Institute of Education of Utrecht University. His activities include the project management of various European projects in the area of ICT and (Higher) Education, research in similar projects and administration of the Research Department of the Center for ICT in Education. ICT-E competence standards and professional development: a European perspective Arjan Dieleman Programme manager at the Ruud de Moor Centre for Professional Development of Teachers, Dutch Open University Development of Teacher Education and the role of ICT REPORTS AND WORKSHOPS ON MINERVA PROJECTS Odette Open and Distance Education for Teacher Training in Europe ODETTE's main aim is the development, application and evaluation of a methodology to promote flexible teacher training at a distance, focusing on supervising school practice of teacher trainees. Pronett Professionals Networking Education and Teacher Training Develop a regional and cross national learning community of pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators supported by webbased resources and tools to collaborate and to construct shared understandings of teaching and learning in a networked classroom. Elise E-Learning (in) In-Service (teacher training) in Europe Development of e-learning modules for professionally active teachers - and for their trainers (in in-service contexts). PePCAA A Pedagogical Psychology Computer Assisted Assessment System to support Initial and Life long Teacher Training PePCAA is developing a tool which allows teacher and student teachers to self-assess their knowledge in Pedagogical Psychology, to identify knowledge gaps and to get hints how to fill it. For further information and registration: http://www.minerva-dissemination.nl/
• IATEFL Special Interest Groups 2004 Symposium VOLKSHOCHSCHULE DER STADT BIELEFELD, BIELEFELD, GERMANY "Special Interests * International Perspectives" 10th * 12th September 2004
• September 8-11, 2004 The University of the Basque Country will be hosting the 14th international conference of the European Second Language Association in San Sebastian at the Miramar Palace. E-mail eurosla2004@vc.ehu.es. Web site http://www.vc.ehu.es/eurosla2004. Proposal Deadline: Jan-31-2004.
• SANTEC is an volunteer organization whose purpose is to encourage development of technology in Africa. A weekly digest of interesting news (often going far beyond the African context) has been recently enhanced by 3-day online "seminars" focused on a particular tech-related topic. The next online seminar will be on 8, 9 and 10th of Sept 2004 about the use of Telecenters. There may be some chat sessions during the conference. To get access click on < Santec Chatroom> on the Homepage of the Santec website: http://www.santecnetwork.org You will need to register/sign in as a member of SANTEC, but it is free, no obligation.
• Eleventh International C.A.L.L. Conference "CALL & Research Methodologies" Antwerp, Conference Center "Elzenveld" September 5 - 7, 2004. www.didascalia.be In general, the CALL Conferences focus on research topics and issues in CALL Theory, Practice and Engineering. For the 2004 CALL Conference, and as a direct result of growing interest in the field, the focus will be on research methodologies. It will address the following questions: - Which research methodologies can be adopted in CALL ? - What are the challenges due to the multidisciplinarity of CALL ? - To what extent does the choice of methodology depend on CALL-activities such as Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation? - What are the views of researchers on dedicated CALL research methodologies?
• Innovative Technologies and Their Didactic Application Fourth Pre-Conference Workshop organised by the Special Interest Group in Language Processing in Eurocall Vienna, Wednesday 1 September 2004 For this fourth pre-conference workshop, we have chosen one of the sub-themes of the main Eurocall conference: Innovative Technologies and Their Didactic Application. The one-day workshop is open to specialists in the field of Natural Language Processing and CALL as well as to colleagues and students with an interest in these areas, but no prior knowledge. Please check http://siglp.eurocall-languages.org
• August 30-September 1. The Slovak Association National Conference, "Is Creativity the Key to Success in an EFL Classroom," Matej Bell University, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic. Contact: Eve Homolova, PhD, Dept. of English and American Studies, Matej Bell University, Tajovskeho 40, 974 01 Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic. TEL. 048 4465019 E-mail homolova@fhv.umb.sk.
• eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for eLearning International Workshop to be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 Geneva, August 28th, 2004 This workshop focuses on the relation between Computational Linguistics and eLearning within two sessions. 1. eLearning for Computational Linguistics With the SOCRATES thematic network project "Advanced computing in the Humanities" the need for information technologies, and, in particular, eLearning in the humanities, including CL, has been identified. The survey which has been launched revealed the interest in high-quality teaching material and (distance) courses. On the occasion of a conference and a workshop, both held 1998 and 1999 resp., first results were presented in the form of project notes. Furthermore, didactic issues which concern (distance) teaching and learning of computational linguistics and language technology were raised. In the meanwhile, various projects have provided high-quality teaching material and (distance) courses for various disciplines of Computational Linguistics, like ELSNET and MiLCA. This part of the workshop should give practioners in the field the opportunity * to share didactic experience of eTeaching CL, * to identify and to disseminate good practice models and resources, * to share novel approaches to eLearning in CL, and * to discuss curricular issues. 2. Computational Linguistics for eLearning In the context of computer-mediated distance learning, language technology can help to enhance the accessibility of online teaching material and the adaptivity of learning management systems. * In the context of computer mediated communication, language technology can be applied for, e.g, summarization of discussion threads and support of discourse coherence in synchronous CMC * In the context of accessibility and usability of online teaching material, language technology can be applied for, e.g., - matching of semantic representations of learning modules on the one hand and the prospective user's knowledge of the topic on the other hand; - facilitation of access to learning material by more flexible and sophisticated search methods; - improvement of retrieval by supplying metadata for learning objects on a (semi)-automatic basis; - adaptive components which adjust the system to particular users, e.g adaptation of learning management systems for disabled persons, taking into account their special needs. With this part of the workshop, we want to further address the role which language technology plays in the development of intelligent platforms for eLearning. We want to particularly encourage submissions by scholars and software developers who present implemented and working eLearning systems in which language technology supplies a crucial part of the implemented solution. The entire workshop constitutes an informal forum for researchers and teachers to discuss the various issues, to create networks of common interests and to launch new initiatives in the area of eLearning, check http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html or the COLING homepage for details.
• International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-based Society to be held on 4-5 August 2004, Shangri La Hotel, Bangkok Thailand. The objectives of this conference are: - To share knowledge and advance in eLearning; - To build networks of professionals, researchers, educators and policy-makers practicing eLearning; - To expand the opportunity for knowledge interchange; - To facilitate knowledge-sharing for ongoing initiatives; - To build repositories of current practices and lessons learned; - To provide sustainability through launching a permanent regional eLearning portal. The themes of the conference are: - Cultivating eLearning professionals, - Content development, - Usability and efficiency of eLearning, and - Delivering eLearning through technology. The deadline for submitting abstract is 30 June 2004. Authors will be notified about decisions regarding their abstract submission by July 7, 2004. The final copy of full paper (not more than 3,000 words) is due to be submitted by 15 July 2004 For more information, please see http://www.eLearningAP.com
• July 31, 2004 Indiana Center for Intercultural Communicationâ?Ts Conference â?oICIC Conference on Contrastive Rhetoric,â? Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Contact Dr. Ulla Connor, Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication Program Director, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 620 Union Drive, Union Building, Room 407, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA. E-mail uconnor@iupui.edu. Web site http://www.iupui.edu/~icic/ . Proposal Deadline: Apr-15-2004.
• the VIP Scientific Forum of the International IPSI-2004 PESCARA Conference in Italy (IPSI = Internet, Processing, Systems for e-education/e-business, and Interdisciplinaries), to be held in the hotel Castello Chiola from July 28 till August 2, 2004. Detailed program and all relevant information are given at the web: www.internetconferences.net. Castello Chiola is a century IX castle on the top of a hill, with a sea view; best Italian beaches around Pescara are only about 10km away. This is our former L'Aquila conference relocated to a place which is much more attractive and convenient. Opening keynote: Professor Michael Flynn, from Stanford University. Our next meeting is in Sweden (Stockholm Grand Hotel) and your are invited (for details see www.internetconferences.net
• National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) 2004 Summer Institute symposium Symposium: Distance Education, Distributed Learning & Language Instruction: Reports from the Field at University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI July 27-30, 2004 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/DE2004/
• Tthe Inter-American Organization of Higher Education IOHE http://www.oui-iohe.qc.ca , which includes about 400 universities, and EISTA's Organizing Committee, invites you to participate in the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications EISTA 2004, which will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, in July 21 - 25, 2004. The main objective of EISTA '04 is to provide a forum for the presentation of both: solutions and problems of the applications of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education and Training. Therefore, we invite you to submit your original and unpublished works, research results, case studies, information systems developed for specific purposes, and innovative ideas and designs in the fields of Education/Training and Information/Communication Technologies (ICT) that might be improved by different approaches and design in ICT. We are making emphasis on the area of Educational Systems and Technologies, mainly Technological Support in Computer education which is related to your specific area. I would also like you to consider the possibility of organizing an invited session related to the topic of your research interest in this field. The best 10% of the papers will be published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp), the hard copy version of which will be ready in about one month, and it will be sent to the largest university libraries.
• July 19-21. 7th International Conference of the Association of Language Awareness. University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. E-mail ala2004@dal.udl.es. Web site http://www.udl.es/dept/dal/ala2004.
• Responding to the needs of the Chinese Learner in Higher Education Conference , University of Portsmouth, UK 17th & 18th July 2004 Call for papers Many universities in the UK, as in other European countries, are experiencing an increase in the number of Chinese learners. A growing awareness of intercultural issues has generated interest in the needs of Chinese learners in a British academic environment. This conference will focus on research into the needs of the Chinese learner along with examples of good practice, and concerns about the best ways to provide appropriate educational experiences. We invite abstracts of up to 300 words for individual or joint papers from those researching in the field or with pedagogically-based experience which may contribute to our understanding of the needs of the Chinese learner. Contributions may be in the form of : Parallel sessions for papers of 30 minutes Workshops Poster presentations - More information about the conference themes and speakers and online submission forms are available at: http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/slas/chineselearnersconference/
• July 12-17. The fourth biennial conference "Exploring Cultural Perspectives," The University of Florence, Florence, Italy. E-mail icrn@telusplanet.net. Web site http://www.telusplanet.net/public/icrn/icrn.html.
• MLEARN 2004 - Learning Anytime Everywhere Annual conference, ROME, 5-6 JULY 2004 "MOBIlearn and mLearning, the two mobile learning projects supported by the European Commission ... The conference will bring together people who are interested in developing opportunities, systems and contents for learning with mobile and wireless devices and networks." http://www.mobilearn.org/mlearn2004/
• CAITA-2004 conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA July 8-11, 2004. All relevant information and the detailed invitation letter can be found on the web (http://www.internetconferences.net). This is a broadband conference, aimed at bringing together the scientific/technical elite. Keynote: Dr. Dag von Lubitz, Laureate of the Smithsonian Award.
• The third (biennial) PAN-COMMONWEALTH FORUM ON OPEN LEARNING (PCF) will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 4 - 8 July 2004, hosted by the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ). The conference theme is "Building Learning Communities for our Millennium: Reaching Wider Audiences through Innovative Approaches." Sub-themes include Education, Health and Local Government. COL's EXCELLENCE IN DISTANCE EDUCATION AWARDS (EDEA) will also be presented at the Forum. PCF and EDEA web sites are under construction. Further details will follow within three weeks. Submission deadlines to note: PCF call for papers: abstracts may be submitted up to 29 August 2003 EDEA: Entry deadline for submissions and nominations is 30 November 2003 PCF presentation papers: upon acceptance of abstracts, papers are required by 22 December 2003
• SAALT 2004 "Reflecting on the Past and Projecting in the future in Language Learning and Teaching" University of Transkei, SOUTH AFRICA, 30 June - 2 July 2004 Sub-themes: CALL, Language and identity, Language policy and planning, Applied Linguistics, Textual studies, Assessment, and Language Research Please send all abstracts and direct enquiries to the organizer: Ms. Nombulelo Monoana : saalt04@yahoo.co.uk, fax: 047-5022625 or 5022554
• June 27-July 1. Biennial CATac Conference, "Off the Shelf or From the Ground Up, ICTs and Cultural Marginalization, Homogenization or Hybridization." Web site http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/.
• International Conference On Video And Videoconferencing In Education INHOLLAND University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28 -30 June 2004 http://www.inholland.com/index.html?folder=128 http://www.edusite.nl/webstroom/english See also: http://www.derby.ac.uk/diverse/
• June 26-30, 2004 Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication's, "ICIC Summer Institute on Contrastive Rehtoric," Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Contact: Dr. Ulla Connor, Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication Program Director, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 620 Union Drive, Union Building, Room 407, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA. E-mail uconnor@iupui.edu. Web site http://www.iupui.edu/~icic/ . Proposal Deadline: May-1-2004.
• ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND EDUCATION RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE ON LEARNING Cojamar Pedagogical Convention Centre Havana, Cuba, 27-30 June 2004 - Critical issues to be addressed include education for local and global cultural diversity, the impact of new technologies, changing forms of literacy, and the role of education in social and personal transformation. The conference welcomes presentation proposals addressing a broad range of themes across the humanities and social sciences. http://www.LearningConference.com
• June 25-27. Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL). 2004 Academy, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: TESOL, 700 South Washington Street, Suite 200, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Fax 703-836-7864. E-mail edprograms@tesol.org. Web site http://www.tesol.org/.
• The conference programme for the 2nd IVACS International conference on "Analyzing Discourse in Context" to be held at Queen's University Belfast, 25th - 26th June, 2004 is now available on www.mic.ul.ie/ivacs
• June 24-27. Far Eastern English Language Teachers' Association (FEELTA). The Fifth Pan-Asian Conference on Language Teaching at FEELTA 2004 , "Sharing Challenges, Sharing Solutions: Teaching Languages in Diverse Contexts," Vladivostok, Russia. Web site http://www.dvgu.ru/rus/partner/education/feelta/pac5/.
• 2004 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition to be held June 20-23 in Salt Lake City, UT. The calls for papers for this year's annual conference are located on-line at www.asee.org/conferences/annual2004.
• KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Faculty of Humanities has a great pleasure in inviting you to participate in THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LANGUAGES, TECHNOLOGIES AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY 18-20 June, 2004, Kaunas, LITHUANIA http://www.ktu.lt/en/ The objective of the conference is to provide an international forum for academics, educators, researchers, teachers and postgraduate students from around the world to exchange practices as well as to stimulate the implementation of innovative approaches and to integrate DT (digital technologies) into the studies of modern languages and culture. The conference is expected to result in a broadening of the knowledge base of international DT development, to foster the formation of professional networks among participants and to promote best practices in implementing DT in language and culture integrated studies.
• The joint IATEFL TTEd SIG (Teacher Trainers and Educators Special Interest Group) / VHS Köln conference is to be held in Cologne, Germany from 18-20 June. The theme of the conference is 'Cultures and Contexts', and we will be exploring the topic of culture(s) in Teacher Education. The plenary speakers are Adrian Holliday (Friday), Prof. Hans Eberhard Piepho (Saturday), and Robert Gibson (Sunday) - the full programme, speaker abstracts and further information can be found on the TTEd website at http://www.ihes.com/ttsig/index2.asp
• NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems INVITED SPEAKERS Bjorn Granstrom - CTT - KTH Stockholm Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield Wolfgang Menzel - University of Hamburg Piero Cosi - CNR Padua (Italy) Masatake Dansuji - Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies - Kyoto University IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop dates: June 17-19, 2004 Sub-themes: In the selection process, preference will be given to submissions for Papers, Show & Tell Demonstrations and Posters (please specify) related to at least one of the following areas: 1. Language Processing for CALL 2. Speech Processing for CALL PROGRAMME The Scientific Programme will include invited speakers, oral presentations, poster presentations, referenced demonstrations and panels. See the InSTIL site at http://project.cgm.unive.it
• INTERNET PLANET SPRING 2004 CONFERENCE & EXPO Growing Business Online June 15-16, 2004 Hilton New York * New York, NY www.internetplanet.com is the meeting place where CEOs, COOs, CMOs and their teams of marketers, developers, designers and Web executives come together to exchange idea, discuss strategies and evaluate solutions from the thousands of organizations that provide services related to all aspects of Web site operations in order to grow their business online.
• InSTIL/ICALL Symposium 2004 NLP and Speech Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems 17-19 June 2004 Venice, Italy Auditorium Santa Margherita, Universite Ca' Foscari - Venezia IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop Paper - Workshop dates: June 17-19, 2004 - The scope of this workshop is to join together people working in the two neighbouring and often overlapping fields of Natural Language and Speech Technologies research oriented towards Language Learning and Tutoring. Symposium website: http://project.cgm.unive.it.
• 'Autonomy and Language Learning: Maintaining Control' conference Hong Kong and Hangzhou (China) from 14-18 June 2004. Themes include: * the rhetoric and practice of learner autonomy in the modern world * learner autonomy and teacher autonomy * developing learner autonomy in the classroom (from primary to tertiary levels) * self-directed and self-access language learning Abstract deadline: Full details and Abstract Form: http://lc.ust.hk/~centre/conf2004/
• June 12-23. Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication's, "ICIC Summer Institute on Contrastive Rhetoric," Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Contact: Dr. Ulla Connor, Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication Program Director, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 620 Union Drive, Union Building, Room 407, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA E-mail uconnor@iupui.edu. Web site http://www.iupui.edu/~icic/.
• June 10-16, 2004. Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2004. "Reflective Teaching," Dominican Republic, West Indies, Instituto Cultural Dominico Americano, Abraham Lincoln Ave. #21. Santo Domingo, D.R. Contact: Grisel Del Rosario, Tel. (809) 535-0665 ext. 265-264. Email: idiomas@icda.edu. do Santiago Location: Avenida Estrella Sadhala, Santiago, June 15-16, 2004. Contact: Agustin Francisco, Tel. (809) 582-6627. Email: agustin_efco@hotmail.com http://www.icda.edu.do/ Proposal Deadline: Apr-30-2004.
• CALICO '04, Focusing on the Learner, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 8-12 June 2004. Each year CALICO's conference features preconference workshops, individual presentations, a courseware showcase, exhibits, luncheon, banquet, and a great venue. You can get a preview of the workshops, sessions, and courseware to be presented at the conference and also submit your registration online from CALICO's conference website: http://calico.org/conference/index.html
• June 3-4. North Carolina State University,ESL Symposium for K-12 teachers and other educators interested in ESL, Raleigh, North Carolina, Tel. 919-515-9301 Fax 919-513-7036 E-mail mcboatwr@social.chass.ncsu.edu. Web site http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/esl/2004_symposium_index.html
• The 3rd International Conference on eLiteracy 2nd - 4th June 2004 at St John's University, New York, USA "'eLit' has a unique focus: eLiteracy, the whole range of skills and intellectual abilities needed to use the new technologies underpinning learning and life in the modern world... Help us define what eLiteracy represents and encompasses - including computer literacy, information literacy, media literacy, thinking skills and learning skills." For further details, go to http://www.elit-conf.org/elit2004/index.html
• May 26-28. University Jaume I, Castello, Spain. First International Conference: ITC and Autonomy Applied to Language Learning. Organized by the GIAPEL from the English and Romance Philology Department and Translation and Communication Department, University Jaume I, Castello de la Plana. Contact Ignaci Navarro, navarroi@fil.uji.es or Mari Carmen Campoy, campoy@fil.uji.es, Department de Filologia Anglesa i Romanica, Universitat Jaume I. Web site http://www.taaal.uji.es . Proposal Deadline: Jan-12-2004.
• May 21-22. University of Helsinki, German Department and Multilingual Communication Program (MonAKO), Colloquium on "Contrasting Text Types in the Press." Contact: Prof. Andrew Chesterman, PhD. MonAKO -Unioninkatu 40, PB 24, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Tel. 358-9-1912-3122 Fax 358-9-1912-4068 E-mail andrew.chesterman@helsinki.fi. Web site http://www.helsinki.fi/~sala_kol/.
• May 14-18. May 14-15 (Nanjing, China), May 17-18 (Hong Kong, China). International Conference on Tertiary/College English Teaching: From Theory to Classroom Practice, English Language Teaching Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Tel. 852-26097466 E-mail eltu-conference@cuhk.edu.hk. http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eltu/conference/2004/
• ONLINE EDUCA MADRID, International Conference for Technology Supported Learning and Training, will take place from May 12 - 14. Regularly updated information and the complete conference programme can be found at www.online-educa-madrid.com.
• First Central European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference University of Veszprém, Veszprém, Hungary 6 and 8 May, 2004 http://vision.vein.hu/CEIMVRC04 The Veszprém Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (VEAB), together with the University of Veszprém will organize the First Central European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference between 10 and 12 May 2004 at the Central building of VEAB in Veszprém, Hungary. The CEIMVRC04 seeks original, high quality research and applied papers in all areas of multimedia, virtual reality, as well as augmented reality,mixed reality and 3D HCI. Research papers should describe results that contribute to advancements in state-of-the-art software, hardware, interaction, or systems development. Applied papers should address prototype or fielded systems and include a concise description of the application area, insight into the relevant system implementation issues, and discuss the effectiveness of the system with respect to the application area.
• 2004 Annual Conference for the American Association for Applied Linguistics May 1-4, 2004 Marriott Hotel, Downtown on the Waterfront 1401 SW Naito Parkway Portland, Oregon, 97201 USA Phone: (503) 226-7600 Plenary Speakers: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University. Tense-Mood-Aspect and the Study of Second Language Acquisition; Deborah Cameron, Institute of Education, University of London. Language, Gender and Sexuality: Current Issues and Future Directions; Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology, Sydney. Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows; Ron Scollon, Georgetown University. Activity, Action, Activism, and Linguistics; Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia. Composing Multimedia Texts in the Disciplines. For additional conference information, visit the conference website, http://www.aaal.org/aaal2004/.
• April 24-25. National Chung Cheng University. International Conference on English Language Teaching Instruction and Assessment, Min-Hsiung, Chiayi, Taiwan. Contact Ada Tang, admada@ccu.edu.tw, Tel. 886-5-2721108 Fax 886-5-2720495 E-mail admada@ccu.edu.tw. Web site http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~fllcccu/.
• April 22-25. Annual State CATESOL Conference. Santa Clara, California, USA. Conference Chair: Kara Rosenberg. E-mail kararosenberg@earthlink.net. Web site http://www.catesol.org/.
• The Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) is hosting the 22nd International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) "INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES" 22nd to 24th April 2004 For further information please visit the conference trilingual (!) website at http://www.upv.es/aesla2004/
• NINTH ANNUAL TCC 2004 ONLINE CONFERENCE April 20-22, 2004 (1000 GMT) Pre-conference Dates: April 13-15, 2004 "SURFING THE BROADBAND WAVE: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME" http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/ Join us at the ninth annual TCC 2004 Online Conference to share your take on "Surfing the Broadband Wave: The Shape of Things to Come." This year's conference will focus on broadband's impact on learning and instruction, instructional support, global or International Education and online and hybrid learning. Conference presentations will highlight new technologies, collaborative learning, innovative practices and visions for the future. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS James Shimabukuro, Professor of English, University of Hawai'i Kapi'olani Community College and TCC Conference Founder. "The Force Is with US: Freedom in the New Classroom" Matt Neuburg, Classicist, Professor, Educator, Author, and Programmer. Contributing editor for tidBITS. Author of books and articles on Frontier, RealBASIC, Mac OS X, & AppleScript. "Teachers, Take Back the Network! Education, Programming, Bandwidth, and You." Marc Prensky, Founder & CEO, Games2train, thought leader, speaker, writer, consultant, game designer and author, "Digital Game-Based Learning." "Game Design: A New Language for Education" Burt Lum, Founder & President, Mindwind Labs, technologist and writer for Honolulu Advertiser's weekly column, "Bytemarks." "Broadband's Impact on Building Digital Communities" FEATURED PRESENTATION Alan Levine, Instructional Technologist, Maricopa County Community College District. "PhotoBlogging: Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images." The conference also featured: TCC in partnership with LearningTimes is pleased to announce a special online panel discussion. Senator HILLARY CLINTON (NY) will make her first ever interactive webcast appearance as a keynote speaker on Wednesday, April 21st at 300 PM EDT. Senator Clinton's remarks will be part of a panel discussion on the "Non-Traditional Student". In February, Senator Clinton and Senator Bob Graham (FL) announced legislation to assist older students, full-time workers and other so-called "non-traditional" students who are pursuing a college degree. http://clinton.senate.gov/~clinton/news/2004/2004211531.html (site times out Jan 10, 2007)
• Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages New York, New York, 15-18 April 2004.
• For those who couldn't make it to IATEFL Annual Conference - 13 - 17 April 2004 - Liverpool, please feel free to have a look at our collection of report from our roving reporters at: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/iatefl2004/iatefl2004.shtml The sessions they are reporting on are: 1: Opening plenary - Bill VanPatten: The fundamental similarity hypothesis 2: John Pill: Promoting ICT to EFL teachers 3: Jeremy Cross: Strategy training to facilitate comprehension of televised news broadcasts 4: Anne O'Keeffe, Jane Evison, Almut Koester, Michael McCarthy: How to be vague and that kind of thing 5: Dr. Shosh Leshem & Professor Vernon Trafford: Partnership models for first-year EFL student-teachers and a school 6: Steve Walsh: Enhancing interactional competence through reflective practice 7: Plenary - Jennifer Jenkins: Elf at the gate: the position of English as Lingua Franca 8: Plenary follow up - Elf at the gate: the position of English as Lingua Franca 9: Jayne Moon: The EYL teacher's role in helping children to learn how to learn 10: Plenary - Rama Matthew: How do teachers learn and grow. 11: Mandana Arfa Kaboodvand: Homework, is it effective enough? 12: Ildiko Kalmarne Marias: Visualising and imagining of literary works of arts 13: Plenary - Adrian Holiday: Non-natives and natives 14: Final Plenary - Jeremy Harmer: And in the end (the love you take...) Hope you find these interesting. there are also their personal logs which give some information about their impressions of the event and their experiences of visiting the UK.
• The 2004 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) 38th Annual Convention will be in Long Beach, CA: March 29-April 3 with a theme of “Soaring Far, and Catching Dreams”. E-mail conventions@tesol.org. Web site http://www.tesol.org/conv/index-conv.html
• March 26-28. TESOL-SPAIN, 27th Annual Seminar - Process, Progress and Portfolios: Frameworks for Learning, Madrid, Spain. Coordinator Sarah Jane Hill. E-mail capitolhill@infonegocio.org. Web site http://www.tesol-spain.org/
• IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE), March 23-25, 2004 National Central University, JungLi, Taiwan http://lttf.ieee.org/wmte2003/ The proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Assoc. Prof. Kinshuk kinshuk at inspire.net.nz Chair, IEEE Learning Technology Task Force http://lttf.ieee.org/ Information Systems Dept., Massey University, New Zealand
• The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) will hold its annual conference March 19-21 at Princeton University highlighting the new Language Resource Center. Inspired by a recent thread on the LLTI on lab curriculum ideas, we have chosen as this year's theme "Technology and the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Constantly Developing Relationship." We welcome proposals for panels and presentations on all topics, but particularly encourage presentations of specific activities, ideas, and approaches to the use of technology in the FL curriculum. We would like to explore different ways in which technology and the curriculum influence one another as both technology and the L2 curriculum continue to evolve. We encourage participation from lab directors and faculty in order to ensure a variety of perspectives. Please consider sharing an activity that has worked well in your lab or an idea that you are developing. The new URLs for NEALLT are: http://www.neallt.net and http://www.neallt.org The old domain names will still work until December 2004: http://www.neall.net and http://www.neall.org
• March 19-20. Az-TESOL State Conference 2004, "ESL: Now More Than Ever!" at Northern Arizona University in Yuma/Arizona Western College campus, Yuma, Arizona. Contact: Nancy Blitz, Conference Chair, Arizona Western College, P.O. Box 929, Yuma, Arizona 85366 USA. TEL. 928-344-7677. FAX 928-317-6419 E-mail aztesol2004@aol.com. Web site http://www.az-tesol.org/
• NEALLT conference at Princeton (March 19-21) web site: http://www.neallt.org or http://www.neallt.net This year's theme is "Technology and the Foreign Language Curriculum: A Constantly Developing Relationship."
• Annual conference and AGM in Athens, Greece on 19-21 March 2004 under the aegis of the Greek Ministry for Education and Religious Affairs. The main emphasis will be on language testing and the CEF, website at http://icc-europe.com
• 17-20 March 2004 The fifth Compiègne conference on the Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching has as its main theme: Teacher and Learner Autonomy vis-a-vis Information Communication Technology. Does autonomy help language learning and acquisition? Does technology help autonomisation? Does technology serve the teacher and/or the learner? Has it become impossible to circumvent technology? Can technology cater for both teacher and learner needs and expectations? What can technology offer? Plenary speakers Claude GERMAIN : Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Leo van LIER : Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA David LITTLE : Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Joan NETTEN : Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada dead-line for paper proposal 15 August 2003 scientific committee decision 15 October 2003 final programme 10 December 2003 article length versions for early publication should be received before 15 February 2004 “early bird” registration before 15 February 2004 For furhter information, please, consult the conference web site: http://www.utc.fr/~untele
• March 13-14. TESOL Greece 25th Annual Convention, "Looking Back and Looking Forward: 25 Years of TESOL Greece," National Bank Training Centre, Glyfada, Athens, Greece. Web site http://www.tesolgreece.com/
• March 12-13. Georgia TESOL Annual Conference, "The World Within Our Grasp," Augusta, Georgia. Contact Ernie Blankenship, Conference Chair, 3048 Jonathan Ct., Snellville, Georgia 30039 USA. TEL. 770-985-1177 Web site http://www.gatesol.org/. Proposal Deadline: Jan-14-2004.
• Kansas Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. March 12-13, 2004. Fort Hays State University, KATESOL Spring Conference 2004, "Advocating for Language Learners in the Era of No Child Left Behind," Hays, Kansas. Robert Bruce Scott, Conference Chair. Web http://www.fhsu.edu/katesol/spring2004. Wrap up: http://www.fhsu.edu/katesol/katesolbe2004report.htm
• The 10th International TESOL Arabia Conference, "Standards in English Language Teaching and Assessment," Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Al Bustan Rotana, Dubai March 10-12th, Wednesday through Friday. E-mail tesolarabia@ibc-gulf.com. Web site http://www.tesolarabia.org/conference/index.php
• March 4-6. Bilkent University - Turkey - Ankara 9th International ELT Conference "Challenge in Learning: Helping Learners Realise Their Full Potential." E-mail chall@bilkent.edu.tr. Web site http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/busel/2004c.htm. Proposal Deadline: Dec-8-2003.
• Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo New York City March 1-4, 2004 at the Hilton New York. Register by February 17th and save $100 - for more information call (203) 662-2857 or visit http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,obu,1,7mig,7408,h922,6rol
• February 27-29. Nepal English Language Teachers' Association (NELTA). Tenth International Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal. Theme: "Learner Centredness in Large Classes" Contact: Ganga Ram Gautam, GPO Box: 8975 EPC: 2374 Kathmandu, Nepal. Tel. +9 771 4330243 E-mail ggautam@wlink.com.np E-mail ggautam@wlink.com.np.
• February 27-28, 2004. The Foreign Language Education Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Foreign Language Education Conference (TexFLEC 2004), "Language Pathways: A Kaleidoscope of Research and Practice," Austin, Texas. Foreign Language Education, D6500 SZB 528, University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712 USA. Tel. 512-471-4078. Fax 512-471-8460. E-mail texflec@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu.. Proposal deadline December 15, 2003. Web http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/flesa/texflec/tex2004/index.htm
• February 27-28, 2004. The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and Center for Urban Ethnography. 25th annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, "Ethnography as scientifically based research: Implications for educational policy and practice." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Contact: David Cassels Johnson, co-coordinator of the 2004 forum. E-mail cue@gse.upenn.edu.Proposal deadline October 3, 2004 (sic) Web http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/.
• February 27-28. Illinois TESOL-BE 30th Annual Convention. "Transformative Teaching." Navy Pier Convention Center, Chicago, Illinois. Contact Alan Seaman, ITBE Convention Chair, PMB 232, 8926 N. Greenwood, Niles, IL 60714-5163 USA. Tel. 312-409-4770. E-mail convention@itbe.org. Web site http://www.itbe.org/.
• February 13-15. Universiti Utara Malaysia. Knowledge Management International Conference and Exhibition, "Towards Intelligent and Co-operative Nations," Penang, Malaysia. Contact Conference Secretariat, KMICE 2004, School of Information Technology, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia, (Att: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Sobri Minai or Assoc. Prof. Dr. Norshuhada Shiratuddin) Phone: +604-9284782 Fax +604-9284753. E-mail kmice04@uum.edu.my. Web site http://www.kmice.uum.edu.my.
• February 6-7. The English for Specific Purposes (ESP) SIG National Conference, Donetsk State University of Economics and Trade, Donetsk, Ukraine. Contact: Igor Gizhko, Donestsk IATEFL Ukraine Regional Coordinator, PO Box 400, Donetsk, 83059, UKRAINE. Tel. 380-62-305-22-28 E-mail iatefl_donetsk@yahoo.com. Proposal Deadline: Dec-10-2003.
• January 29-31. Thailand TESOL, ELT 2004: Prioritizing Teacher Development, The Sofitel Hotel, Khonhaen, Thailand. Contact: Chaleosri Pibulchol, Presdient: chal@swu.ac.th or Maneepen Apibalsri, Program Chair: mapiball@ccs.sut.ac.th E-mail mapiball@ccs.sut.ac.th. Web site http://www.thaitesol.org/.
• January 29-31. TESOL Ukraine. IX TESOL - Ukraine Conference. Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, Horlivka, Donestska Oblast, Ukraine. Contact Person: Valeriy Leshchenko, vul. Rudakova 25, Horlivka 84626, Donetska Obl, Ukraine. Tel. 380-624-244857. E-mail vallesh@forlan.ghost.dn.ua. Web site http://www.tesol-ua.org/.
• Electronic Village (EV) Online Sessions 2004 The CALL Interest Section of TESOL - fourth round of online sessions, including readings, discussions, chats, guest speakers, and task-based activities. They run for six weeks, starting on January 26 and ending on March 5, 2004. The following Online Sessions were offered: * English for everybody; all gain, no loss? -- moderators: Professor Ulrich Bliesener, Jane Hoelker, Joyce Kling, Keiko Abé-Ford, Christine Coombe, Valerie S. Jakar - sponsor: EFL-Interest Section * Real English Online Video - moderators: Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Michael Marzio - sponsor: CALL-Interest Section, Video Interest Section * TESOL Drama Presents: Let's Put on a Play - moderators: Nigel Caplan, Gary Carkin, Judy Trupin - sponsor: SPL-Interest Section/TESOL Drama * Becoming a Webhead - moderators: Dafne Gonzalez, Teresa Almeida d'Eça, Susanne Nyrop, Maria Jordano - sponsor: CALL-Interest Section * Creating interactive online language lessons with Macromedia Flash MX - moderator: Marmo Soemarmo - sponsor: CALL-Interest Section * Assessing and Teaching Oral Communication Skills - moderators: Rebecca Dauer, Christine Parkhurst - sponsor: SPL-Interest Section * A Basic Workshop for using the Internet in class - moderator: JoAnn Miller -- sponsor: CALL-Interest Section * Creating and using weblogs in ESL/EFL - moderators: Anne Davis, Sandy Peters, Aaron Campbell, Joe Luft - sponsor: CALL-Interest Section For complete session descriptions and registration information, please visit the web site http://www.geocities.com/tesol_evonline/ (best viewed in Internet Explorer).
• January 22-24. Department of Discourse Studies of the Tilburg University in The Netherlands. A conference on Document Design. Contact: Cathy de Waele, E-mail document.design@uvt.nl. Web site http://let.uvt.nl/docdes/conference2004.
• January 21-23. American University in Cairo, Egypt. The Ninth EFL Skills Conference, "Integrating EFL Skills: Strategies for the Teacher, Creativity and Assessment" at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. E-mail eflskill@aucegypt.edu.

