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The Functional Future of Bibliographic Control

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Special Issue of Journal of Library Metadata

 

“The Functional Future of Bibliographic Control”

 

Guest Editor: Dr. Shawne D. Miksa, Associate Professor, Dept. of Library and Information Sciences

The year 2010 was designated as the Year of Cataloging Research and we made progress on studying the challenges facing metadata and information organization practices.  However, one year of research is merely a drop in the bucket. This special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata intends to address the research and issues as it concerns the functional future of metadata and information organization. 

Topics will vary across a range of issues, including historical, practical, conceptual, educational

�         Re-conceptualization of bibliographic control, past and future; historical analysis of the implementation of AACR1 and AACR2

�         Entity-relationship models and visualizing new cataloging workflows, both conceptual and practical

�         How functional requirement models impact information behavior (both user and information professional) and resource discovery across information environments

�         Bibliographic relationships, bibliographic families; how successfully are these relationships represented using RDA, etc.

�         Re-defining the library catalog system–what are the boundaries of the catalog, objectives of the catalog;  pros and cons of viewing the library catalog as a catalog or as new entity altogether

�         How do user tasks (find, identify, select, obtain, contextualize, justify, explore/navigate)

drive description and encoding of bibliographic data? How are they supported in the library catalog? What does it actually mean to support these tasks?

�         Authority control in a FRBR-based system; find, identify, contextualize, and justify; both renewed and new authority control training

�         Social tagging and control: the impact on subject analysis, determination, and representation

�         Addition of non-traditional data to bibliographic records (e.g., citation data, reviews, tag clouds, etc) whether embedded or linked

�          “mark it and park it” vs. functional requirements as outlined in FRBR, FRAD, and FRSAD

�         Interoperability between library systems, copy cataloging, outsourcing of records as impacted by choice of type of description (comprehensive, analytical, or hierarchical) in RDA

�         transitioning out of MARC or transitioning MARC? (e.g., see recent announcement by LC entitled “Transforming our Bibliographic Framework”)

�         Diffusion of new tools and resources and concepts (e.g., new metadata schema, rules, frameworks, and models), within the cataloging community;  methods of diffusion, rate of adoption and understanding by information organizational professionals

�         RDA Implementation issues, feasibility studies, training issues, usability studies involving catalogers, reference librarians, and the end-user as they work on creating and using RDA-based records, etc., across all types of libraries.

�         Increased complexity of cataloging and catalog systems, including increases in authority control work, subject representation, etc., and its impact on library administration and operation costs

�         Appropriate methodologies for analysis of functionality success or failure

�         Functional future and the school library, public library, etc.

�         Education of information professionals for the functional future

 

Submission:

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit electronically a 1-2 page proposal with names of authors, affiliation, and emails addresses.  Final revised manuscripts (3000-7000 words) are expected to be submitted by December 30, 2011. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

 

Important Dates:

Proposal submission date: June 30, 2011

Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2011

Completed papers due: December 30, 2011

Publication: June 2012

 

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) to the guest editor at following addresses: Shawne.Miksa@unt.edu

 

“The Journal of Library Metadata is the exclusive forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications in libraries and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. This focused journal comprehensively discusses practical, applicable information that libraries can effectively use in their own information discovery environments. Specialized knowledge, the latest technology, and top research are presented pertaining specifically to evolving metadata use in libraries.” More information about Journal of Library Metadata can be found online: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t792306902~link=cover

 

 

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Global and Local Perspectives on Social Justice Pedagogy: History, Policy, and Praxis

Posted on May 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Call for Submissions

Equity and Excellence in Education Special Theme Issue

 

Global and Local Perspectives on Social Justice Pedagogy:

History, Policy, and Praxis

 

Guest Editors: Thandeka K. Chapman and Nikola Hobbel

 

The term “global” applies to our desire to have international representation in this special issue. All contexts are indeed “local” to those who research and participate in them, but “global” to those a continent removed. Therefore, our use of “global” and “local” in the title recognizes the diversity of geographical spaces in which social justice education take place. Additionally, we ask that articles submitted for the special issue explore the macro and micro contexts in which social justice pedagogy take place. Authors should locate their work within the greater social and political contexts that shape their research or conceptualizations of social justice education. We ask that the authors explain the tensions (support systems and/ or barriers) between the macro contexts of their district, region, state, and/or country and the micro contexts of the history, policy, or praxis of social justice pedagogy in their specific educational contexts.