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• proceedings for the 2003 English Australia conference: http://www.englishaustralia.com.au/ea_conference03/proceedings/pdf/006F_Brandon.pdf
• APAMALL 2003 and ROCMELIA 2003 Conference Co-Sponsors: ROCMELIA, KAMALL Affiliates: CALICO, EUROCALL, IALLT, LET, KAMALL and WORLDCALL Conference Theme: Integrating MALL into Foreign Language Instruction Conference Dates and Venue: December 19, 20 and 21 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), 2003 National Chia-Yi University (Chia-Yi City, Taiwan) Early Registration Deadline: September 23, 2003 1. Language Proficiency Test on the Web 2. Virtual Community Language Instruction 3. Collaborative Learning 4. Communicative Instruction 5. Corpus Linguistics and Language Instruction 6. Courseware Design 7. Courseware Evaluation Models 8. Culture and Language Instruction 9. Educational Simulation and Gaming 10. Expert Systems and Language Instruction 11. Global Education 12. Hypermedia and Language Instruction 13. Intelligent Language Instruction 14. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 15. Interactive Language Instruction 16. Language Instruction Modeling 17. Language Instruction Strategies 18. Learning Motivation and Language Instruction 19. Linguistics and Hypermedia 20. Linguistics and Multimedia 21. Linguistics and Language Instruction 22. Literature and Hypermedia 23. Literature and Multimedia 24. Literature and Language Instruction 25. Multimedia and Distance Language Instruction 26. Multimedia Language Instruction 27. Networked Resources and Language Instruction 28. Society and Language Instruction 29. Authoring Systems and 30. Artificial Intelligence and Language Instruction. For further information: http://www.apamall.org (The Asia-Pacific Association for Multimedia Assisted Language Learning)
• 5th International Conference on Information Technology in Regional Areas (ITiRA) Conference Dates: 15 - 17 December, 2003 Conference Venue: Rydges Oasis Resort, Caloundra, Queensland, Australia Further details available at: http://itira.cqu.edu.au/2003
• LearningChannel.org (www.learningchannel.org) of OneWorld South Asia is launching an email and web-based discussion forum being held in association with the Youth Employment Summit (YES), which is holding its first Regional Summit , in Hyderabad, India, from December 14-20, 2003. The Hyderabad YES Forum 2003 is the first regional event of the YES Decade Campaign of Action launched at the Youth Employment Summit (YES 2002) held in Alexandria, Egypt. The Hyderabad Forum will showcase effective youth employment strategies across the globe and help forge partnerships for creating economically and environmentally sound livelihood opportunities for young people. To know more about: LearningChannel.org, http://www.learningchannel.org/about/learningchannel/front.shtml
• Dec 10-11. TESOL Arabia 7th Annual Current Trends in English Language Testing Conference 2003, "The Future of Langauge Assessment," Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Contact Christine Coombe, Conference Co-Chair, Dubai Men's College, Higher Colleges of Technology, PO Box 15825, Dubai, UAE. TEL. 97150-6194796 FAX. 9714-3362771. E-mail christine.coombe@hct.ac.ae. Web site http://ctelt.com/.
• 5th Laptop & e-Learning Faculty Forum sponsored by the University City Professional Network (UCPN), Sharjah, and jointly organized by the Higher Colleges of Technology’s Sharjah Colleges. It will be hosted at HCT’s Sharjah Women’s College Campus on Wednesday, 10th December 2003.
• Dec 9. National Stakeholder Teleconference with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and U.S. Department of Justice Coordination and Review Section. Contact: Kathy Poulos-Minott E-mail lep@main.rr.com. Web site http://www.leptaskforce.org/.
• The Lebanese American University is hosting The Second 'Language and Change' Regional Conference On December 6 and 7, 2003. The four major themes of the conference are the following: Sociolinguistics (diversity and change, multilingualism, bilingualism, gender issues, pragmatics, culture) CALL (use of computer language programs, emails, internet to motivate learners and ensure better language acquisition) English Language Teaching and Learning (Teaching English at school and/or university level) Management and Leadership (managing ELT classes, centers, programs at a time of rapid change) Format for Proposals Abstracts for papers should be around 300 words. Send one copy of the abstract complete with the title, author's name, and affiliation, an autobiography of 50 words, in an email as the body of the message to the following email addresses: Rima Bahous: rbahous@lau.edu.lb & Nola Bacha: nbacha@lau.edu.lb Deadline for sending abstracts is September 30, 03. Papers are to be planned for a -minute presentation and a 10-minute discussion. In collaboration with the British Council and Librairie du Liban Publishers and Pearson Education. Contact Rima Bahous: rbahouse@lau.edu.lb and Nola Bacha: nbacha@lau.edu.lb for details of submission. E-mail rbahous@lau.edu.lb.
• Independent Language Learning: New Research Directions Conference Department of Languages, The Open University UK 4th-5th December 2003 at Milton Keynes, UK. Contact: DoL Conference Administrator, Department of Languages, FELS, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. FAX: 44 (0) 1908 652 187 E-mail dol-conference@open.ac.uk. . This conference focusses on new research in: • Learner strategies and strategy training • Independent Language Learning • Computer-Mediated Communication • Intercultural competence • Materials and curriculum design • Portfolios • Study Abroad • Translation PLENARY SPEAKERS include: * Andrew Cohen, University of Minnesota, USA * Mike Levy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia * David Little, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * Cynthia White, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand The conference programme and registration form are now available from http://dol-conf.open.ac.uk
• Online Educa Berlin 2003: The largest international e-learning conference takes place this year from December 3 - 5, 2003 in the Hotel InterContinental Berlin. This years themes include: Learning in Enterprises, E-Learning Policies in Practice, New Roles for Teachers and Trainers, Managing Change in Higher Education, Innovative Learning Approaches, Learning in Distributed Environments, Quality Issues and Management and Future Technologies for Learning. The conference agenda is divided into Pre-Conference Workshops, Plenary Sessions, Presentation Sessions, Debates, Special Focus Sessions, Practical Events including "Show and Tell' Sessions, Demonstrations and Mini-Plug Fests. The conference agenda is accompanied by an exhibition and a series of Vendor Presentation Sessions. The closing date for proposals is April 18, 2003. Visit the conference's newly launched site at www.online-educa.com.
• The Asian Association of Computer Assisted Language Learning 2003 ASIA CALL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE has now rescheduled to run from 2 - 5 DECEMBER 2003 at RSU(potentially), Bangkok, Thailand, instead of the previously published dates of 14 - 16. All Plenary speakers and presenters on our Conference have reconfirmed their attendance at our new Conference in December. We have accepted 70 research papers dealing with various aspects of CALL, TELL, EFL, EAP, ESP and CMC Linguistics from around the world, including USA, Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Iran, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam and Uzbekistan. The overall theme of the conference is: INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY and EDUCATION Sub-topics include, but are not restricted to: - Language Instruction - Collaborative CALL projects - Computer-mediated Instruction - Corpus Linguistics and Language Instruction - Web-based Language Instruction - Distance Language Instruction - Literature, Culture and Multimedia - Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning - Technology Enhanced Language Learning - CALL & Less commonly taught languages - CALL & New learning environments. For more information about the conference, please visit our website at: http://www.asiacall.org
• Computer Digital Expo Conference & Expo - America's 21st Century Information Technology Conference & Expo - coming to the new Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas November 17-21, 2003. Computer Digital Expo is the next generation technology event replacing Comdex that will encompass computers, portable devices, hosted services, pervasive access and the rapid changes they are undergoing. Visit http://www.cdxpo.com/ today for the latest updates and announcements.
• International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education tohe@ipfw.edu "Online Classes Go Mainstream" November 10-13, 2003 Preconference Web Site http://www.ipfw.edu/as/2003tohe/
• November 7-9, 2003. Asia TEFL (Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language). First Annual Conference, " TEFL in Asia: Emerging Issues," Hotel Nongshim, Busan, South Korea. Contact Dr. Je Myoung YU, Conference Chair, email: jeyu@sch.ac.kr, fax: +82-41-530-1381; Dr. Kilryoung LEE, Conference Director, email: kilryoung@hotmail.com, fax: +82-2-965-7047. Website: http://www.asiatefl.org/ Call for Papers Deadline: August 15, 2003.
• Information Technology in Regional Areas Conference (ITiRA) 2003 Conference. Dates: 5 - 7 November 2003 Venue: Rydges Oasis Resort, Caloundra, Queensland Australia Further details available at: http://itira.cqu.edu.au/2003
• Wednesday, November 5, 12 noon in New York City Noon in Indianapolis and 17:00 GMT: Theresa Ochoa - "Simulations in Teaching: Special Education Multimedia PBL Cases," in which the real life nature of simulations prepares students to respond to the problems they face in their careers. Archive: http://video.indiana.edu:8080/ramgen/vic/soe_brownbag_20031105.rm (not found on Jan 10, 2007); but last semester's video shows are still available to view, at: http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/ebrownbag/
• Wednesday, October 29, Dr. Curtis Bonk talked about "Addressing Student Motivation and Learning Styles With Different Blends of Technology" as a part of the Indiana University Office of Instructional Consulting's "E-Brownbag" Noontime Video Talk Show series. Brief description: Instead of debating the costs and benefits of online learning, many educators are now exploring ways to blend e-learning technologies and environments. Some might blend to take advantage of face-to-face and virtual learning opportunities or to meld synchronous and asynchronous technologies. Others are blending their approach in order to address different learning styles. While learning styles continues to be a controversial topic, the diversity of students in online environments has renewed interest in this area. Fortunately, there are hundreds of proven ways to motivate students in online environments that can be explored according to several learning style schemes. As a result, this session will include many practical strategies that can be incorporated directly into one's virtual class or program. Archive file not found Jan 10, 2007 but Last semester's video shows are also still available to view, at: http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/ebrownbag/
• The 15th triennial CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION MINISTERS (CCEM) will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland) from 27 - 30 October 2003. There are three events, around the theme, "Closing the Gap: Access, Inclusion and Achievement": The Education Ministers' conference, a Parallel Symposium and Showcases for Youth and for Best Practice. Further information: http://www.15ccem.com
• Datamatix Gitex Conferences at the Dubai World Trade Center, from the 18th to 23rd October 2003. The event discusses the latest trends of e-business, e-government, leading-edge technologies in e-Security, Databases, Web services, ASP’s, Networking, Operating systems, knowledge management, SCM and CRM. The event will have numerous technical and research presentations, active discussions on products and service solutions. - http://www.datamatix-dubai.com for Online registration and for any additional information that you may require.
• The League for Innovation Conference on Information Technology (CIT) 2003 will be in session in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sunday, 19 October 2003 and perhaps before and/or after that date.
• 11th Annual Korea TESOL International Conference Gateways to Growth: Exploring ELT Resources October 18-19, 2003 Seoul Educational Training Institute Seoul, Korea CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.kotesol.org/conference The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2003
• IR 4.0: Broadening the Band International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 16-19 Lead organizer Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto . Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2003 Conference Website: http://www.aoir.org/2003 | http://www.ecommons.net/aoir (timeoult on Jan 10, 2007) Digital communications networks such as the Internet are changing the way people interact with each other, with profound effects on social relations and institutions. Yet many remain excluded from access and meaningful participation. It is timely to consider who is included, who is excluded and what we now know about the composition and activities of online communities. Internet Research (IR) 4.0 will feature a variety of perspectives on Internet, organized under the theme Broadening the Band. As in previous conferences, the aim is to develop a coherent theoretical and pragmatic understanding of the Internet and those that are empowered and disenfranchised by it. IR 4.0 will bring together prominent scholars, researchers, creators, and practitioners from many disciplines, fields and countries for a program of presentations, panel discussions, and informal exchanges. IR 4.0 will take place at the Hilton Hotel in the heart of downtown Toronto. The conference is hosted by a team led by the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) and its partners at the University of Toronto.
• October 9-12, 2003 - The 6th Congress of the Americas. University of the Americas -Puebla, Mexico, http://www.udlap.mx/congress/
• MULTILITERACIES: THE CONTACT ZONE 2003 International AILA Conference on Literacy Location: Ghent, Belgium Date: 22-27 September 2003 Call Deadline: 28 March, 2003 Contact Persons: Ronald Soetaert - Bart Bonamie Contact Email: literacy@memling.rug.ac.be Website: http://memling.rug.ac.be/aila
• INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF THE INDEPENDENT LEARNING ASSOCIATION 'Supporting independent language learning in the 21st century'. University of Melbourne, Australia September 13-14, 2003. A conference for practitioners, academics and researchers involved in English language self-access centres and independent learning centres, and for those with an interest in the development of learner autonomy. The conference will offer strong leadership in practice, research and theory across all the conference themes which are listed on our website. The three distinguished keynote speakers are: Sara Cotterall, from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A leader in the study of learner autonomy in language learning including learner beliefs, self-access language learning, learner strategies and learner advising. Terry Lamb, from The University of Sheffield, UK. A leading researcher into learners' constructions of language learning, and their relationships to motivation and learner autonomy. He is currently developing an Educational Doctorate in Autonomy in Language Learning. Richard Pemberton, from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. A leading practitioner and researcher, currently leading a project to develop an interactive, adaptive online language advising system: http://www.independentlearning.org - Any queries can be addressed to the conference information centre at info@independentlearning.org
• TESOL Symposium University of Rome, Rome, Italy "ESL/EFL Standards for Younger Learners" Saturday, September 13, 2003 http://www.tesol.org/edprg/2003/symposium.html TESOL invites you to participate in a symposium devoted to one of the most complex issues in ESL and EFL: standards for younger learners. Designed by ESOL professionals from the United States and Europe, the symposium will reflect ESL and EFL perspectives. Three outstanding keynote speakers will share insights from their work and research on ESL/EFL standards for younger learners. a.. EFL Standards in European Primary Schools: From Lip Service to Professional Breakthrough; Herbert Puchta, Pedagogical Academy, Graz, Austria a.. From ESL to EFL: Lessons Learned and Applications of TESOL's ESL Standards; Deborah J. Short, Language Education and Academic Development division, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), Washington, DC, USA a.. Framing Assessment: Breaking the Mold; Pauline Rea-Dickins, University of Bristol, UK
• Association for Learning Technologies, ALT-C 2003: Communities of Practice 8 to 10 September 2003, Sheffield, United Kingdom ALT-C 2003 is the tenth anniversary conference of the Association for Learning Technology (www.alt.ac.uk). The conference is aimed at established practitioners and researchers and those interested in introducing technology at all levels in further and higher education. It will promote reflection, evaluation and interactivity. Conference themes: * Diversity of learning through technologies * Learning designs * The learners' experiences * Inclusive approaches through technologies * Learning, teaching & assessment strategies * Developing learning environments The deadline for research papers (max 6,000 words) is 01 March 2003. See the web site for full submission details. E-mail enquiries: hharwood@brookes.ac.uk Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/alt Submission deadline: 1 March 2003 Organized by: The Association for Learning Technology - This announcement distributed via http://www.ConferenceAlerts.com
• New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods September 4-6,2003 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. http://www.inms.umn.edu/convenings/newresearch/main.htm The Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, in collaboration with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Department of Rhetoric, invites you to apply for participation in an upcoming symposium: New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods Symposium. The Internet and evolving new media and communication technologies offer researchers two sets of opportunities: the development of new research techniques and a new, wide-open communication arena to be studied. New techniques such as email surveying, chat space interviewing, electronic brainstorming, user session statistics analysis, and eye-tracking are joining tried and true research methods. New communication phenomena and emerging media usage scenarios are calling for analysis. Studies using the results of these new techniques and on the new media arena are well into the mainstream of research agendas in universities, but the focus of the papers tend to be on the findings, not the determination and effectiveness of the methods used to get those findings. This is what the New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods Symposium intends to do. This will be a working symposium in which participants will contribute as much to the conference proceedings as the presenters of papers. Researchers have been selected to present papers that represent a variety of disciplines and research methods. Now we need the participants who will, after presentation of the papers, discuss in small groups the implications of using new research methods and traditional methods in new ways. The discussions and recommendations of the symposium participants will be the core of the conference proceedings with the intention of setting an agenda of examination of new research methods and to identify research implications that require further attention. We are looking for participants who would like to engage in a three days of deep thought about research methods. As a participant you will part of a task force, not just an audience. If you would like to help take the thinking about research methods to the next level, we hope you will apply to attend. Attendance will be limited to 50 participants.
• EUROCALL 2003 will be held at The University of Limerick (http://www.ul.ie/) September 3-6, 2003 Conference main theme and title: NEW LITERACIES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING; The Programme was on the conference website at http://www.iccconcepts.com/eurocall/ (timeoult on Jan 10, 2007). Please note that bookings for pre-conference workshops should be made EARLY. The 'early-bird' deadline for conference registrations is 31st May.
• The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning is seeking well-written manuscript submissions for its upcoming Fall/ Winter 2003 issue. We welcome all manuscripts pertaining to Open and Distance Learning Research, Theory and Best Practice for this open issue. Deadline for submissions for IRRODL's Fall/ Winter issue is September 1, 2003. IRRODL is also soliciting manuscripts focusing on theory, research, and/ or best practice for the volume 5, number 1 theme issue, to be published in Spring 2004. The theme is Distance Education for Development. Thomas Hülsmann of Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, will serve as Guest Editor. Deadline for submissions is November 1, 2003. For full details, visit www.irrodl.org
• Postponed from May, then held Aug 20-23, 2003: http://www.globalknowledge.org/gender2003 - COL (Commonwealth of Learning), the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) the International Telecommunications Union and the Government of Malaysia (Ministry of Energy, Communications and Multimedia, the Ministry of Women and Family Development and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission) are organising an invitational FORUM ON ICTs AND GENDER ("Optimising Opportunities"), where Commonwealth experience and recommendations will be shared with those from other parts of the world. The Forum will be held in Kuala Lumpur. Originally scheduled to take place in May, the event has been postponed to a date later this year (yet to be determined). Participation at this event is by invitation only. Interested individuals are encouraged to submit their CVs for consideration as a speaker or participant. Further information: http://www.col.org/wdd
• International summer courses Internet and multimedia for language teachers in Amsterdam: Effective Use of the Internet in Language Teaching (17-23 August) and Digital Audio and Video in Language Teaching (24-30 August) offer a unique opportunity to learn together with colleges from other European countries and from other continents how Internet and its multimedial applications can be used quickly and effectively in language lessons in. The social and cultural evening programme offers an excellent opportunity for exchanging experiences and for enjoying. The emphasis is not on the technology, but on the methodological applications: a basic level of ICT skills is necessary. The courses are offered for the third consecutive year by the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University in co-operation with the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. They have been approved by the European Commission for inclusion in the Comenius - Grundtvig / Catalogue: teachers in secondary education may be eligible for grants. For further information, check http://www.amsu.edu/courses/language/#lang2 - http://www.amsu.edu/courses/language or send an email message to the course co-ordinator, Ton Koet, a.g.m.koet@hetnet.nl
• FlashKit Conference & Expo 2003 - The Event For Leading Edge Flash Development - Aug 21-22 - San Jose, CA. The FlashKit conference series is designed to illustrate the future of Flash and Internet technology. Flash is a highly versatile medium for creating animated, dynamic, extremely interactive Web site content. From beginners to professional designers, to marketing pros looking for creative new ideas, you won't want to miss this event! http://www.jupiterevents.com/flash/summer03/index.html
• Symposium on Language for Special Purposes (lsp2003) at the University of Surrey between 18-22 August 2003 http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/lsp2003/
• The Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (ILO) of the University of Amsterdam in co-operation with the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University are presenting the courses: "Effective Use of the Internet in Language Teaching: What & How" and "Digital Audio and Video in Language Teaching: What & How ", to be held in Amsterdam from 17 until 23 August and from 24 until 30 August 2003 respectively. In these intensive courses participants will acquire specific knowledge about Internet applications and resources and/or digital audio and video relevant to foreign language teaching. The courses will help the participants to create language materials that they can use in their classroom practice. The emphasis will not be on technology itself, but on the methodological applications. These courses are intended for newly qualified and practising foreign language teachers interested in the possibilities of the Internet and/or digital audio and video for their classroom practice. A basic knowledge of computers is necessary: participants should at least be familiar with Windows platforms and word-processors. There will be no facilities available for Mac users. The courses offer a unique opportunity to learn together with colleges from other European countries and from other continents how Internet and its multimedia applications can be used quickly and effectively in language lessons. The social and cultural evening programme offers an excellent opportunity for exchanging experiences and for enjoying. The course fees are Euro 795 and 850 respectively and include: lunches during the course, tea and coffee, the course dinner and free access to the cultural evening programme of The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University. The courses have been approved by the European Commission for inclusion in the Comenius - Grundtvig / Catalogue. Teachers in secondary education may be eligible for grants within this framework. Course codes in the Comenius - Grundtvig / Catalogue: * NL-2003-002 Effective Use of the Internet in Language Teaching: What and How * NL-2003-003 Digital Audio and Video in Language Teaching: : What and How For further information on these grants, please visit the Comenius - Grundtvig / Catalogue at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/comenius/projects.htm#catalogues For more information about these courses and for the application form, please, visit our website http://www.amsu.edu/courses/language, or contact us at office@amsu.edu. Should you have specific question about the programmes' content and speakers, please, contact the Course Leader Ton Koet by e-mail (a.g.m.koet@hetnet.nl).
• Inter-American Organization of Higher Education IOHE http://www.oui-iohe.qc.ca , which includes about 400 universities, and EISTA's Organizing Committee, invite you to participate in the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications EISTA 2003, which will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, in July 31, August 1-2, 2003. The main objective of EISTA '03 is to provide a forum for the presentation of both: solutions and problems of the applications of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education and Training. You can find more information about the conference, in our web page http://www.confinf.org/eista03 .
• Syllabus2003, the 10th annual summer conference on education technology, July 27-31, opens with a keynote by Roy Pea, Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Pea has spent his career exploring how technology can transform learning and teaching in the classroom. Focusing on high performance learning environments, he'll describe his experiences at Stanford's Wallenberg Hall and elsewhere in enhancing place-based learning. Don't miss out on all the tremendous speakers, sessions, networking, and educational opportunities this summer. Make plans now to attend Syllabus2003 at the San Jose Marriott and Stanford University. To register and for complete details, go to http://info.101com.com/default.asp?id=1042.
• Seventh World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics will be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 27-30, 2003 with emphasis on the area of Educational Systems and Technologies, mainly Technological Support in Computer education. See the conference web page http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/ or http://www.iiis.org/sci2003/ .
• The Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) is organising the International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE 2003), which will take place at the School of Design Engineering from 22-26 July 2003. One of the conference themes is devoted to Language Learning and Teaching with a special focus on TELL and CALL. Further information is available at the ICEE-2003 web site: http://www.upv.es/icee2003
• Training seminar for translation teachers in Granada, Spain 21-25 July 2003 - The Consortium for Training Translation Teachers, in cooperation with the Universidad de Granada and the Intercultural Studies Group, is pleased to announce an intensive training seminar to be held in English. Based on the model used in Tarragona in 2001 and Vicenza in 2002, the seminar will focus on the impact of new technologies on translator training. Further information at: http://www.ice.urv.es/trans/future/granada/
• The ELearnChina Conference 2003, Edinburgh 21st 22nd & 23rd July 2003 - Shanghai & Beijing ELearnChina welcomes people from the commercial and educational sector involved in E-Learning, Distance Learning, Training, HR, IT Training, Localisation, ICT or Knowledge Management, to this world first international event. http://www.elearnchina.com
• International Conference on Education and Information Systems (July 31 -Aug. 1-2, 2003, Florida) http://www.confinf.org/eista03
• ELT Resources Innovation and Change 14- 31 July 2003, Islamabad - a three week summer school for teachers of the English Language will for the first time be held in Pakistan at the Margalla Hotel in Islamabad from 14 to 31 July 2003 and will bring practising English Language teachers from Pakistan into contact with their counterparts from across the region. We will be inviting participation from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Iran and Afghanistan. This regional mix will also be reflected in our selection of trainers for the event. Regional networking and the sharing of expertise and best practice will form the backbone of the event. Hornby Regional School, Pakistan takes as its theme ELT Resources: Innovation and Change. Language Teaching has developed fast in recent years and there is now a wealth of new resources available in software packages, CD ROMs and via the Internet. However, in low resource environments like Pakistan, progress is often much slower, and teachers have very limited access to new ideas and materials. This course will therefore seek to review recent developments in language teaching, familiarise participants with new resources available through the new technologies, and develop plans for the introduction of new materials to their teaching environments. We hope the course will lead to a number of successful bids for funding from ELTeCS, the English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme. The School will be organised by the British Council Pakistan in collaboration with Hornby Educational Trust, Beaconhouse School System, Aga Khan University Centre of English Language, and Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers. Anyone interested in taking part in the event as a participant or as a tutor, should contact:saima.satti@britishcouncil.org.pk or write to: Hornby Regional School, Pakistan Secretariat Director ELT British Council 65 Mozang Road, Lahore. (042) 111-424-424 ext. 559. You can find previous ELTeCS-AME-L postings at: http://mis.britishcouncil.org/archives/eltecs-ame-l.html
• The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Topic: Language and Speech Technology in Language Learning Lille (France), Monday July 7 - Friday July 18, 2003 Organized by the University of Lille. For this school we have chosen a topic of great relevance to researchers and developers in Europe and in other multilingual environments: the use of language and speech technology in language learning, both of spoken and of written language. The goal of this workshop is to get young researchers on a track that will eventually contribute to an important application area. The underlying vision (or dream) is The automatic animated language tutor. Audience and aims: We see the school as mainly research and development oriented, and hence the primary audience are researchers, developers and integrators who will make our vision happen (rather than teachers who would use it). Both technological and pedagogical aspects will be taken into consideration The aims are: * to make the students familiar with the main principles and problems of language learning/teaching * to make them familiar with current best practice in computer assisted language learning * to make them familiar with the main challenges in computer assisted language learning Participants are expected to have a general computational background and some familiarity with language or speech research and/or processing. After completion of the summer school participants should be able to function in teams aimed at designing or implementing tools, environments or courses for Computer Assisted Language Learning (abbreviated CALL). Course programme: The provisonal programme is available at http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003/schedule.html
• The German Studies Association of Australia announces an international conference: Diverse Directions in German Studies (4-7 July, 2003 in Sydney, Australia). The inaugural GSAA conference will explore new avenues in diverse areas of German Studies. We invite papers that reflect the broad range of academic interests within the discipline and open up perspectives for the future. (See GSAA website: http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/GSAA) Panel topics: *German Studies: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural and Intertextual Direction= s *Gender and German Studies *German Language Acquisition: Linguistic and Pedagogical Perspectives *German Studies and the Challenge of Multi-Media and Flexible Learning Symposiasts: Erika Diehl (Universit=E9 de Gen=E8ve) Uschi Felix (Monash University, Melbourne) Ortrud Gutjahr (Universit=E4t Hamburg) Patricia Herminghouse (University of Rochester; President Elect, German Studies Association) Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts) Alison Lewis (University of Melbourne) Tim Mehigan (University of Melbourne) Rolf Renner (Frankreich-Zentrum, Universit=E4t Freiburg) The Austrian writer Sabine Scholl will give a talk based on her book of essays "Die Welt als Ausland. Zur Literatur zwischen den Kulturen." (1999)
• The 2003 KATE International Conference will be held in Daejeon, the Republic of Korea, from June 26th (Thursday) to 28th (Saturday), 2003, by the Korea Association of Teachers of English (KATE). The theme of the conference is "English Language Policy and Curriculum". On June 26th, 2003, Thursday, pre-conference sessions will be organized by some SIGs, either in the form of lecture or workshop.For further information, please contact Dr. Hwa-ja Lee (Conference Chair, Sunchon National University) by e-mail at Lhj@sunchon.ac.kr or by phone at +82 61 750 3327(Office).
• 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo Spring 2003 The fastest growing and largest event focused on 802.11 business comes to Boston June 25-27. Whether you're an expert in 802.11 or need to quickly get up to speed and profit from it, this is the event for you to attend for this exploding industry. Endorsed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Register early & save! http://www.jupiterevents.com/80211/spring03/index.html
• the Language Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, together with the English Department and the International College of Chinese Studies, Nankai University, will organise an International Conference, "Fostering partnership in language teaching and learning", to be held from 24 to 28 June, 2003. CALL FOR PAPERS The field of language education has seen greater collaboration over the past decade among teachers, learners, researchers in various disciplines, curriculum specialists and stakeholders. This conference will offer opportunities for participants to share ideas and experience in building partnerships with each other for better teaching and learning. We invite proposals for papers, workshops, demonstrations, colloquia and poster sessions about fostering partnership in language teaching and learning. Presenters may wish to address one or more of the following themes: Experimenting with innovative ways of organising teaching, learning, curriculum design, assessment, programme evaluation Promoting interdisciplinary, cross-curricular collaboration Advocating a philosophy of co-operation with stakeholders Fostering partnership among primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in language education and research KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor LIU Shuxin, Nankai University Professor Keith MORRISON, Inter-University Institute of Macau Professor Harold SCHIFFMAN, University of Pennsylvania Professor TSE Shek-kam, University of Hong Kong. You will receive notification of the acceptance of your proposal by 3 March, 2003. By post: 2003 Conference Committee Language Centre Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong SAR, CHINA By fax: (852) 2335 0249 By email: lc2003en@ust.hk (for English papers) lc2003ch@ust.hk (for Chinese papers) REGISTRATION Early Bird Registration: by 24 March, 2003 Registration: by 6 June, 2003 ENQUIRIES For further information, please contact us by phone or by email. You can also visit our conference website to find out more about our conference. Email: lcconf03@ust.hk Phone: (852) 2358 7850 Website: http://lc.ust.hk/~centre/conf2003/
• ED-MEDIA 2003 will be held in Honolulu June 23-28, 2003, Theme: Indigenous Peoples & Technology. Organized 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. The deadline for submissions is December 19. The full CFP is available at: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
  June 25th GMT 23.30 - 00.30 (June 26)- Aiden Yeh and Dafne Gonzales helped Michael Coghlan with a presentation for the Ed-Media conference in Hawaii entitlted Voice Online - the Missing Link? If would like to join this presentation you are very welcome to do so. You should be able to hear the 4 remote presenters, and participate in the text chat. Further details about this session are at http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/edmedia/mcsession.htm
• 2nd International Conference ICT in ELT 6T/60 (Teaching Teachers To Teach Through Technology). The event is to be held 20-22 June in Gliwice, Poland. Organized by The British Council Poland, IATEFL PL Computer SIG, Wellington Institute of Languages http://www.ICTconference.gliwice.pl
• The 8th biennial conference of the International Association for Language Learning Technology IALLT conference will take place at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor June 17-21, 2003. Schedules and abstracts for workshops, sessions, and showcase sessions, as well as on-line registration can be accessed at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lrc/iallt Early bird discounts with great savings on registration end April 15, 2003. See also http://iallt.org/conferences/index.html
• 2003 conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, to be held in Bergen Norway on June 14-18, 2003. For further information on the conference see http://www.intermedia.uib.no/cscl2003/ - Event descriptions at: http://www.intermedia.uib.no/cscl/interactiveevents/
• CADE-ACED, Memorial University of Newfoundland, College of the North Atlantic, and the Department of Education, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador are pleased to announce the 20th anniversary annual conference http://www.cade-aced2003.ca/ in St. John's June 7 - 11, 2003
• JALTCALL 2003 which was to be held at Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, June 7-8 has been postponed indefinitely because the hosting university president was advised to do so because of the threat of SARS.. The theme is "CALL for ALL," and just to add a little fun to the event, the motif will be Hawaiian! This will be the best conference yet, with expanded services and expanded presentation categories. See the Conference Website (accessed from the CALL SIG website) http://jaltcall.org for more information.
• The 3rd International IT and Multimedia in English Language Teaching (ITMELT 2003) conference will be held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on the 6th and 7th June 2003. The overall theme of the conference is "Computer Enhanced Language Learning: secondary and tertiary environments, processes and products" For further information on sub-themes and abstract submission, see the conference website: http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/conference. The plenary speaker via video link is Professor Carol Chapelle (Iowa State University). Invited speakers include Dr Ken Beatty (City University, Hong Kong), Dr Robert Debski (University of Melbourne, Australia), Dr Debra Hoven (University of Queensland, Australia), Professor Thomas Cobb (Universit du Quebec Montreal, Canada), Dr John Milton (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) and Gary Motteram (University of Manchester).
• Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics holds its 2003 conference as part of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from June 1st to the 4th
• A conference on China and the Internet: Technology, Economy, and Society in Transition will be held at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on May 30-31, 2003. It will be jointly sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford, and the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for presentations or panels on any of the following topics: - China's Internet policy and regulation - usage patterns and social change - regional network developments - China's e-government initiatives - e-commerce and the Internet market - online journalism in China - network security - discourse of online citizen or if you have any further questions or suggestions about the conference, please contact Prof. Peter Yu at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (peter_yu@msn.com) or Jack Qiu at the Annenberg School for Communication (lqiu@usc.edu). The deadline for submission is December 15, 2002.
• University College of the Cariboo http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/100mh/connect/ Community-based learner support services is the focus of the Cariboo Connections 2003 conference in Merritt, British Columbia, Canada May 29-30, 2003.
• There is an International Education Technology Conference and Fair May 28 - 30, 2003 at Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus. More details at http://egitek2003.emu.edu.tr/.
• COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE IN RESEARCH AND TEACHING Socrates / Comenius / Grundtvig Course Database Course Information / Reference number ES-004-2002 Universidad de Murcia, Spain May 26 - June 1 2003 An interantional course within the Comenius initiative aimed at increasing educators' skills in using computers for language analysis and computer-assisted language learning/ teaching. Attendants are expected to gain familiarity with -Basic computer language analysis skills : concordance software, frequency analysis and compilation of language corpora -Basic pedagogical skills : implementation of language corpora in the classroom, design of applications and networked solutions for the distribution of a data -Driven methodology skills to be devoloped by attendants : -Computer analysis of language -Data sources management -Corpus design -Use of frequency lists : production, summaries and exercises -Use of concordances : study of words in context -Collocation analysis techniques -Corpus exploration techniques -Exploration of fields of application : word processing, lexicography and data retrieval -Implementation of language corpora in the classroom. -Using multimedia labs : networked solutions Further information can be obtained from http://www.um.es/engphil/profesorado/pperez/comenius/ - Registration deadline: March 25, 2003
• The Irish Learning Technology Association (www.ilta.net) has a small budget to help bring in overseas expert eLearning speakers to our annual conference: EdTech2003: The Fourth Annual Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, which will take place in Waterford, Ireland, on the 22nd and 23rd of May, 2003. If you live outside Ireland, and would like to present at the conference, just send a short email to: info@ilta.net, saying who you are, what your background in eLearning is, and what you would like to talk about. Information on this, and previous conferences can be found at the following URLs: http://www.itsligo.ie/staff/bmulligan/EdTech2003 http://www.itsligo.ie/staff/bmulligan/EdTech2002 http://www.itsligo.ie/staff/bmulligan/EdTech2001
• 2003 Asia CALL International Conference Short Title: ASIA CALL 2003 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: MAY. 14 -16, 2003 Call Deadline: FEB. 10, 2003. The conference is organized by the Asia Computer Assisted Language Learning Association and the Office of Rajabhat Institutes Council. THEME: Information & Communication Technology and Education in Asia SUB THEME: IT and University Education IT and Language Education IT and Literature Education IT and Culture Education OBJECTIVES: To offer Information Technology related to University Education and how to develop IT skills in the classroom to Faculty and researchers. PLENARY SPEAKERS: 1. Dr. Thomas Robb (Kyoto Sangyo Univ., Japan) - The Internet & Education 2. Dr. Euiyon Cho (Dongguk Univ., Korea) - CALL & Linguistics 3. Dr. Yoonil Auh (Central Michigan Univ., USA) - Distance Education 4. Dr. Charles ESS (Drury Univ., USA) - IT & Culture Transfer 5. Dr. Andrew Lian (Univ. of Canberra, Australia) - Round Table Organizer CALL for PAPERS: For more information about the conference, please visit our website at: http://www.asiacall.org
• There was a symposium taking place at Monterey Institute of International Studies on May 10. It is cosponsored by the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers. The topic is how to reach and teach to true near-native proficiency. A quadrilingual NASA astronaut will be the keynote speaker. Papers and discussion groups round out the day. The speakers and discussion group chairs are among the leaders in the US on this topic. You can find more information at http://www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org. Click on the conference/symposium button.
• May 6, 7-10, 2003 - WorldCALL 2003 in Banff, Alberta, Canada hosted jointly by: the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. Check out the WorldCALL website for future announcements concerning dates, conference programme, etc: http://www.worldcall.org. The WorldCALL 2003 Conference theme is "CALL from the Margins". Keynote speakers: Peter Austin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Carl Blyth, University of Texas at Austin, who will speak on Managing Change and the Impact of CALL, Michel Laurier, Université de Montréal, who will speak on Evaluation and Multimedia, and Mark Warshauer, University of California, Irvine, who will speak on CALL and Human and Social Development. There is a flyer here in English and French: http://fis.ucalgary.ca/Brian/WCFlyerSmall.pdf. The conference is hosted by the Universities of Alberta and Calgary, and will be held at the internationally renowned Banff Conference Centre, in the heart of the Canadian Rockies: http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/conferences/visitor/ Banff is about 90 mins. drive from Calgary airport, and there are regular, frequent shuttle buses.
• April 29, Tuesday, from 08.30 to 09.30 GMT Teresa Almeida d'Eca organized a Webheads online event at the April 28-30, 2003 - APPI (Portuguese Assn. of English Language Teachers) conference in Sesimbra, Portugal on Rethinking Language Teaching Resources, http://www.appi.pt. Teresa made a short presentation (about 15 mins.) of the Webheads in Action and then had Webheads come in through voice chat to talk a little about us and the work we've done, and answer any questions the audience may ask. There is a short paper based on the content of the presentation at http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/papers/appi2003/meet-wia.htm
• IV JORNADAS CETA "Teaching English: emotion in motion" April 25-27 2003 Universidad de Córdoba - where is info about this?
• TCC 2003 Eighth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference April 22-24, 2003 "The Student Experience in Online and Hybrid Courses" Web site: http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/ Proposal Deadline: December 16, 2002 THEME. The organizers of this completely online event are especially interested in proposals from college and university faculty, staff, students and administrators that provide an understanding of the student experience in Internet-mediated learning. Submit a proposal that captures your experiences, views, imagination and vision of what is to come in your particular discipline: instruction, learning support, administration, counseling, student services, educational technology, etc. The Webheads presentation was Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 16:00 to 16:50 GMT in the Hibiscus Poster: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tcc2003/proposal.htm; the chat log for that session is here: http://makahiki.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc/2003/conference/chatlogs/stevens.04.22.2003.1600.html; Some archived webcasts are here: http://www.uliveandlearn.com/tcc/ - Matt Wasowski's keynote has been archived at HorizonLive: http://lecture.horizonlive.com/launcher.cgi?channel=wasowski_2003_0423_1859_38
• April 24, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi TACTILE TASKS & TECHNICAL TIPS, organised by the Learner Independence & Teacher Education SIGs of TESOL Arabia -18 Practical Workshops Creative ideas for using visual-tactile tasks and games in the classroom and for the promotion of independent learning. (Including: practical project-based tasks, learning via realia, pictures and toys, new ways with newspapers, learner training, interactive reading activities...) 'Hands-on' computer, CALL and internet sessions at varying competency levels. (Powerpoint, Excel, WORD, making webquests and internet tasks, establishing student email discussion lists, making student home pages...) Bookstalls Attendance Certificates TESOLArabia members - free, non-members, 10DHS Join TESOLArabia/renew your membership on site. Please pre-register if possible. THURSDAY 24 APRIL, 2003, 9 - 12:30 Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi FOR MORE INFORMATION/PRE-REGISTRATION: http://ilearn.20m.com/cgi-bin/framed/1812/tttt.html (times out on Jan 10, 2007); email: tailearn@yahoo.com TEL: Janet Olearski - 02 5085233 FAX: 02 6814230 website: http://ilearn.20m.com The Petroleum Institute is located next to the ADNOC Umm Al Nar Compound, a little before the Maqta Bridge - take the turn for Dubai, go halfway over the flyover and take the sign for Abu Dhabi off the flyover, and you will see PI next to the Umm Al Nar Compound on your right. Go about 200m past it, and you will see the PI sign. Turn in here and immediately turn right.
• At the IATEFL conference in Brighton on Thursday 24th April 2003, ELT Journal is sponsoring a debate about task-based learning. "Tasks are nothing new. They're just exercises with a new name." The speakers will be Martin Bygate, Guy Cook, Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou, and Paula Jullian. Please see our web site http://www.eltj.org for further details. If you will be in Brighton on 24th April between 12.00 and 13.15 then please come along. We are very interested in collecting comments and questions about this area in advance of the debate. If you, or your colleagues or students, have any points you would like to make, or issues you would like to raise for possible discussion on the day, please email them as soon as possible to editor@eltj.org with the subject line <eltj / iatefl debate>. After the event, we will be setting up an on-line discussion through the Oxford teachers club on http://www.oup.com/elt/global/teachersclub/
• Laptop and eLearning Faculty Forum at Abu Dhabi Women's College on Wed 9th April. We expect over 200 faculty from different institutions across UAE to attend and present during the day. Presentations last 30 minutes and you can get an idea of the kinds of things that will be presented by looking at the schedule from November Forum held in DMC. http://laptopforum.ecommerce.hct.ac.ae/index2.html
• CHI2003 Conference http://www.chi2003.org Carolyn Gale and GEN member Sherry Hsi will be offering a one-day tutorial, Enhanced E-Learning Through Learner-Centric Design, at the CHI2003 conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. April 5-10, 2003.
• Working Together: Building a Network for Teacher Development TESOL-SPAIN's 26th Annual Convention Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 4th – 6th April, 2003 http://www.tesol-spain.org/seminar2003/index.html
• TESOL 2003 in Baltimore from March 25-29. The theme is, "Hearing Every Voice". The Call for Proposals can be downloaded from http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2003/pp/index.html. Information on TESOL 2003 CALL Interest Section Special Events (the Internet Fair, the Software Fair, the EV Mini-workshops, the Developers' Showcase) can be found at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~call/ ; On Friday March 28 19:00 GMT or 2 pm to 3 pm in Baltimore Webheads will be participating in a live online webcast: http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/software.htm
• The TESOL 2003 Graduate Student Forum will be held on March 24, 2003, as part of TESOL 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The Forum provides a venue at the TESOL convention that allows M.A.-level students to share the results of their research, their teaching ideas and experiences, and the materials they have developed. http://www.tesol.org/mbr/community/students/gsf1.html
• March 24: Al Ain: International Conference Wrapup More info at http://www.tesolarabia.org/
• SITE 2003--Technology & Teacher Education Conference 24 to 29 March 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - DUE: OCT. 22, 2002 Organized by Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) http://www.aace.org/site and Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) http://www.aace.org http://www.aace.org/conf/site/topics.htm The Conference invites proposals from the introductory through advanced level on all topics related to: (1) the use of information technology in teacher education, and (2) instruction about information technology in * Preservice * Inservice * Graduate Teacher Education * Faculty & Staff Development Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well as describe innovative projects are encouraged. To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link to http://www.aace.org/info.htmIf you have a question about SITE 2003, please e-mail AACE Conference Services: conf@aace.org This announcement distributed via http://www.ConferenceAlerts.com
• 24 to 26 March 2003 TechEd International Conference & Exposition, Ontario Convention Center, Southern California; Website: http://www.techedevents.org, Organized by: TechEd Events/Community College Foundation
• The annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Virginia (not far from Baltimore) March 22-25. The theme for this conference is, "The Diversity of Applied Linguistics" http://www.aaal.org/aaal2003/
• The Institute for the Study of Language and Society and the Translation Studies Subject Group at Aston University are organising a one-day workshop on assessing translation, to be held on Saturday, 22 March 2003. Translation is taught as part of language skills programmes and translation training programmes, at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Teaching translation involves assessing the quality of the translations produced by students and giving a mark for the achievement of the intended goal, whether for language assessment or translation skills. The workshop will focus on the aspect of assessment and marking. The following issues will be addressed: … What is the relationship between assessment strategies and theoretical frameworks for teaching translation? … Which criteria are used for assessing and marking translations in a university programme? … Do these vary according to the purpose of the assessment? … How do these criteria compare to translation quality assurance in the real world? The workshop will bring together academic staff from UK universities involved in teaching translation, representatives from language departments in colleges and schools, professional organisations, and professional translators. We plan to have 4-6 presentations to be followed by general discussions. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact us by phone (0121 359 3611 Ext. 4224), fax (0121 359 6153), or email: isls@aston.ac.uk or C.Schaeffner@aston.ac.uk. The fee, which includes a buffet lunch and refreshments, will be £10.00. For an update on the workshop and other ISLS events please check the ISLS website: http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/isls.html.
• NEALLT will hold its annual conference at Union College in Schenectady, NY, March 21-23. This year's theme is "Project-based approaches to teaching language and culture." The registration form is now available on the NEALLT web site at www.neall.org
• The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT) will hold its annual conference on March 21-23, 2003 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. We are interested in presentations, panels, and discussion about technology integration in teaching languages and cultures, the effect on learning and motivation in student-based projects, and the role of and impact on Lab Directors. Please check the NEALLT website at http://www.neall.org/ for more information
• TESOL Arabia Conference - March 12 - 14 in Dubai - at the Al Bustan. http://www.tesolarabia.org/RedandBlack/index.php
• English for Specific Purposes SIG First Annual Conference - forums for discussion of perspectives, challenges, solutions for teaching ESP - A VERITABLE BRIDGE W2, Women's Campus, University of Sharjah Thursday, 27 February, 10am The deadline for pre-registration is February 22nd. Pre-registration will entitle delegates to conference materials, a conference certificate and refreshments. More info at http://www.tesolarabia.org/; If you would like to present, or attend, and/or receive more information about this event, please contact Mabel Lalou (ESP Sig Chair) eureka@sharjah.ac.ae
• There is a Learner Independence SIG Annual ILC Visit at the Learning Enhancement Center, Zayed University, Dubai on Wed., 26 Feb., 2 - 4pm. Please click the link for more information http://ilearn.20m.com/zudflycirclogo.html (times out on Jan 10, 2007) or see http://www.tesolarabia.org/
• Instant Messaging Planet Spring 2003 Conference & Expo returns to Boston February 24th and 25th at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Sign up by February 7th and save $100. For more information and to register today visit http://www.jupiterevents.com/im/spring03/index.html Instant Messaging Planet Spring 2003 Conference & Expo is the only industry forum that brings together IM experts and professionals in order to exchange ideas, strategies and Instant Messaging success stories. It is also the only focused event that provides an interactive exhibit floor enabling vendors to exhibit their products and solutions to businesses and organizations looking to incorporate IM enterprise solutions into their infrastructure. To view the complete agenda visit http://www.jupiterevents.com/im/spring03/glance.html
• Feb. 24: Al Ain: Multiple Intelligences Applied More info at http://www.tesolarabia.org/
• Feb 22-24 2003 e-ducation Conference 2003 an international three day conference organized by students for students in Abu Dhabi - Sunday the 23 of February at 1:30PM – 2:30 there is an ADM presentation by Dr. Curtis Bonk at HCT Men's College, Abu Dhabi entitled New Roles of Instructors and Students in Blended and Fully Online Learning Environments. Dr. Bonk has an impressive repertoire of e-Learning presentations that can be found at http://www.trainingshare.com/workshop.php; The e-ducation conference held 22nd to 24th of April, 2001 was a real-life project through which students received first hand experience in organizing complex events while learning about a topic of the tip of nearly every educator's tongue - the impact of e-learning on the global educational community http://e-ducation.hct.ac.ae/
• The 2003 IT SIG Conference with the University of Sharjah February 20, 2003 8:00 am to 5:00 pm More info at http://www.tesolarabia.org/
• Ajman & UAQ Chapter of TESOLArabia First Annual Conference - forums on Teaching English for Academic Success to improve transition for our students from school to university, Al Sawdah School, Ajman, UAE Thursday, 20 February, 10am. More info at http://www.tesolarabia.org/
• 6 February 2003 Time: 0930 -1600 Venue: University of Southampton Cost: Stlg 80 (ALT members), stlg 130 (non-members) Booking deadline: 23 January 2003 Overview: This workshop will provide an overview of good practice, tips and hints on getting research and development activities published. For more information on this or other ALT events please email alt@brookes.ac.uk Venue: For a map of the university, including car and train instructions, please visit http://www.soton.ac.uk/~indexes/maps/index.html
• LEARNTEC 2003 in Cooperation with UNESCO is a major European Congress for Educational and Information Technology that draws more than 7,500 participants from all over the world to discuss innovations and applications. LEARNTEC 2003, to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, 4-7 February, covers a wide range of topics in eLearning, eCommerce, language and technology, distance tertiary education and the application of technology-based learning in small and medium-sized enterprises: http://www.Learntec.de
• Bilkent University School of English Language (BUSEL) is holding its 8th annual international conference entitled, "Speaking in the Monolingual Classroom: need for a fresh approach?" on January 23-25, 2003 at the Bilkent Hotel, Ankara http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~busel/pr.htm
• The 23rd Annual Thailand TESOL International Conference ELT 2003: Culture, Content and Competency 23-25 January, 2003 Bangkok, Thailand, http://www.thaitesol.org ; Deadline for submission of proposals : July 31, 2002
• Jan 16-18 2003 TRLD 21st Annual International Conference Technology, Reading and Learning Difficulties Grand Hyatt San Francisco on Union Square, sponsored by Educational Computer Conferences, Inc., and cosponsored by the International Reading Association. http://www.trld.com/
• The SSGRR (Scuola Superiore G Reiss Romoli) Congress Center, Telecom Italia Learning Services, L'Aquila (near Rome), Italy (http://www.ssgrr.it). International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, Medicine, and Mobile Technologies on the Internet WINTER Conference 2003: From Monday January 6 till Sunday January 12. Keynotes: Lyman (Berkeley), Neuhold (Frauhofer), Neal (Tufts Medical School). Capacity of the SSGRR congress center is 200 participants. The list of participants will be closed after 200 papers accepted.