 

The term “social justice education” has gained significant attention in the past decade of education research. The roots and wings of critical pedagogy, such as multicultural education, anti-oppressive education, intergroup education, and women’s and ethnic studies represent some key educational paradigms that have informed social justice education. Historically, educators and activists have used these and related paradigms in education to shape more equal and just educational communities, to challenge discourses of power and privilege, and to foster critical consciousness and social engagement within and beyond their communities. It is indeed this goal, to change the worlds in which we live, that will fuel this special theme issue of Equity & Excellence in Education.

 

We welcome manuscripts that offer research findings, theoretical perspectives, methodological discussions, and pedagogical reflections concerning (but not limited to) the following areas:

 

•         Empirical studies documenting social justice pedagogy in national and international contexts

•         Reviews of research about social justice pedagogy from the United States and other countries, including Australia, China, Africa, Indonesia, South America, the European Union, and First Nations

•         Conceptual papers synthesizing, explicating, and challenging concepts of social justice in national and international policy contexts

•         Historicizations of social justice pedagogy, including historical figures/elders of the field, seminal works, and early attempts toward equity and access in education

•         Reflective accounts detailing enactments of social justice pedagogy

•         Research focused on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Native American Tribal Colleges

•         Speculative work connecting social justice pedagogies to larger social justice aims

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Follow Instructions for Authors on our website (http://www.eee-journal.com). In addition, please include a cover letter indicating that this submission is for the Global Perspectives on Social Justice Pedagogy special issue. Mail submissions so that they will be received by November 15, 2011. Please address questions to the Guest Editors at pedagogyeee@gmail.com  This special issue is due to be published in February 2013.

 

 

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“Cloud Computing, Networking, and Service (CCNS) Management”

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Call for Papers

 

Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management (http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10922)

 

Special Issue on “Cloud Computing, Networking, and Service (CCNS) Management”

 

CfP URL: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/cfp-10922-20101124.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1030737-p35750479

 

Paper submission date: June 15, 2011

 

Impact Factor: 1.356 (Q1 in Telecommunications and Q2 in Computer Science, Information Systems), Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters

 

When submitting please select “SI:CCNS” in Editorial Manager as article type

 

Cloud computing, networking, and their related service management including grid computing (as appropriate) have recently emerged out of marketing

hype to viable computing/networking tools for reducing infrastructure deployment and service management costs without sacrificing the quality of

service/experience (QoS/E).

 

Although the virtualization of computing and networking resources, and their self-organizing interconnection is at the heart of it, the

methods/mechanisms/tools that are used to expose (visualization) resources and their utilization (the application programming interfaces of APIs) for

developing anything (*) as a service (*aaS) are still ad-hoc and/or proprietary in nature. Security, privacy, and multi-tenancy support requirements

add another dimension to the already complex set of Cloud –computing and networking– management problems.

 

This JNSM SI on CCNS management will include invited and referee-recommended papers on the following topics:

 

– Cloud Applications and Services

–> Any computing, data-storing, and networking as a service

– API for enabling Cloud-based Services

–> Public, Private, and Hybrid (toolkit approach) APIs

– Virtualization (of any and all resources) and Hosting

–> Virtualization of Clients/Desktop, Applications, Services, and Databases

–> Distributed Intra- and Inter-Domain Storage/FileSystems/Database

–> Distributed Intra- and Inter-Domain Scheduling of resources

–> Resources Mobility and Multi-tenancy

– Protocols and Interoperability

–> Adaptive Protocols for Generic Cloud Services

–> Inter-Domain Service-Specific Adaptive Protocols

– Private, Public, Community, Hybrid Clouds

–> Addressability, Networking Extensions, Service Quality Agreement

– Cloud Service Logging and Monitoring

–> Including Auditing and Verification

– Soft and Hard Privacy and Security for Cloud-based Services

–> Process, Practice and Mechanisms

– Risk, Resiliency, and SLA (RRS) of Services in Clouds

–> Risk-tolerance, MMTF, MMTR, etc. for Components and Apps/Services (End-to-End)

– Cloud Service and Infrastructure Management

–> Including Visualization, Automation, Debugging and Diagnosis

– Reports from CCNS management Experiments and Filed Deployments

–> University, Consortia, Industry/ Field Trials, etc.