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• Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, New York Dec. 26-30, 2002 Three sessions organized by the Executive Committee of the Division of Applied Linguistics. E-mail 250-word abstract by March 1, 2002 to Cristina Sanz, Chair, Associate Professor Director, Intensive Spanish Program Georgetown University www.georgetown.edu/faculty/sanzc
• December 16-21, 2002 - CETaLL Symposium - The 7th Man and Media Symposium will be held as part of the forthcoming AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics in Singapore. The theme will be: “Online Learning Environments - Globalisation vs. Individualisation”; http://www.aila2002.org (times out on Jan 10, 2007)
• The Fourth Electronic Oasis (EO) organized by the Education Technology Special Interest Group of EgypTesol is to be held during the upcoming EgypTesol Conference (December 13-15 2002) at Sheraton Heliopolis http://www.egyptesol.org The Electronic Oasis December 2002, is inviting proposals for workshops and demos. The EO2002 has been structured this year to provide TEFL educators with hands-on training through workshops on using technology to enhance their performance at the workplace.For more information, e-mail eo2002@link.net
• International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002) 3-6 December 2002 Auckland, New Zealand http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz Organised by AACE-APC and Sponsored by College of Business, Massey University, New Zealand . The International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) series aims to foster the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in education throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Conference theme "Learning communities on the Internet - Pedagogy in implementation"
• The ELT online conference will be held 23 & 24 November; http://www.eltoc.com. In May or so we'll be inviting presentation proposals. In the meantime you can visit that site for general information about what the ELToc is, and you can also view the archives of last year's (for a fee...) http://www.netlearnlanguages.com - Our website with info on our online courses held by Internet conferencing. http://www.netlearnlanguages.com/teachers - info on some of the workshops & seminars we run, both online and face-to-face in London
• Friday 23 November 2002 One Day Seminar at London Guildhall University on How to produce and integrate audio material for language learning on the web, by D.r Dominique Hemard and Steve Cushion. http://www.lgu.ac.uk/langstud/seminar.htm
• ACTFL 2002 will be in Salt Lake City, 21-24 November 2002. Presenters must pay ACTFL speaker registration fees ($125), but ACTFL does not require CALICO members to pay ACTFL membership dues.
• ASIST 2002 Knowledge, connections, and community Nov 18-21, Philadelphia http://www.asis.org/am02cfp.html
• eLearn Accredit online conference, Free of charge, http://www.elearnaccredit.org, 1-30 November 2002 , billed as "the first step in what we hope will be a cycle of online and physical conferences, exploring whether a single, worldwide quality marque for online learning will be possible. It is our contention that such a quality marque would be useful for students, even if what lay behind it was different in different educational sectors, and perhaps even in different geographical areas. It is important to make it clear that we are not intending to be an accreditation body, but rather that we are bringing different bodies involved in quality assurance for online learning (whether as accreditation systems, as providers, or as learners), to pool ideas on the best ways of doing things, and to explore whether a consensus might be possible on future directions. We are providing a neutral discussion forum to explore issues, not to promote a particular solution. I should also add that we are focussing on quality assurance for the delivery of online learning, not on international equivalences for qualifications. The online conference will be staged in different discussion strands - including Higher Education, Professional Development, Schools, and so on - over 4 weeks during November 2002. The first week will consider the current position (where we are now). Week Two will consider possible future positions (where we would like to get to). Week Three will then consider how we get to that possible future position, and Week Four will consider who might carry this out. At the end of each week, a summary paper from each discussion strand will be shared across all the participants in all the strands.
• International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education tohe@ipfw.edu "Expanding the Frontiers of Online Learning" November 12-14, 2002 Preconference Web Site: http://www.ipfw.edu/as/2002tohe/
• At the Eleventh International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching/ The Fourth Pan Asian Conference November 8-10, in Taipei, Session T. Yeh, Aiden C.( #33865;#20336;#36066;), NS and NNS Teachers of English: Managing the Human Factor (Workshop) - Time: Session T meets from 1:10 – ?2:10 pm (5 am GMT) Here are some links to the conference site. http://www.eta.org.tw/eng_news/pac4_web2/downloadfiles/Conference%20Schedule3.htm http://www.eta.org.tw/eng_news/pac4_web2/p01-bac.htm Aiden Yeh. Aiden's meeting with Webheads online November 10 didn't come off. However she tried using mobile technology. Aiden discovered that the conference venue provides no Internet connection; hence she has to resort to trickery; her solution (as of Nov 6): "I bought a new mobile, Ericson T68 GPRS at a reasonable price. No wires, no outside lines needed. It works like a PDA hotsync system. I haven't tried it yet. But I will, tonight, after downloading a software from Ericson's website and I will let you all know whether mobile GPRS can really provide laptop computers an internet connection (keeping fingers crossed)." Sus writes: you made me extremely curious with your new gadget! I've been checking out the Ericsson homepage, and I am impressed - especially I just adore the sweet convincing flash demo of the features (I just tried to backtrack the URL but in vain - the http://www.sonyericsson.com homepage is so very compex and deeply loaded with hidden links.) Aiden replied: My Ericson T68 WAP is working. However, it is a bit slow. The GPRS mode for my phone is also working BUT somehow, the Ericson GPRS software won't set up properly. We called Ericson Taiwan for assistance, and we found out that Ericson's GPRS does not perform well with Microsoft XP. I'm using Windows XP!
• 1st University City Partnership Network Conference was held in Sharjah 3 November http://www.ucpn.ae
• The Learner Independence SIG of TESOL Arabia is organising an ILC Coordinators' Forum at Stafford Associates, Dubai, on 23 October from 13:30 - 15:30. The aim of this Forum is to provide ILC Coordinators from the various institutions in the UAE with the opportunity to discuss (formally and informally) common concerns and exchange ideas, experiences, solutions and advice about IL/ILC issues relating to the UAE situation. It is hoped that each participant will submit at least one issue for discussion. In breakout groups, participants may brainstorm a selection of the issues and then share their findings and suggestions with the whole group and invite further input. This feedback will then be collated and circulated amongst participants. Selected topics may also be posted on the ilearn discussion list (http://topica.com/lists/ilearn) or on the TESOL Arabia Learner Independence SIG website: http://ilearn.20m.com
• Kenji and Kathleen Kitao have posted information about the conference hosted on October 26 by Kyoto JALT. http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/organi/kyoto/Conference/report/
• Pop!Tech - Artificial Worlds - Camden, Maine, 18-20 October 2002 http://www.poptech.org/
• TESOL is holding an online academy from September 30 to October 27, 2002, http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/academies.html, edprograms@tesol.org. Workshops include An Introduction to Teaching Online for ESOL Professionals (W-1) Emily Lites - This workshop will show ESOL professionals how to create dynamic, Web-based courses and teach on-line. We will begin by discussing general considerations in teaching on-line and explore various on-line learning environments and tools for language learning. Then we will extend this basic information with a hands-on approach to creating an on-line module to be put into a virtual classroom environment. Using materials you have for one of your current classes, you will learn how to create your own on-line module. Enhancing your Adult Education Classroom with the Internet (W-2) Susan Gaer - This online workshop will show your how to use authentic Internet sites to create effective lessons for your classroom. You will examine various sites and learn how to apply different techniques to your instruction with or without access to computers in the classroom. You will learn how to use the Internet from your home to enhance your instruction in the classroom. The workshop will consist of discussion, individual exploration, and one group project. Teaching Writing Online (W-3) Christine Bauer-Ramazani - This online workshop takes a hands-on approach to teaching writing electronically. You will learn about the uses of computer technology in teaching writing by actually trying out various tools and approaches. You will learn how to incorporate computers into teaching writing, by exploring options that go beyond word-processing. You will work through several tasks that will give you firsthand experience with the teaching of writing in an online environment and will allow you to share your experience with other members via a threaded discussion, in chats, and in email exchanges.
• Internet Research 3.0: NET / WORK / THEORY International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) International Institute of INFONOMICS and University of Maastricht Maastricht, The Netherlands October 13-16 2002 Conference Website: http://www.aoir.org/2002
• Gitex 2002 Conferences, Dubai /UAE, October 12-17, 2002 http://www.datamatix-dubai.com
• The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning conference - Version 2.0: Foreign Language Collaborations on the Web - at the University of Pennsylvania, October 11-13, 2002. Building upon the considerable progress made in introducing computer technology into the foreign language curriculum, this conference seeks to examine the different collaborations - among institutions, faculty, teaching assistants, information technology services, and undergraduate students - that can promote successful use of the World Wide Web in foreign language teaching and learning. Registration information and a preliminary program can be obtained from: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/consortium2002.
• Community Networking, Montreal, 7-13 October 2002 http://www.communautique.qc.ca/cmic-wfcn/
• Symposium on the Digital Divide (Oct. 3-5, Ausberg, Germany, and online) http://www.capurro.de/augsburg2.htm
• CVE 2002 Collaborative Virtual Environments Sept 30-Oct 4, Bonn http://www.cve2002.org/cfp.html
• VoiceXML Planet Fall 2002 Conference & Expo is coming to Boston September 26th & 27th, billed as a "premier VoiceXML event for business and technology leaders who are looking for strategic, technical and market opportunities in the emerging interactive voice applications and services market. Sign up by September 4th and save $100!" uh huh .... For more information and to register today visit http://www.intmediaevents.com/vxml/fall02/index.html
• Environmental Communication in the Information Society conference (Sept. 26-27, Vienna) http://enviroinfo.isep.at/
• MobiCom 2002 (run by the ACM) International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Sept 23-24, Atlanta, Georgia http://www1.acm.org/sigs/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/
• The 2002 FAAPI CONFERENCE will be held in Córdoba, Argentina from September 19 to 21, 2002. It gives us great pleasure to invite you to attend the "CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: MANAGING THE CHANGE" Conference, which aims to provide a forum for comparing experiences and sharing ideas of interest in the fields of EFL methodology, curriculum development and technology applied to EFL instruction. The Conference will provide an opportunity to consider what has been achieved and what new directions are available on issues such as: - EFL Methodology - Schools curricula at various levels - Teacher Education curricula - ESP curricula - International examinations curricula - Bilingual education curricula - Literature and culture in the EFL curriculum - The place of technology in the EFL curriculum Renowned specialists in ELT will be giving plenary talks, leading workshops and delivering papers. For further information, please contact the Conference Office: 2002 FAAPI Conference c/o Lic. Ma. Nieves Díaz Carballo Av. Colón 951 5000 Córdoba / Argentina Telefax 0351 - 427 0022 faapi2002@hotmail.com
• During September 19-21, the Swiss Sociological Association, Research Committee "Interpretive Sociology" and the European Sociological Association ESA, Research Network "Qualitative Methods" with participation of the RN "Sociology of Arts" are organizing a Conference on "Ethnographic Organizational Studies". Location: University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; Conference Language: English. For additional information see http://www.sfs.unisg.ch/org/sfs/web.nsf/wwwPubInhalteGer/Aktuelles?opendoc
• ICALT 2002 (run by the IEEE) International Conference on Advanced Learning Techniques September 16-19, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2002
• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2002) September 9-12, 2002 Kazan, Russia Sponsored by IEEE Learning Technology Task Force, IEEE Computer Society, Kazan State Technological University, Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Republic - Conference theme "Advanced Learning Technologies: Media and the Culture of Learning" ICALT-2002 invites submissions with a good theoretical base or formalism and vital inspiration that present new, yet unpublished, solid achievements based on experimental and/or theoretical evidences that come to answer concretely one or more of the questions above or can point to possible answers. Survey papers are also accepted, if they are well documented. Submissions are invited in following categories: Papers - Panels - Tutorials - Workshops. Details of submission procedure are available at: http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2002/ ** Important dates: Friday 05 April 2002: Paper submission
• During September 5-6, the 8th Qualitative Methods Conference: "Something for Nothing--Subjectivity and society in the new economy" takes place in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Please note that also a virtual conference is organized from May 1 to September 30. For additional information see http://www.criticalmethods.org/
• September 8-9, 2002 - e-Merging e-Learning Conference at Higher Colleges of Technology Men's College, Abu Dhabi, UAE, http://www.admc.hct.ac.ae/admcinternet/eeconference/ee2002/Program.asp
• Humanism in Language Teaching conference (Italy, August 28-31, 2002) http://www.lend.it/portonovo2002/
• September 8, 2002, ADM Conference at Higher Colleges of Technology Men's College, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• The Faculty of Informatics and Communication at Central Queensland University will be hosting the ITiRA 2002 Conference at CQU Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 27 - 29 August 2002 (preliminary details can be found at: http://itira.cqu.edu.au ). The overall purpose of the Conference is to examine strategies, research and applications for the introduction and use of Information Technology in Regional Areas. . "Expressions of Interest" (abstracts) for the presentation of Case Studies or Posters will be accepted until 10 May 2002, accepted case studies will be notified by 24 May and completed case study papers due 5 July.
• Net Working 2002, http://flexiblelearning.net.au/nw2002/, is 19-30 August, 2002. From the site: "Through featured online events and interactive workshops, you will experience the latest techniques, learn how to do it online and share it with your colleagues." Webheads are participating: http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/ccc/pres.htm
• The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University and the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (ILO) of the Universiteit van Amsterdam are jointly presenting the course "Effective Use of the Internet in Language Teaching: What & How", to be held in Amsterdam from 19 until 23 August 2002. In this intensive course participants will acquire specific knowledge about Internet applications and resources relevant for foreign language teaching. It will help them create language materials that they can use in their classroom practice. This course is intended for newly qualified and practising foreign language teachers interested in the possibilities of the Internet for their classroom practice. There must be a web address for this one (you would think) but the only contact I have is manon@amsu.edu Manon Braat Course co-ordinator
• Tenth International CALL Conference "CALL Professionals and the Future of CALL Research" Antwerp, 18-20 August 2002. Proposals deadline January 7th 2002! Combine Eurocall 2002 with CALL 2002. http://www.didascalia.be or http://dida-www.uia.ac.be/didascalia/pedagora/call_conference.htm.
• EUROCALL 2002 at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, will be held 14-17 August 2002; Theme: Networked Language Learning - a Link Missing?- follow the progress of preparations or register at http://www.solki.jyu.fi/eurocall2002/. . Please register early to avoid disappointment! The cheaper 'early bird' fee applies until 31st May. NB. Individual members of affiliated organisations may register at the EUROCALL members' rate. Conference organisers will verify membership with the organisations concerned. On 14 Aug there will be a preconference workshop of the Special Interest Group in Language Processing http://siglp.eurocall.org. The nlp in call workshop is one of the eurocall2002 pre-conference workshops; details about the workshop can be found at: http://www.solki.jyu.fi/eurocall2002/workandsem.htm.
• 18th Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, from August 14-16, 2002, and the special distance learning roundtable meeting for international organizations, on August 16th, that coincides with this conference offers more than 140 sessions, including workshops, seminars, e-learning course and software showcases, forums and presentations covering distance learning trends, emerging technology and online learning & teaching methods. Last year, there were about a dozen participants from international organisations who attended both the conference and the roundtable meeting. While the conference focuses primarily on teaching and learning in university-based distance education and e-learning, the presentations and discussions were informative and stimulating, and the networking value was great for those of us interested in distance learning, and especially in e-learning. For additional conference program, lodging and registration information, please go to the conference website at: www.uwex.edu/disted/conference.
• TEFL-CHINA will hold its 1st Annual International Conference at the English Coaching Paper Office in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, P.R. of China. The Conference will take place on August 12--15 2002. The theme for this year's conference is "Chinese TEFL Reform in the New Century". Details were sent in an attached Word document which I deleted unopened. The email was sent from zhuhua0926@163.com.
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTING ON THE WEB July 29-August 2, 2002 San Diego State University's Language Acquisition Resource Center's Topics in Foreign Language Testing on the Web summer institute will survey around forty authoring tools which may be used to create online tests to determine competencies in reading, writing, listening and speaking in foreign languages. Items reviewed will include a gamut of test development tools and systems, from those which are quite easy to use (and inexpensive or free) and best suited for drills and quizzes, to fully developed and supported comprehensive testing systems suitable for gathering data for program evaluation, certification, and a host of other special purposes. There will be hands-on experience with several of the test authoring tools. Workshop participants will select one to match their testing needs, and will write and develop a test that uses a variety of digital multimedia test items in the target language. To register: go to http://larcnet.sdsu.edu and click on "Special Events"; scroll down the page to "Register for 2002 Summer Institutes Online."
• InterSymp'2002 International Conference on System Research, Informatics and Cybernetics July 29 - Aug 3, Baden-Baden http://www.iias.edu/frameset_start_inters_ann.html
• 2nd Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning http://www.mweb.co.za/learning/colforum/ Mon 29 July 2002 - Fri 2 August 2002 Durban, South Africa
• Education Technology 2002 Wed 24 July 2002 - Fri 26 July 2002 Arlington, Virginia; For more information, http://www.salt.org
• MULTIMEDIA LITERACY AND WEB-BASED READING July 22-July 26, 2002 San Diego State University's Language Acquisition Resource Center's Multimedia Literacy and Web-based Reading summer institute will teach you specific authoring systems that are best suited for the task of reading certain texts at certain levels of proficiency with the digital annotations that you want to include. Web-based reading processes, electronic annotation of authentic foreign language text, and research in student interaction and responses to text, are but a few of the topics of this summer institute. It is geared to meet the needs of teachers and researchers alike, in commonly and less commonly taught languages. To register: go to http://larcnet.sdsu.edu and click on "Special Events"; scroll down the page to "Register for 2002 Summer Institutes Online."
• July 15-19, 2002 - The English Language Institute at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, has sessions on using technology in language teaching. Information is available at http://osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/ttraining.html
• DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVE. July 15-July 19, 2002 San Diego State University's Language Acquisition Resource Center's Digital Media Archive summer institute is designed for language teachers. Enrollees will be shown how to find multimedia materials they need, how to integrate them in lesson plans, and will get an intensive course of instruction in creating audio and video materials for language instruction. Participants in this summer institute will learn how to create their own authentic language materials from concept through instructional design to flow-charting and multimedia component development. Following some online editing and compression of digital media, each participant will build their own interactive language web page with these components. To register: go to http://larcnet.sdsu.edu and click on "Special Events"; scroll down the page to "Register for 2002 Summer Institutes Online."
• Incubation2 (run by TrAce) new media and writing July 15-16, Nottingham http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/cfp/call.htm
• Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (12-15 July 2002, Quebec, Canada) http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/
• CASTEL/J 2002 Computer-Assisted System for Teaching and Learning Japanese Third International Conference July 11 - 14, 2002 Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA - CASTEL/J 2002 is an international conference serving as a forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and application on all topics related to computer-assisted systems, multimedia/hypermedia, WWW/Internet, distance education, and electronic database for teaching and learning Japanese. Please submit your proposal to: Y.-H. Tohsaku, Program Chair, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0519, La Jolla, CA 92093-0519 USA - E-mail: ytohsaku@ucsd.edu. Call for Participation Deadline: August 31, 2001
• The Royal Academy of Valencian Culture (RACV), together with the Valencian Language Writer's Association (AELLVA) is arranging the International Seminar on Lesser Used Languages (SILM) to be hold in Valencia City (Spain) next July 11th to 12th. This first edition of the Seminar will be devoted to Lesser Used Languages in the European Union. Visit the SILM's web site for details http://silm_racv.eresmas.com/silm_home.htm
• WRITING 02: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Special Interest Group Writing 8th International Conference Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom July 10-13, 2002 http://www.staffs.ac.uk/writing02. Submissions were invited in the following areas: Cognitive processes in writing, The development of writing processes, The social contexts of writing, Motivational and emotional factors in writing, New methods and approaches to writing research, Writing to learn; creative writing; therapeutic writing, Collaborative and computer-based writing, The teaching of writing in different contexts, Analysis of text and text quality
• 4th July 2002 University of the West of England, Bristol An LTSN Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies event - Web-based learning and teaching resources have proliferated in recent years. This event will demonstrate various uses of the web for the teaching and learning of linguistics, discuss some of the issues surrounding the use of the web and give participants the chance to explore for themselves web-based linguistics teaching and learning resources. This event is free of charge Programme 09:30 - 10:00 Coffee and registration 10:00 - 10.45 Networked Learning: Issues and Perspectives from one Institution Spencer Jordan, UWE 10:45 - 11:30 Web-based exercises for Linguistics level one Carmen Arnáiz, Raymond Gallery, Frank Maddix, George Mann, Jane Saville, Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Irene Wilkie, UWE 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee 11:45 - 12:30 Web enhanced approaches to linguistic variation in French Nicole McBride, University of North London 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 14:15 The British National Corpus Lou Burnard, Oxford University 14:15 - 15:00 Phonology for Listening on the Web Richard Cauldwell, Speechinaction and formerly of the University of Birmingham 15:00 - 15:15 Coffee 15:15 - 16:30 "Hands on" session exploring web based resources 16:30 Close Register online at: http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/events/linguwe.html For more information email: j.bartle@hull.ac.uk or tel: 01482 466175
• Neighborhood Networks 2002: Accessing Success https://conference.aspensys.com/confrtaw/ntlindex.html Wed 26 June 2002 - Fri 28 June 2002 Miami, Florida
• The Department of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universidad de Oriente announces the 2nd. International Conference on Language and Culture of the Caribbean. This will be held at the Universidad de Oriente and Melia Santiago Hotel, from June 24th to 27th, 2002 in Santiago de Cuba. The aim of CILCCA 2002 is to facilitate the sharing of resources, ideas, and information about all aspects of the teaching of Caribbean languages and the language-culture interrelation in the process of foreign language teaching through papers and demonstrations on such topics as: 1. The teaching of English, French, and Spanish as foreign languages 2. Computer Assisted Language Learning -Software for language learning -Use of multimedia technology in language teaching 3. Studies on languages of the Caribbean 4. Studies on the culture of Caribbean countries -Culture and its relation to language teaching -The teaching of languages’ cultural systems 5. Creole -Presence and importance of Creole for communication in Caribbean countries -Creole in Haiti. Conference Registration forms and detailed information can be obtained from: Prof. Humberto J. San Pedro Soto Executive secretary of the Organizing Committee Department of Foreign Languages University de Oriente Ave. de las Américas s/n Santiago from Cuba 9, 90900 Telephones: (53-226) 691130, (53-226) 632004, (53-226) 642019 ext. 279 Fax: (53-226) 32689 E-mail: sanpedro@hjss.uo.edu.cu; http://www.uo.edu.cu/eventos/CILCCA2002/CILCCA2002.html
• EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON MOBILE AND CONTEXTUAL LEARNING. June 20th and 21st, University of Birmingham, UK in collaboration with the European M-Learning Forum. The workshop is for researchers and practitioners in industry and education with an interest in developing new approaches to mobile and contextual learning. This includes the design of new technology and software for mobile >learning, as well as research and development in technology-supported informal and lifelong learning. A central aim of the workshop is to broaden the horizons of mobile learning, to explore possibilities for experiential learning, personal learning projects, on the job learning, and just-in-time learning. It will also provide a showcase for new learning technologies and solutions, including wearable learning devices, learning organisers, and multimedia content delivery to handheld devices. The University of Birmingham is a pioneer of research into mobile learning and wearable technology (see http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/handler and http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/wear-it). The workshop venue is equipped with an IEEE 80211b wireless LAN system, multimedia presentation, and ISDN and IP videoconferencing facilities. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: >Design and implementation of mobile technology for learning >Delivery of learning materials to handheld devices >Theory and practice of anytime, anywhere learning >Content management for mobile learning >Learning organisers and personal learning assistants (PLAs) >Wearable, embedded and ubiquitous learning >Evaluation of mobile learning systems. .
• INET 2002 (run by ISOC) Where technology and policy intersect June 18-21, Washington http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/02/call.shtml
• National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) will be held in San Antonio, Texas June 17-19, 2002. Even if you're unable to attend the NECC conference in person, you can participate in the pre-conference activities and in preparing questions for the panel. The GEN and NECC sessions will be led by a panel of leading online educators with extensive experience in synchronous "written conversations" and asynchronous conferencing as vital components of graduate level teaching. Each of the presenters will invite participants to visit their teaching and learning spaces, examine teaching tools, or review course projects and activities. NECC Conference: http://confreg.uoregon.edu/necc2002 Further information regarding the conference: http://www.interlearn.org/
• Virtual Communities (run by Infonortics) share best practices June 17-18, London http://www.infonortics.com/vc/vc2002/vc02-announce.html
• Access and Beyond: Advancing a Community Technology Agenda 11th Annual CTCNet Conference June 14-16, 2002 Hyatt Regency Hotel on Town Lake Austin, Texas Full details now available at www.ctcnet.org. CTCNet is a national network of over 600 Community Technology Centers offering resources to enhance each affiliated center’s capacity to provide technology access and education to its constituency and to help nurture other like-minded programs in its area.
• Language in Use and Language in the Classroom (Limerick, Ireland, 14-15 June 2002) (Sponsored by The First Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies group) http://www.mic.ul.ie/ivacs/ Xenu Link Sleuth reports 504 Timeout waiting for Gateway July 26, 2002
• The Nineteenth Conference on English Teaching & Learning in the Republic of China, June 8, 2002 Shi-Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Conference Theme: Trends of English Language Teaching in the Information Age. To submit proposals by the November 29, 2001 deadline. Please contact Prof. Peng-hsiang Chen, or Prof. Yi-ju Chen The Nineteenth Conference on English Teaching and Learning in the ROC Department of English, Shih-Hsin University Address: 1 Lane 17, Mu-cha Road, Sec. 1, Taipei 116 TEL: (02)2236-8225 ext. 731/732/734 FAX: (02)2236-7159 E-mail: dteng@cc.shu.edu.tw or yjchen@cc.shu.edu.tw
• 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS'02) Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology Raleigh, North Carolina, USA June 6-8, 2002 The goal of ISTAS'02 is to bring together Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals, computer science and engineering educators, teachers and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, policymakers, students, and ICT users for the purpose of establishing critical dialogue on the social and ethical dimensions of ICT. Call For Papers: Submit a one page abstract for a paper, or a proposal for a paper session or panel discussion to the Conference Chair (email preferred): Joseph R. Herkert Division of Multidisciplinary Studies Box 7107, North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7107 voice: 919-515-7993 fax: 919-515-1828 email: joe_herkert@ncsu.edu
• International Conference on Bilingual Education in Central Europe - Challenges and Perspectives in Vienna, Austria 6-7 June 2002 - For further information please contact: Stuart Simpson, D.A. Co-ordinator for bilingual and international projects Europa Büro Stadtschulrat für Wien Auerspergstr. 15/22 A-1080 Vienna Austria Tel.: +43 1 52525-77084 Fax: +43 1 403 44 27 E-mail: stuart.simpson@ssr-wien.gv.at or the co-organizer: Anton Prochazka PIB-Wien/IFU Grenzackerstr. 18 A-1100 Vienna Austria Tel.: +43 1 60118-4350 Fax: +43 1 60118-4500 E-mail: ifu@pib-wien.ac.at Please register early to avoid disappointment (by 24 May at the latest).
• On-line Academy (May 13 - June 10, 2002) TESOL is piloting an on-line academy consisting of three on-line workshops, one of which will use a "blended learning" approach to adult learning if participants choose to attend a companion workshop as part of the Southwest Academy in Denver (July 12-14, 2002). * An Introduction to Teaching On-line for ESOL Professionals (Emily Lites, Workshop Leader) * Enhancing your Adult Education Classroom with the Internet (Susan Gaer, Workshop Leader) * Teaching Writing On-line (Christine Bauer-Ramazani, Workshop Leader) To learn more about the On-line Academy, visit: http://www.tesol.org/edprg/olw/academies.html
• Symposium on Educational Conferencing, Banff, Near Calgary, 30 May - 1 June 2002, including DIVERSE 2002, the second international conference on video and videoconferencing. The outline programme and call for papers is now online: http://cde.athabascau.ca/banff2002/ As well as considering technical and pedagogical issues concerning CMC and videoconferencing, the symposium will explore the growing synergies between video streaming, videoconferencing, audioconferencing and CMC. The venue is the Banff Centre in the Rocky Mountains. A regional ICDE conference in Calgary immediately precedes the Symposium
• English as a Foreign Language: Towards Better Inter-Cultural Communication The ESP Centre University of Damascus Syria In co-operation with the Ministry of Education, The British Council & The American Cultural Centre 28- 30 May 2002 Contact Atiyah Swaydan ESP Centre University of Damascus Mezzeh Autostrad Damascus - Syria Tel: (+963 11) 212 0321 Fax: (+963 11) 212 0164 E-mail: esp-damasuniv@mail.sy
• Thames Valley University is offering a series of one-day INSET courses in ICT/MFL. Each course will cover the following topics: 1. Whole-class teaching with a computer 2. Finding and exploiting MFL resources on the Web 3. Introduction to multimedia CALL 4. Presentation/evaluation of selected MFL CD-ROMs The remaining courses will take place on the following dates at TVU's Slough Campus: Wednesday 22 May 2002 Wednesday 19 June 2002 For further details contact: lcm2short@tvu.ac.uk. See the website at: http://www.tvu.ac.uk/lcm2short/factsheets/inset.html
• 5th IASTED International Conference Computers and Advanced Technology in Education ~ CATE 2002 ~ May 20-22, 2002 Cancun, Mexico http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/cancun/cate.htm Sponsors: The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) · Technical Committee on Education In Cooperation With: The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd)
• 7th Annual International Conference, JALTCALL2002: Local Decisions, Global Effects, to be held at Hiroshima Jogakuin University, 4 -13 -1 Ushita-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima, Japan, 732-0063 on 18 - 19 May, 2002 (with special events on May 17 and 20) http://jaltcall.org/conferences/call2002/; Reviews: JALTCALL 2002 Acclaimed as Most Successful Yet http://www.ESLminiconf.net/june/story3.html Timothy Gutierrez, conference chair for JALT CALL 2002, held last week in Hiroshima, JAPAN, gives an overview of an amazing event and Hot Potatoes and Other Tools for Sound & Video . http://www.ESLminiconf.net/june/story7.html Chris Elvin, of St. Dominic's in Kanagawa, JAPAN, reports on a presentation he made at the recent JALT CALL 2002 conference. Includes links to slides.JALTCALL was held in Hiroshima, Japan from May 17 to 19. It is an academic conference which has many CALL related presentations in Japan. Kenji and Kathleen Kitao have written a report here: http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/library/report/JALTCALL02.htm
• Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change DIAC-02 Symposium; Seattle, Washington USA. May 16-19, 2002 http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02
• The Conference on Computers and Writing eighteenth annual conference, May 16-19, 2002. Hosted by Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, the conference theme is "Teaching and Learning in Virtual Spaces." Please submit proposals via the online application located at the conference website: http://www.lilt.ilstu.edu/english/cw2002/ .
• DIAC-02 (run by the CPSR) Shaping the Network Society - patterns for participation, action and change May 16-19, Seattle http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02
• May 16-18, 2002 - 16th TESL Canada Conference, "Catch the Dream," Delta Hotel and Conference Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan, http://www.scenes.sk.ca and http://www.tesl.ca
• EdTech2002: The Third Annual Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference at Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland on 16th and 17th May 2002; http://staffweb.itsligo.ie/staff/bmulligan/EdTech2002/
• May 12-13, 2002: the CIT of the UAE University is holding a two-day symposium on e-learning in Dubai: http://els.uaeu.ac.ae/ Xenu Link Sleuth reports 502 Error response received from gateway July 26, 2002
• The 6th Annual Current Trends in English Language Testing Conference takes place from 8-9 May 2002 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Dubai, hosted by the Higher Colleges of Technology - Dubai Men’s College and Zayed University. Non-TESOL Arabia members pay a nominal fee of AED30 per day for the conference. The theme is “Assessment on the Move.” Keynote speakers include Fred Davidson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA & newly-elected President of International Language Testing Association), James Purpura (Columbia University Teacher’s College, USA), Barry O’Sullivan (University of Reading, UK) and Ali Raddaoui (United Arab Emirates University, UAE). The goals are to bring together testing specialists and teachers from different institutions to share findings and information that have important implications for the region. Secondly, the conference will provide a forum for current research on language teaching and testing. Third, delegates will have an arena for discussion and debate on important issues in English language testing theory, practice and research. There is a two-day Pre-Conference Academy (PCA) on online course delivery and assessment being offered from May 6-7. The cost for this PCA is AED2,000 which includes all lectures, course materials and meals. David Braswell, founder and president of TeachMaster Technologies, Inc. and Bob Thornborough Bob, president of The Learning Management Corporation are two of the world-renowned speakers who will conduct the PCA. For more information or to register, contact the Conference Chair Christine Coombe at christine.coombe@hct.ac.ae. Live feed http://dbm.hct.ac.ae/public/events/01_02/ctelt2002/index.html
• Networked Learning in a Global Environment virtual education May 1-4, Berlin http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/nl2002
• No Strings Attached http://www.cwru.edu/nostringsattached A National and Virtual Conference and Showcase on the Application of Wireless Technology and Personal Digital Assistants in Higher Education. May 1-2, 2002 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio - No Strings Attached is dedicated to an exploration and the application of wireless technology and personal digital assistants (PDA) in higher education. Proceedings, panels, and keynote addresses from No Strings Attached will be streamed over the Internet. See conference website at http://www.cwru.edu/nostringsattached On May 2nd at 2 pm EST, a national satellite and webcast of the award-winning Ready2Net broadcast will originate from the No Strings Attached conference. Ready2Net (http://www.csumb.edu/ready2net) is a joint collaboration of CSU Monterey Bay, Case Western Reserve University and The Campus Computing Project.
• A Workshop on Designing and Visualizing CMC \ CHI 2002, will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota - Monday, April 21, 2002 - Organizers: Tom Erickson, Susan Herring, Warren Sack - http://www.acm.org/chi2002/
• eWork in a Global World (April 16-17, Brussels) http://www.emergence.nu/events/wwwe.html
• April 9-13, 2002 - TESOL 2002: Language and the Human Spirit, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The Call for Participation for TESOL 2002 appears in the December issue of TESOL Matters, and will be available on-site in St. Louis from the TESOL 2002 Booth. The deadline for papers, colloquia, workshops, and demonstrations is May 1, 2001. http://www.tesol.org/. Information on Electronic Village Events Developers Showcase, Software Fair, and Internet Faire at the TESOL CALL-IS Website: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~call/. You can visit http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2002/pp/program/call1_1.html to view the EV's preliminary program.
• The Moroccan Association of Teachers of English (MATE) XXII Annual Conference Mdiq (north of Morocco near Tangier), April 8-12 2002 Theme: Enhancing Language Education Quality through Evaluation and IT: http://www.mate.org.ma
• The Higher Colleges of Technology and the International Vocational Education and Training Association will be holding an international conference under the heading of "Bridging the Divide : Strategies for Change" from 7 to 9 April, 2002 in one of the world's most rapidly developing cities and country, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. This is the third international conference to focus on aspects of the role of technological education in national development (TEND 2002). The Keynote speaker for the conference is Mark David Milliron, President and CEO, League for Innovation in the Community College. Dr. Shirley Waterhouse, Director of Educational Technology, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will deliver the theme address. For more information visit the IVETA - TEND 2002 website. http://crm.hct.ac.ae/tend2002 - The site points out that this conference is postponed to 2003
• BLACKBOARD: Building a Community of Learners - Friday, April 5 - Saturday, April 6, 2002 St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 Conference Discussion Topics/Presentation Tracks * Critical reflections on Blackboard * The impact of Blackboard on Student Learning * Ethics and the use of Blackboard * Distance Learning * Issues of intellectual property * Blackboard as a tool for enriching student interaction * Avoiding technical pitfalls * Tips and tricks * Creating community with portals * Issues for campus Blackboard administrators * Student perspectives * Hands on training in advanced uses of Blackboard * funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the St. Lawrence University Technology for Teaching Project and is also sponsored by the St. Lawrence University Center for Teaching and Learning, * No registration fee * Open to college and university faculty, students, and staff members * Individual and team presentations, roundtables, and hands on training * Meals provided on campus by St. Lawrence University (dinner Friday and breakfast and lunch Saturday) * Undergraduate and graduate student participation encouraged * Housing costs covered for student presenters * Team presentations encouraged. Visit the conference website and register online at http://it.stlawu.edu/~blackboard. Please send requests for additional conference information to bb@stlawu.edu or Rita Goldberg, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617. Phone: (315) 229-5156.
• The University of Technology of Compiegne is organising its 4th conference on the Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching (UNTELE 2002) 28-30 March 2002 with its main theme: - The criteria used in creating computer-mediated language learning tasks. Does the tool shape our conception of task creation, or does the tool bring indispensable solutions to pedagogical needs? Do these tools correspond to the needs of language teachers? Does the tool enhance language learning? What is the state of research in this field? What are the pedagogical practices? For further details please consult the web site http://www.utc.fr/~untele
• CALICO 2002 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM Creating Virtual Language Learning Communities Hosted by University of California, Davis in Davis, California March 26 - March 30, 2002 Preconference Workshops: Tuesday, March 26 - Wednesday, March 27 Courseware Showcase: Thursday, March 28 (tentative) Presentation Sessions: Thursday, March 28 - Saturday, March 30 - Topics include new technologies, innovative software, research projects, or new uses for old software - http://calico.org/CALICO02
• InSTIL 2002 Symposium http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil Speech Technology in the Learning and Assistive Interface, venue has been changed to UC Davis, California on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th March 2002. InSTIL is a Special Interest Group of CALICO, EUROCALL and ISCA and an affiliate of IALLT InSTIL 2002 Symposium, and topics will include speech recognition, synthesis, analysis, manipulation, visualization, animation, talking heads, work related to any area of Speech Therapy which impacts on Education and Learning, etc. Features the first presentation on American soil of the poster exhibition entitled "An Illustrated History of Speech Technology in Language Learning".
• 36th International IATEFL Conference & Exhibition Conference , 23-27 March 2002, at the University of York, England - http://www.iatefl.org/frameset/frame.asp?../conference.asp~mainFrame . Plenary Sessions given by Leni Dam, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Peter Skehan, Martha Pennington and B. Kumaravadivelu.
• California State University Monterey Bay invites you to join Education's DigitalStream Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Cultures 4th annual conference, to be held March 21 - 23, 2002 on the CSU Monterey Bay campus in Seaside, California. (http://iwlc.csumb.edu/digitalstream/) Our theme for 2002 is: Paradigm Shift! Implications of Emergining Technologies for Teaching Languages and Cultures. What does it mean to be untethered? Can language classrooms be virtual? >How much more can we do online with universal broadband access? Can we create "Hi-tech" / "Hi-touch" language learning?
• Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, http://www.aace.org/conf/site/advprog.htm, March 18-23, Nashville, TN
• Developing a Sense of Place for Distance Education, Tucson, 24-27 January 2002 http://www.place.arizona.edu/