– Mobility Management in Cloud Computing

–> Cloud service hosting mobility and service migration

–> Elastic computing using mobile codes

– Policy management in Cloud computing

–> Regulations and export control of using Cloud computing

 

 

Important dates

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Paper submission date: June 15, 2011

Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2011

Final paper due: April 15, 2012

Publication date: September 2012

 

 

Guest Editors

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– Bhumip Khasnabish, ZTE USA, Inc. (vumip1@gmail.com)

– Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA (Dijiang.Huang@asu.edu)

– Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China (baixy@tsinghua.edu.cn)

– Paolo Bellavista, Universit� degli Studi di Bologna, Italy (paolo.bellavista@unibo.it)

– Bruno Schulze, National Lab. for Scientific Computing – LNCC, Brazil (schulze@lncc.br)

– Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain (gregorio@um.es)

– Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK (N.Antonopoulos@derby.ac.uk)

 

 

—

Gregorio Martinez, PhD

University of Murcia, Spain

http://webs.um.es/gregorio/

 

 

 

 

 

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South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Women’s Studies session

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The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Women’s Studies session invites papers that explore the 2011 conference theme, “The Power of Poetry in the Modern World,” and its connection to Women’s Studies, broadly defined. Presentations may address, among other topics, poetry in the Women’s Studies classroom, poetry as feminist intervention, poetry and the construction/exploration of gender, and any other topics exploring intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and class in light of the conference theme. Though submissions focusing on the conference theme are encouraged, submissions that are not poetry-related and that focus on other aspects of gender and women’s studies and/or the gender and women’s studies classroom are also very welcome.

Please submit proposals (up to 350 words) with institutional affiliation and contact information via email to Laura Davis, Kennesaw State University (LDavis1@kennesaw.edu) by June 10, 2011; include “SAMLA Proposal” in the subject line.

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The 20th Annual Women’s Studies Conference Women and Labor: At Home, At Work, Around the Globe”

Posted on May 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Southern Connecticut State University

 

Women’s Studies Program

 

Presents

 

The 20th Annual Women’s Studies Conference

“Women and Labor: At Home, At Work, Around the Globe”

 

To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University

Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21

 

 

INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORK

Our 20th annual conference addresses one perennial struggle in women’s movements across the globe: labor.  As we witness this spring the surge of labor movements in the U.S. as labor is challenged–specifically, unionized & feminized labor, we also receive findings, just released in May 2011 by Ms. Foundation for Women, that women are bearing the brunt of today’s economic crisis.  More than ever, women’s labor is at the forefront of our struggles.  In a different part of the world, we continue to observe women’s critical contribution to what is now called the Arab Awakening.  Yet we, too, see little representation of women in the wake of the Egyptian revolution.  By all accounts, the report cards on women and labor have made less than significant progress over the decades.  In this annual conference, we invite colleagues and activists to take a close look at all issues concerning women and labor, in both private and public domains as well

as globally and locally.  Employed as a category of analysis in women’s and gender studies, feminist analyses of gender and labor do not simply travel throughout diverse communities and academic disciplines in the U.S., but they also travel globally, generating significant connections with other fields.  With this conference, we will have an opportunity to examine the body of activist and scholarly feminist work on women and labor.  What aspect of labor continues to be the struggle that women share across the race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality divide?   How might we begin to talk about women and labor without collapsing the multicultural, heterogeneous, global and transnational within us?  How have women contributed their labor artistically, culturally, and politically, in our communities as well as around the globe?  What challenges do women and girls across races, classes, religions, and cultures face in an increasingly

 globalizedworld?  Going forward, what might labor as a site of knowledge production further benefit our work and struggle in the human community?  What are some of the best practices?   