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• International Conference on Information Technology, Communications and Development 29th -30th November 2001. Hotel Yak and Yeti, Kathmandu, Nepal In the years since the development of the world wide web, an increasing number of people also in developing countries have been using information communication technology (ICT) to bring about change in their work methods and environment and to speed up the development process. Development organizations, NGOs, media houses, government agencies, schools and many individuals make use of ICT in one way or another. What are the results? What is the context between ICT and development? Please send papers/proposals for presentations to alfred.diebold@fesnepal.org Further information about the conference is available on the web at http://www.fesnepal.org
• EXPOLINGUA in Berlin - November 16 - 18, 2001 (http://www.expolingua.com/)
• Tech Tactics across the Curriculum: Cybertools 2001 November 16 & 17, 2001 at the English Language Center at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. This is the 4th annual conference focusing on the uses of technology in education. Please visit the conference site for details on registering, submitting a proposals, costs, etc.: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~elc/call.html
• The 7th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: Emerging Standards of Excellence in Asynchronous Learning Networks will be held on November 15-18, 2001 in Orlando, Florida. Details at http://www.aln.org/
• Computers in Education, Seoul, 12-15 November 2001 http://www.icce2001.org/
• International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education "Synthesizing Online Teaching Strategies" November 12-14, 2001 Preconference Web Site: http://www.ipfw.edu/as/2001tohe/
• The ELT online conference (ELToc, http://www.eltoc.com) to be held online November 10 & 11, 2001 is now inviting presentation proposals. The title of the conference is "ELT: Evolution of Learning & Teaching". The conference itself will be held entirely online, meaning presenters and delegates will take part from anywhere in the world. Presentations are given via live audio using the free WindowsMedia system plus pre-prepared visual materials using programs such as PowerPoint. Over the two days more than 40 presentations, keynote speeches and panel-discussions will be held, and over 200 delegates from around the world are expected to attend. All presentations will be archived, allowing for later viewing. To give a presentation or to take part in the conference a regular PC with modem-speed Internet connection is necessary. To read more about the event, please visit http://www.eltoc.com . Submission deadline for presentation proposals is August 17, 2001.
• The Fifth International Conference on Multimedia Language Education, ROCMELIA 2001. Conference Theme: Innovative Multimedia Language Education. Conference Dates and Venue: October 26-28, 2001 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), National Taiwan University (Taipei City, Taiwan) Early Registration Deadline: October 1, 2001 For further information, please contact us at rocmelia@pagic.net or visit http://www.rocmelia.com.tw ***ROCMELIA stands for "The Multimedia English Learning and Instruction Association in the Republic of China,"
• Play and Simulation Games in the Classroom" is to be held in September 2001; more information at http://www.etonsa.cjb.net/ (no exact date given at the website; ETONSA is English Teachers Online Network of South Africa). The intention of the workshop is to allow practising teachers to discuss their strategies, and share ideas.
• Sept 24-25, 2001, Real Conference 2001, Seattle, http://www.real.com/
• 7th International Netties Conference 3rd International Conference on New Learning Technologies University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg (Ecole d'ingénieurs et d'architectes de Fribourg) Switzerland, September 13th to 15th 2001 - http://www.netties.net/
• The XII International Conference of the Association for Spanish as a Foreign Language (ASELE) will be held at the Polytechnic University of Valencia from 5th - 8th September, 2001. Conference theme: "Tecnologías de la información y de las comunicaciones en la enseñanza de E/LE" - Abstract submission deadline: 30th April, 2001: http://www.upv.es/asele
• 5-7 September 2001 – ItiRA Information Technology in Regional Areas Conference 2001, Using Informatics to transform regions, to be held at Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. The theme of the Conference is to examine research and applications in the use of Information Technology in Regional Areas. For general information on the conference contact itira@cqu.edu.au or visit http://itira.cqu.edu.au. )
• SOLE2001 - 2nd Annual International Symposium on Online Learning, 5th-8th September 2001, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Collaboratively hosted by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, MIMOS Berhad and the Ministry of Education, Malaysia, http://www.calm.unimas.my/sole2001 Xenu Link Sleuth reports 404 Not Found July 26, 2002
• EuroSpeech 2001 - Scandinavia EuroSpeech 2001 - Scandinavia ISCA - International Speech Communication Association, Aalborg University - Center for PersonKommunikation, September 3 - 7, 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, http://www.elsnet.org
• September 1-3 Ninth Biennial International Exeter CALL 2001 Conference on 'CALL - The Challenge of Change', University of Exeter. Email: K.C.Cameron@ex.ac.uk. To mark the opening of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the conference will be followed by an optional workshop on 'Arabic meeting the challenge of CALL' on the afternoon of September 3. We have written a report on Exeter CALL '01 (September 1-3, 2001). Dr. Kenji Kitao and his wife have written a report at http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/library/report/exeter/exeter01.htm with links to the previous conference reports.
• 30 August - 1st September - EUROCALL 2001: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, has pre-conference workshops planned for the Tuesday and Wednesday before the actual conference. Conference theme: E-Learning. Keynote speakers: Michael Levy, University of Queensland, Australia Manfred Pienemann, University of Paderborn, Germany Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bristol University, UK Rodolfo Delmonte, University of Venice, Italy. Early bird registration closes 31 May. See the conference website at http://www.kun.nl/eurocall/ - pictures from the EUROCALL 2001 conference in Nijmegen can be found under the button 'coverage' on the conference website at http://www.kun.nl/eurocall/index2.html.
• Wednesday 29, August 2001 - http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil/ - The "POP InSTIL Day" (Portes Ouvertes à la Parole) is a celebration of the Integration of Speech Technology in Language Learning in the 21st Century, Wednesday 29th August 2001 in Nijmegen, Holland (satellite event of EUROCALL 2001) . It's the 4th InSTIL Day and first Hands-On Event and Exhibitionand of Hardware, Software, Courseware, Publications and academic protoypes. Jared Bernstein from Ordinate will introduce his work in the area of Speech Recognition and Language Testing (see http://www.ordinate.com/) ; Julia Kommissarchick from BetterAccent.com will present the company's remarkable product for teaching English Pronunciation with visualisation, etc... See http://www.betteraccent.com/ ; Garry Moholt from West Chester University will also present innovative research in the use of visualisation tools such as the industry standard Kay Elemetrics hardware; Pierre-Yves Toche and Philippe Delcloque from the University of Abertay Dundee will show what use could be made of Speech-Enabled Virtual Reality in Language Learning with the prototype "Zoé va au Zoo, Odyssée Spatiale de l'An 01", part of the umbrella THRILLING project; Helmer Strik and Catia Cucchiarini from the University of Nijmegen will present a paper on Automatic Assessment and Fluency; and Keith Ross from Institut Eurocom and Wimba will discuss "Teaching Languages with Asynchronous Voice over the Internet", see http://www.wimba.com/
• Effective use of the Internet in language teaching: What & how - 20-24 August 2001, Amsterdam International summer course, organised by The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University in co-operation with the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (ILO), Universiteit van Amsterdam. Further information & how to apply: please contact Justine Smithuis at The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, tel. +31 (0)20 6200225, e-mail justine@amsu.edu. See also http://www.amsu.edu.
• August 17 & 18, 2001 - Two Events, One Symposium: Designing and Delivering Foreign Language Study for the Autonomous Learner. RP-ALLA 2001 - Research Perspectives in Adult Language Learning and Acquisition, Columbus, Ohio and SCEAL 2001 - Summer Conference on East Asian Languages Session: Accommodating the Autonomous Learners of East Asian Languages, August 19, 2001 in Columbus, Ohio - http://flc.ohio-state.edu/rp-alla/
• 6 to 8 August 2001 - International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Madison, Wisconsin - Conference theme: "Advanced Learning Technologies: Issues, Achievements And Challenges" Website: http://lttf.ieee.org/icalt2001/
• The Conference of Japan Association of Language Education and Technology (LET) 2001 is to be held at Aichi University, Nagoya Campus, Japan, August 3 (Fri), 4 (Sat), 5 (Sun), 2001. The theme of the LET Conference is "Toward a Harmonious Multilingual and Multicultural Society in the 21st Century". Call for Papers on the LET 2001 Conference web site at: http://www-clc.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/conferences/LET2001/
• TESOL will host three technology workshops this summer led by Leslie Opp-Beckman - http://www.tesol.org/edprg/2001/academies/index.html . The workshops are held at the University of Denver from June 15-17, 2001, Depaul University, Chicago, Illinois from July 13-15, 2001, and San Diego State University from July 27-29, 2001 - Creating Effective Web-Based Materials This hands-on workshop will show you how to find and evaluate appropriate Web-based resources for teaching and how to incorporate these resources in classes with one or more computers through the creation of Web page and print activities.
• 24 to 26 July 2001 - Education Technology 2001 Conference, Arlington, Virginia, http://www.salt.org
• July 16-17, the third of a series of meetings of the Forum on "New Technology and the French language," to take place at the University of Ottawa: Le Comité de liaison de l'Institut des langues secondes de l'Université d'Ottawa vous invite à assister au Forum multimédia "Contribution des nouvelles technologies à la francophonie mondiale" qui se tiendra les 16 et 17 juillet 2001 à l'Université d'Ottawa. Pour plus de renseignements, pour avoir un aperçu du programme préliminaire ou pour vous inscrire, visitez la page du Forum: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/forum2001.html

· 5-7 July 2001 - Alte European Year of Languages Conference, “European language testing issues in a global context”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, organized locally by the Generalitat de Catalunya, http://www.alte.org

· 28-30 June 2001 -  European Year of Languages Conference (organised under the auspices of the European Language Council), Freie Universität Berlin, http://www.sprachlabor.fu-berlin.de/eyl2001conf - A workshop is planned on co-operation and sharing of resources in language learning and teaching in higher education in Europe. It will form part of the third conference of the European Language Council, Berlin, on “Multilingualism and New Learning Environments”. ELC/CEL Website: http://www.fu-berlin.de/elc

· 26 June to 30 June, 2001 - The Language Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Department of Applied Foreign Language Studies, Nanjing University are jointly organising the 2001 International Conference "Technology in Language Education: Meeting the Challenges of Research and Practice"; website at http://lc.ust.hk/~centre/conf2001/

· "Education for the 21st Century: New Trends and Perspectives for Learning" Presented by: Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance & LEO Training & Consultancy Sdn Bhd, An international/Asia-Pacific forum for presentation & discussion of research and best practices on technology, new learning paradigms, & the ever changing communities of organisations, training, & academia, 25, 26, & 27 June 2001 in Kuala Lumpur. Contact Howard J Mlakar, Assistant Program Director, The Learning Exchange Organisation, LEO Training & Consultancy Sdn Bhd, 8-7-4 Menara Mutiara Bangsar, Jalan Liku, 59100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, tel: (603) 2284.6300, fax: (603) 2284.7116, http://www.hkleo.com/corp-training/training-micg.htm

· June 20 - 22, 2001 - 8th Annual EDINEB International Conference, “Technology, Pedagogy and Innovation”, http://www.edineb.net/, EDHEC School of Management, Nice, France, In collaboration with Formations Hommes et Conseils

· JALTCALL2001 - The Japan Association for Language Teaching CALL Special Interest Group holds its 6th Annual Conference, "The Changing Face of CALL: Emerging Technologies - Emerging Pedagogies" at Kanto Gakuin University, May 26-27, 2001 - http://jaltcall.org/conferences/call2001/

· May 24 to May 27, 2001 - The Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics will hold its 2001 conference as part of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec.  http://www.aclacaal.org/

· May 23 to May 25, 2001 - The conference proceedings of The Second International ELT Research Conference: Reflections of the Twentieth Century ELT Studies on Language Teaching and Teacher Training is now availbale online at http://yadem.comu.edu.tr/ . Chapters include: Theory & Teaching Methodology; Psychology & Language Teaching; Teacher Training; English for Specific Purposes; Literature & Language Teaching; Linguistics & Language Teaching.

· May 9-10 – 5^th Annual CTELT Conference (Current Trends in English Language Testing) at Dubai Men’s College, HCT, http://taesig.com.

· Computers & Writing Online 2001, call for papers: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/cwonline2001/present/cfp.html. C&W Online is an online companion conference for C&W 2001 (which meets in May 2001 at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA). The online conference allows the C&W community to extend the mission and scope of the onsite conference in several ways – by including those who can't travel to the onsite conference; by providing a venue for events which are difficult to include in the onsite conference, and by giving onsite conference attendees a chance to meet online before the conference and participate in activities valuable to those in C&W. The onsite and online conferences are coordinated by two separate teams who work together to make sure the events of both conferences are complimentary. Conference web site: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/cwonline2001/

· 27-29 April 2001 - 33 Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM33) http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/plm/index.html, including Challenges In Computer-Assisted Applied Linguistics, a CCAAL workshop on 27 April 2001 organized by the Department of English Computer Linguistics, School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University

· April 17 to May 1, 2000 – Temple University is hosting a virtual conference on Intellectual Property and Digital Information in Higher Education. Several live chat sessions will address intellectual property issues that concern creators, users, and publishers of digital works. For more information please visit the conference web site at http://www.temple.edu/virtualconference.