 

We welcome submissions for PANELS, POSTERS, ART DISPLAYS, AND SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

 

In keeping with the conference theme, suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Women, Technology, & Labor                                       

Motherhood & Labor

Women & Labor Movements                                         

Working Women and Childcare/Elder Care

Sexism& Racism in Labor                                              

Single, Childless Women’s Labor

Women and Sex Labor                                                 

Women, Labor, & Heterosexist Privilege

Women & Child Labor                                                 

Women’s Labor & Leadership

Gender, Race, Class & Labor                                         

Women, Health, and Labor

Women’s Movements & Labor                                      

Ethnography & Women & Labor

21st Century Slavery                                                       

Women, Labor, Academe

Then and Now: Women and Labor                               

Women’s Labor and the Arab Awakening

Women, Community, & Labor                                      

Women and Care Economy

Indigenous Women and Labor                                       

Women & Domestic Labor                   

Women & Emotional/Care Work                                  

Women and Unions

Women, Labor, and Resistance                                       

Women and Volunteerism

Women, Immigration, Labor                                         

Women’s Labor in Fashion Industries

Labor and Violence against Women                                 

Women & Food Production/Industries  

Women and Unemployment                                          

Girls, Young Women and Labor Market

Wage Gap and Glass Ceiling                                          

Women, Labor, and Artistic Expression

Women, Labor, Incarceration                                         

Women’s Labor across/between Worlds

 

We also invite your ideas and suggestions.  Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives for the collective re-examination of narratives on women and labor.  Expect serious fun through meals and performance, with women, girls and their allies speaking of their struggles and power.

 

 

Submission Deadline: Postmarked by December 1, 2011

 

Please submit proposals and supporting materials to:

 

Women’s Studies Conference Committee

Women’s Studies Program, EN B 229

Southern Connecticut State University

501 Crescent Street

New Haven, CT 06515

 

Or via E-mail to:

 

womenstudies@southernct.edu, with attention to Conference Committee.  If you have any questions, please call the Women’s Studies office at (203) 392-6133.

Please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information. Panel Proposals are welcome.

 

The Annual Women’s Studies Conference at SCSU is self-supporting; all presenters can pre-register at the discounted presenter’s fee.  The fee includes all costs for supporting materials, entrance to keynote events, and all meals and beverage breaks. 

 

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Language, Literature and the Practice of Democracy

Posted on May 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 15-18, 2012

Rochester, New York – Hyatt Rochester

Host Institution:  St. John Fisher College

Keynote speaker:  Jennifer Egan, 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Visit from the Goon Squad

 

Language, Literature and the Practice of Democracy

 

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum in her recent book, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, observes that “[d]istracted by the pursuit of wealth, we increasingly ask our schools to turn out useful profit-makers rather than thoughtful citizens.  Under pressure to cut costs, we prune away just those parts of the educational endeavor that are crucial to preserving a healthy society.”  The manner by which the humanities cultivate cross-cultural sympathy becomes then “a particularly dangerous enemy of obtuseness and moral obtuseness is necessary to carry out programs of economic development that ignore inequality.  It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.”

 

This conflict between the pragmatic or technical over the intellectual also interested Paul Freire, who discussed the integration of conformity into the curriculum over “the practice of freedom;” bell hooks, who insisted that those of us “who continue to work to educate for the practice of freedom, see first-hand the ways that democratic education is being undermined as the interests of big business and corporate capitalism encourage students to see education solely as a means to achieve material success;” Henry Giroux, who certainly spoke of the political function of the educator; and John Dewey, who argued that “democracy has to be born anew in each generation, and education is its midwife.”

 

This panel seeks to understand the relationship between the humanities and the practice of democracy, focusing on the tendency in U.S. education to privilege the pragmatic/technical over the intellectual.  How do we assess the role of the humanities at this moment?  How do we ensure the centrality of the humanities in the college curriculum?  How do we express or bear witness to the humanities as integral to the practice of democracy?  What is the role of feminist theory and feminist pedagogy in the humanities and across democratic institutions?