· CADE Computers in Art and Design Education Conference, 9 to 12 April 2001, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.  The CADE (Computers in Art and Design Education) Conference is one of the worldÆs principal forums for digital creativity in art and design education. CADE 2001's theme is "Digital Creativity: Crossing the Border".  Website: http://www.cade.ac.uk

· April 9-11, 2001 – 2001, an Online Odyssey, TAFE South Australia and WebCT are pleased to announce the second Asia Pacific WebCT Conference to be held in Adelaide: http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/top/webctconf/

· 29 & 30 March 2001, International Colloquium on Trends in Special Language and Language Technology, Sponsored by Erasmushogeschool Brussels, De Nederlandse Taalunie and Vrije, Universiteit Brussel; surf to http://ttk.ehb.be

· TechEd01 International Conference & Exposition 26 to 29 March 2001, Ontario, California, USA - TechEd01 is an international hands-on educational technology conference that gives university, college, and secondary school educators the opportunity to see, hear, and touch the latest technological solutions shaping education's future.  This years keynote speakers include Stan Davis, author of "The Monster Under the Bed," and John Morgridge, Chairman of the Board, Cisco Systems, Inc.  TechEd01 offers over 120 Hands-on Computer workshops, 130 Concurrent and Vendor sessions, Special Interest Symposiums, and over 300 exciting exhibit spaces.  E-mail enquiries: jwemken@techedevents.org, Website: http://www.techedevents.org, Organized by: TechEd Events/Community College Foundation - Proceeds were available for download on session by session basis for the Long Beach Conference, no date given.

· The Language Learning and Research Center at the State University at Stony Brook, Long Island, NY will be hosting two activities in March. It will host an ACTFL/IALL workshop on "Using Technology for Effective Language Learning"   This is one in a series of national two-day workshops on the topic, led by experts in the field.  The workshop will be held Wed. Mar. 21^st and Thurs. Mar. 22nd in the LLRC at Stony Brook.  Cost is approximately $300.  Scholarships for Stony Brook faculty may be available. Enrolment will be limited to 36 people. Student discount and ACTFL discount available. The second activity is the yearly meeting of the Northeast Association of Language Learning Technology.  Workshops will be held Fri. Mar. 23rd and the conference will be held Sat. Mar. 24th and Sun. Mar 25th. For any questions about NEALL begin by looking at its web page at http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/langlab/NEALL/NEALL.html

· March 13 - March 17, 2001 - CALICO 2001 Annual Symposium, “Technologies for Language Learning: Using the Proven and Proving the New” - Hosted by University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida - http://www.calico.org/calico01.html or perhaps http://calico.org/CALICO01/index.html 

• March/April 2001 at the University of Swansea - The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is holding roadshow events for anybody involved in the teaching of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in UK Higher Education Institutions.  Attendance is free.  Registration: http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/events/events_sc.html

· Feb 27-Mar 3, 2001, TESOL 2001 in St. Louis; TESOL's web info for the St. Louis Convention is available at http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2001/pp/01-welcome.html; The full schedule of events for the CALL-IS is at: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~call/ (click on EV2001 Schedule in the left-hand column); the full schedule of events at TESOL 2001, by Interest Section and content area is at: http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2001/pp/00-news.html; St. Louis Area Tours: http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2001/pp/26-tours-1.html; Electronic Village website: http://www.tesol.org/conv/t2001/pp/13-callev.html

· 24-27 February 2001 - CALICO has proposed a two-hour colloquium on foreign language technology at the 2001 meeting of the American Associated for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), in St. Louis, Missouri.  The colloquium will consist of four 20-minute presentations, each of which is to be followed by a 10-minute question and answer session. Presentations must clearly focus on issues of second language acquisition within a technologically enhanced environment.  They must also present carefully formulated quantitative or qualitative analytic results.  Finally, AAAL assumes that all proposals represent original and unpublished work.  (For more information on AAAL, see http://www.aaal.org)

· February 12-14, 2001. Online Conference for Teacher Educators - "Opening Gates in Teacher Education" – The English language conference archive is at http://vcisrael.macam.ac.il/site/eng under “Conference Schedule”.

• 30 January 2001 at the University of Stirling - The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is holding roadshow events for anybody involved in the teaching of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in UK Higher Education Institutions.  Attendance is free.  Registration: http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/events/events_sc.html

• 17 January 2001 at the University of Belfast - The Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is holding roadshow events for anybody involved in the teaching of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in UK Higher Education Institutions.  Attendance is free.  Registration: http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/events/events_sc.html

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2000 Conference sites

You can view the summaries of the NET*Working 2000 festival and expo by visiting http://flexiblelearning.net.au/nw2000 and logging in with your user name and password (???). On the home page you will find an icon for festival and expo summaries. The site will remain open until mid February 2000. There have been a number of requests to keep the site open longer.

• OZCHI 2000 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Interfacing reality in the new millennium, Sydney, Australia, 4-8 December 2000, http://www.cmis.csiro.au/ozchi2000/
• Cybertools 2000: Using audio, video, & computers in language teaching.  Koc University, Rumeli Feneri, Istanbul, Nov. 17-18, 2000, http://www.ku.edu.tr/call/
• IATEFL / TEAs Regional Networking Meeting in Budapest on 17 - 19 November 2000.
• An International Conference on Research & Practice in Professional Discourse will be held at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 15-19th, 2000 - http://Prof.Discourse2000.cityu.edu.hk
• International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education, "Student Success in Online Learning", November 13-14, 2000: http://www.ipfw.edu/as/2000tohe/
• Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University, September 28 - October 1, 2000 · The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center, Roanoke, Virginia http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning/
• 2nd Symposium On Second Language Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA September 15-16, 2000. There is a call for proposals for papers (20 minutes) and poster sessions. Proposals must be received by December 1, 1999. Any topic related to second language writing is welcome. More information is at http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~silvat/symposium/
• Internet Research 1.0: The State Of The Interdiscipline - First Annual Conference Of The Association Of Internet Researchers, University Of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA, September 14-17, 2000; Conference Website: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/
• The DRH 2000, Digital Resources for the Humanities conference will take place at the University of Sheffield, Stephenson Hall, 10-13 September 2000. Proposals for academic papers, themed panel sessions, posters and workshops are invited. Full details about the conference and the submission of proposals may be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/. Themes include: the creation of digital resources; their delivery, use and integration; the impact of digital resources on humanities research and education.
• CETaLL Symposium (Scientific Commission on Educational Technology and Language Learning, International Association of Applied Linguistics - AILA) - The Vlth Man and Media Symposium is planned to be held as part of the next BAAL Meeting in Cambridge, UK, 7-9 September 2000. The theme will be:Language learning in the information era: working faster, better, and with more user satisfaction? For more information on CETaLL consult homepage http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/LangCent/forlang/german/cetall.htm
• EUROCALL conference, 31 August - 2 September 2000, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, http://www.eurocall.org/ (links to upcoming conferences) or http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/eurocall2000/ (registration) and http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/eurocall2000/eng/pre-conf.htm
• InSTIL 2000, the first symposium organised by the InSTIL group "Integrating Speech Technology in (Language) Learning" will be held on 29 August to 30 August 2000 at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland. The two-day Symposium is supported by the InSTIL SIG three parent associations, CALICO, EUROCALL and ISCA (International Speech Communication Association). http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil/. This includes a History of CALL Web and Live Exhibition.
• "Cyber-Langues 2000", a small, 2-day conference on web-based methods in language teaching, will be held 24 and 25 August 2000 at the CDDP in Privas (Ardèche, France). For more information, consult the "Cyber-Langues 2000" webpage at: http://www.ardecol.ac-grenoble.fr/english/tice/frt-conf.htm Or contact: Philip.Benz@wanadoo.fr
• The Virtual Community of Academics and Intellectuals in the Middle East (MEViC) holds its inaugural Virtual Conference August 1-15 2000 at the MEViC website http://www.mevic.org.
• The 4th International Conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology (FLEAT IV) will be held at Kobe, Japan, July 29-August 1, 2000. Theme: Language Learning and Multimedia: Bridging Humanity and Technology. Currently inviting proposals for papers to be presented in either oral or poster sessions: Visit http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jhstew/FLEAT.html for much more interesting insights on what to expect on arrival in Japan.  Omosiroi des, neh?
• 'EYL: Teaching English to young learners' (0061), 23rd July - 5th August 2000, York; Directed by Annie Hughes, Lecturer in Education in EFL, this summer school will cover developing the four skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing with young learners. For further information please contact Robert Pinheiro, The British Council; robert.pinheiro@britishcouncil,org or visit the web-site http://www.britishcouncil.org/networkevents
• International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology And Communication (CATaC'00); Conference Theme: Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village; 12-15 July 2000, Perth, Australia. For an overview of the themes and presentations of CATaC'98 and links to the papers, see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html
• ELT and Education Technology in the Digital Age' (0063), 9th - 22nd July 2000, Brighton - Directed by Brian Hill, Head of School of Languages. This summer school has been designed to provide English teachers with up-to-date information on how best to make use different technologies, and to provide opportunities for hands on experience. For further information please contact Robert Pinheiro, The British Council; robert.pinheiro@britishcouncil,org or visit the web-site http://www.britishcouncil.org/networkevents
• There was a WebCT conference this month in Savannah, Georgia, http://www.webct2000.org/
• The New Communicators: Graduates with Languages  - Teaching Languages in Universities in the 21st Century East Midlands Conference Centre July 3 – 5, 2000.  Full details of this major conference can now be found on the CILT website at http://www.cilt.org.uk/confs/higher.htm.
• Adult Literacy & Technology Conference 2000 - http://www.pbs.org/literacy/alt2000 - Bridging the Digital Divide, will be held on the campus of American University,Washington, DC  June 14 - 17, 2000 - national conference focusing on adult basic education and technology. Conference homepage at http://www.pbs.org/literacy/alt2000.
• CALICO 2000, Core Technologies: Impact on the Future, at the University of Arizona, May 30-June 3, 2000. Register at CALICO's web site http://calico.org; visit  http://www.calico.org/CALICO00/index.html for the UofA main conference page. CALICO is hosting a two-day workshop on DVD, entitled "DVD Development for Language Learning", 30-31 May 2000, in Tucson, AZ. Go to http://www.calico.org/CALICO00/index.html and click on "Workshops" for more information. - The University of Arizona Critical Languages Program presents a free workshop: "Using MaxAuthor to Create CALL Courseware for Less Commonly Taught Languages" Wed, May 31, 7-9pm, to coincide with the CALICO 2000 conference at UofA (see http://calico.org according to email blurb)
• The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) International Conference on Computers And Advancted Technology In Education (CATE 2000), May 24-27, 2000, Cancun, Mexico; http://www.iasted.com
• The Computer Based Collaborative Group Work (CBCGW) Project, Centre for The Study of Networked Learning & Department Of Educational Studies, University Of Sheffield, UK invites you to join a 3-week international virtual guest seminar May 22nd - June 9^th, 2000. "We invite you, as part of an International audience, to participate in a forthcoming virtual guest seminar to be delivered on the Collaborate discussion list. This seminar will be of interest to all those wishing to discuss the work of an established practitioner in the use of online group learning. It will also appeal to a wider audience wishing to experience a virtual seminar as a possible model for your own practice. No charge is made for this professional development event lasting 3 weeks and entirely online. The online seminar is the second in an occasional professional development series of online events offered by the Computer Based Collaborative Group Work Project web site <http://collaborate.shef.ac.uk> The project aims to research and support the development of networked group learning. Mr Sefton Bloxham, teaching fellow in law, University of Lancaster, UK, will host an online seminar on his work entitled "The Ups And Downs of Delivering A Networked Learning Environment for Collaborative Learning -Some Reflections on Practice" If interested, join the list for the seminar send a message with no subject/header to <listproc@sheffield.ac.uk> In the body of the message put: subscribe firstname lastname collaborate
• There's a conference scheduled for May 10-11 titled, Current Trends in English Language Testing 2000; The conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dubai and is sponsored by the TESOL Arabia's Testing and Teacher Education SIG (Special Interest Group). Deadline for proposals is April 20. Their site is at: http://taesig.8m.com/.
• There is an On-line Tutoring Skills project International e-Workshop: Developing On-Line Tutors 8 - 12 May 2000 - http://otis.scotcit.ac.uk/e-Workshop.  The workshop is full as of April 16, 2000.
• TEND 2000 stands for Technological Education and National Development conference titled "Crossroads of the New Millennium". The event, which is the second international conference organised by the Higher Colleges of Technology, will take place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 8 to 10 April, 2000. Find more info at: http://crm.hct.ac.ae or email: tend@hct.ac.ae.
• The Center for Language Study at Yale University announces a Colloquium on Language Centers, to be held March 25-26, 2000. For further details about the Colloquium and about hotel accommodations, and for the registration form, contact: Stephanie Reid, stephanie.reid@yale.edu or Nina Garrett, nina.garrett@yale.edu http://www.yale.edu/cls/
• The University of technology of Compiegne is organising its 3rd conference on the Use of New Technologies in Foreign Language Teaching (UNTELE 2000), 23-25 March 2000. The principal theme of the up-coming conference: Virtual Environments and Language Learning: the role played by virtual environments in foreign language teaching and learning. Program etc. at http://www.utc.fr/~untele
• TESOL 2000, March 21-25, 2000, Vancouver, BC, Canada, http://www.tesol.edu; Internet web fair presentations: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~call/ev2000
• AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) March 11-14, Vancouver, BC, Canada, http://www.aaal.org

• A Conference on Technology-Enhanced Foreign Language Teaching, The Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALL) in conjunction with the Tri-College Mellon Language Project at Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges is organizing the NEALL 2000 conference, to be held March 3-5, 2000 at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges in the suburban Philadelphia area. The conference web site is at http://lang.swarthmore.edu/neall2000/
• The European Alternative Authorware Conference (Euro-TAAC)! February 23-25, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Visit: http://www.eurotaac.com

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1999 Conference sites

• Online Educa Berlin is the 5th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning November 24 - 26. Information about this event can be found at http://www.online-educa.com. Organizers are International Conferences, Exhibitions and Fairs (ICEF).
• International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education "Online Teaching And Learning Experiences"; November 8-9, 1999,Preconference Web Site: http://www.ipfw.edu/as/99tohe/
• IT and Multimedia In English Language Teaching (IT-MELT)'99 - Hong Kong, 6-7 November, 1999; Contact: Sue Fitzgerald: ecsusan@polyu.edu.hk, http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/conference now points to upcoming conference
• The Learner Independence Special Interest Group at IATEFL (International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) is organising a conference on Self-Access on Nov 6, 1999 (and possibly also the evening of Nov 5, 1999), at Eurocentres, Cambridge. Confirmed speakers include Gill Sturtridge and Felicity O'Dell. Info possibly on the IATEFL website: http://www.iatefl.org
• An International iCS Conference on New Media in Higher Education and Learning organized by The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, USA and Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit (CIRA), University of Teesside, UK on behalf of Information, Communication and Society (iCS) Journal to be held 27-30 October 1999 - Visit http://www.usc.edu/go/newmedia

• The Webcasting site for the Pan Asian Tesol Conference in Seoul, Korea October 1-3 is now online at: http://asianbridges.com/pac2/ ; its proceedings have been published online in pdf and are here: http://www.kotesol.org/pubs/proceedings/1999/
• In September there was a conference called Communiversity held online at: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~eilean/communiversitycontents.htm

• EUROCALL'99 http://eurocall99.univ-fcomte.fr, Besancon (France)15 - 18 September 1999.
• Learn-IT World Conference: Indigenous Perspectives of Learning Online, September 10th - September 16th 1999. Conference papers are located at the Learn IT web site, under WWW Conference: http://www.soe.jcu.edu.au/learnIT/

• Richard Slessor and Eva Easton will be hosting a material writer's workshop online on ELTASIA-L in August '99. A pre-workshop paper with a focus on producing educational materials will be posted at http://eltasia.com/ . The online workshop, the ezine publishing, and the list signup to participate are all free.

• June 28, 1999, Streaming Media Conference, http://www.streamingmedia.net.
• June 22, 1999 (preceding IALL-99 and ACL-99) at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation In Natural Language Processing, http://umiacs.umd.edu/~molsen/acl-iall; a Symposium jointly sponsored by: International Association of Language Learning Technologies and Association for Computational Linguistics. A listserv has been set up to encourage interaction and questions before the symposium. To be added to the list, send mail to "acl-iall-request@cfar.umd.edu" with "subscribe" in the subject line. Messages may be submitted to everyone on the list by sending mail to "acl-iall@cfar.umd.edu".
• CALICO '99 Annual Symposium hosted by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio: Advancing Language Learning Technologies into the New Millennium; Preconference Workshops: Tuesday, June 1 - Wednesday, June 2, Courseware Showcase: Friday, June 4 (tentative), Regular Sessions: Thursday, June 3 - Saturday, June 5. The proceedings are at http://www.calico.org/calico99.html
• " C@lling Asia, the 4th Annual JALT CALL N-SIG Conference on Computers and Language Learning, will meet May 22-23. Workshops and various other types of computer presentations will be held in the brand new ‘State-of-the-Art’ computer facilities at Kyoto Sangyo University in Kyoto. http://jaltcall.org/program/kyoto99/program.html
• 13 May 1999 - multimedia coverage of the Pusan Chapter Kotesol Confernce is online at: http://pusanweb.com/kotesol/conf99/ . The site includes abstracts, bios, photos, and video clips from each presentation as well as video from opening speeches and a large photo gallery.
• Classroom Connect: Connected Classroom Conference, Baltimore, April 14-17, 1999. http://www.classroom.net/pd/
• Classroom Connect: Connected Classroom Conference, Chicago, March 17-20, 1999. http://www.classroom.net/pd/
• TESOL 1999, March 8-14, 1999, New York, NY; links to Web Fair presentations at http://www.ilc.cuhk.edu.hk/english/TESOL99/presenters.html; Conference handouts available at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/TESL/Conference_Presentations/
• The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, AACE, has conferences throughout the year. Conferences in 1999 are in San Antonio, Seattle, Honolulu, and Chiba (Japan). Check their web site at http://www.aace.org/conf/

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1998 Conference sites

• International Symposium on Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, 14-16 December, 1998: http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/cecl.html .
• The FLEAT III conference was held at Victoria, British Columbia last August. The proceeds comprise 40 articles totalling about 500 pages and cost US$20, taxes and shipping included. Check the web site at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3/proceedings.html
• CALICO '98 Annual Symposium, San Diego State University, "NEW DIRECTIONS--NEW PERSPECTIVES", Monday, July 6 - Friday, July 10, proceedings at http://www.calico.org/calico98.html
• WorldCALL '98 Conference, July 13-18 at Melbourne University, Australia, http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/~hlc/worldcall/
• Ed-Media/Ed-Telecom, June 20-25, 1998 Freiburg, GERMANY
• CALL-IS Software Applications Fair at TESOL '98, Seattle, Washington, USA, Thursday, March 19, 1998 (9:30 - 11:15), Jim Buell's Electronic Village Support Site: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/jbuell/village98/index.html.

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1997 Conference sites

• Ed-Media & Ed-Telecom conferences since 1997
• Global Knowledge Development '97 Conference in Toronto.
• The American Studies Center of the Salzburg Seminar runs occasional workshops and seminars. A recent one was on Distance Education: A Cutting Edge Classroom Resource for English as a Foreign Language Programs (April 9-18, 1997) with Anthea Tillyer, Caroline Moore and Tony Picciano. Their lectures were broadcast live over the Internet on Real Audio. Seminars are either concurrent or are archived at: Visit the Salzburg Seminar website at http://www.salzburgseminar.org/index.htm
• (Australian) AusWeb Conferences, 1995, 96, 97 etc.

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