 

Please forward questions and abstracts (500 words) to:

 

Elizabeth M. Huergo, Ph.D.

English Professor

Montgomery College

Elizabeth.Huergo@montgomerycollege.edu<mailto:Elizabeth.Huergo@montgomerycollege.edu>

 

Deadline:  September 30, 2011

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation

Email address

Postal address

Telephone number

A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

 

The 43rd annual convention will be held March 15-18th in Rochester, New York, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, located minutes away from convenient air, bus, and train transportation options for attendees. St. John Fisher College will serve as the host college, and the diverse array of area institutions are coordinating with conference organizers to sponsor various activities, such as celebrated keynote speakers, local events, and fiction readings.

 

Building upon the excellence of past NeMLA conferences, the association continues to grow as a vibrant community of scholars, thanks to the wide array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at every venue. Compact yet diverse, Rochester also boasts important historical connections; it is the site of the home, publication operations, and orations of Frederick Douglass, where he edited the North Star, as well as his eponymous periodical, and delivered the speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Visitors can explore the houses of abolitionist, suffragette, and reformer Susan B. Anthony and the inventor of devices popularizing photography, George Eastman, as well as shopping and eateries; attendees will also be within reach of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, known for its local wineries.

 

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.  http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/cfp.html

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ALA/AASL Educators of Library Media Specialists Section (ELMSS)

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Deadline extended to July 15, 2011. The ALA/AASL Educators of Library Media Specialists Section (ELMSS) of the American Association of School Librarians invites submissions for papers to be reviewed through a blind, juried process. Selected papers will be presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the American Association of School Librarians to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from October 27-30, 2011. Educational reform of instructional practice is on the cusp of restoring a balance between authentic teaching and assessment for accountability. The Common Core Standards movement and a new generation of assessments from the U.S. Department of Education will replace teaching to multiple choice tests that narrow curriculum content and constrain critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Papers that are selected position school libraries in the context of educational reform that addresses issues such as, but not limited to, emerging adolescent literacy (grades 4-12); digital literacy; differentiation and intervention to address individual learning needs; collaboration for teaching and learning; critical thinking, innovation, and creativity; and learning content and competencies through inquiry. Papers should be original research that focuses on school library practice and related subjects, or school librarianship, and be within a 5,000 word limit using APA style. Research in progress that reports preliminary findings is accepted. Please submit papers in electronic form to Carol Gordon, carol.gordon@rutgers.edu. Deadline for submission is July 15, 2011 at 11:59 EST. Papers for presentations will be accepted and evaluated on an on-going basis until the deadline. Authors of the selected papers will be contacted on August 1, 2011.

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Technology Integration and Foundations for Effective Technology Leadership

Posted on May 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Proposal Submission Deadline: July 30, 2011

A book edited by

Dr. Shuyan Wang & Dr. Taralynn Hartsell

The University of Southern Mississippi, USA

 

To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callforbookchapters/callforchapterdetails.aspx?callforcontentid=e8045db9-bc9d-4932-b316-696eb1c69ddf

 

Introduction

An effective technology leader should be a public advocate for the use of technology in various organizations, capable of providing guidance in various aspects of using technologies such as technology plans, professional development, academic and grant writing, and other responsibilities. A technology leader should be fully involved in creating a technology plan that provides direction for the successful integration of technology into the existing educational environment with an eye toward the future.  For the technology leader, facilitating and organizing professional training to faculty and staff members in keeping up with the development of technologies is a vital role. Professional development not only involves the actual training that educators receive for learning new skills and strategies, but also requires instruction that assist educators to impact student/classroom learning.  Among other responsibilities at research intensive institutions such as universities, technology leaders are expected to conduct research, write and publish manuscripts in peer-viewed journals, and secure external funding to promote technology integration.  Because of the high demands of today’s leaders, understanding how to effectively manage time as a professional is difficult.  Further, learning what each task encompasses is also difficult without some prior knowledge of the processes.  By better understanding each of these tasks, individuals will be able to manage their time more effectively and have a foundational knowledge to assist them with engaging in these activities. Full understanding of one’s responsibilities in the field is important for a technology leader to ensure successful technology integration.  Without knowledge of one’s roles and responsibilities in the position, performing routine tasks may become difficult.

This proposed book provides detailed information on these aspects.  The book will serve as a reference for technology professionals or leaders in the education field to make certain that he/she performs all of the tasks and obligations necessary.  As the technology leader reads through the chapters, he/she will obtain a sense of structure and basic information on designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating technology projects to ensure maximum success.

 

Objectives of the Book

                The objectives of this proposed book are two-fold.  One objective is that the technology professional will be able to identify and define theoretical aspects of technology leadership.  The proposed book will include sections that not only provide general information, but also the major components, procedures, and evaluations of creating a technology plan, conducting professional development, performing academic and grant writing, and discussing the responsibilities of the technology leader.  The second objective is to provide the technology leader with concepts, tools, strategies, and applications through reference citations.  These types of resources accommodate the theoretical aspects of the book as the technology professional practices the tasks that have been discussed.  In short, the book is intended to guide the new technology professional into performing all of the roles and responsibilities appropriated to him/her.  Furthermore, the book serves as a systematic introduction to the profession as a whole for those studying to become technology leaders in education.

 

Target Audience

                The target audience includes technology coordinators, technology specialists, educators, trainers, and administrators working in K-20 settings in various disciplines (e.g., education, corporate training, instructional technology, workforce development).  Almost every institution has someone who acts as a technology leader from organizing technology training to employees toward developing complete technology systems (e.g., computer labs, networks/telecommunications).  Thus, this reference book would be applicable to anyone who is in this role of integrating technology for teaching, training, or learning purposes.  The book may also be adopted for support of educational technology related subjects in advanced graduate degrees.  Graduate programs in administration or instructional technology would be likely audiences for this book because of its broad content.

 

The book will be divided into six sections, each consisting of 4-6 chapters.  The book will cover topics such as creating technology plans, planning for professional development activities, writing grants and academic publications, and defining responsibilities that a technology leader would need to fulfill. This book evolved as a graduate course project in which several students began writing chapters for the book that helped dictate the book outline.  Nonetheless, several topics in this area are still missing in addition to the ones proposed by the student authors.  To make certain that a complete volume of topics are covered in this important area of technology leadership, we are looking for authors to write about these areas (or additional ones proposed by the author).  Some topics given below are very general, and we encourage authors to write chapters that may focus on one particular aspect.

 

Section One: Defining Technology Leadership

                Historical Evolvement of Technology Leaders

                Roles Technology Leaders Hold in Various Organizations

                Role in Managing and Supporting Technology

 

Section Two: Technology Planning for the Technology Leader

Definition and Development of a Technology Plan

Needs Assessment/Goals and Objectives

Implementation Process of the Technology Plan

Assessment, Evaluation, and Revision of the Technology Plan

Analysis and Comparison of Existing Technology Plans

 

Section Three: Leading the Professional Development

Professional Development for Technology Integration

Designing a Professional Development Program

Implementing the Professional Development Program

Evaluating and Reviewing the Professional Development Program

Analysis and Comparison of Effective and Non-effective Programs

 

Section Four: Academic and Grant Writing

Educational Research Considerations for the Technology Leader

Academic Writing and Publishing for the Technology Leader

Securing External Funding

Dissemination of Practice

 

Section Five: Responsibilities of a Technology Leader

Roles of a Technology Leader

Evaluation, Management, and Support

Personnel Management

Handling Unexpected Problems and Issues

Leadership Issues Concerning Instructional Technology

 

Section Six: Trends and Future Directions

Case Studies of Technology Implementation by Technology Leaders

Future Directions in Technology Leadership

Professional Resources for Technology Leaders

 

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 30, 2011, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by August 15, 2011 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 30, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

 

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2012.

 

Important Dates

July 30, 2011:                      Proposal Submission Deadline

August 15, 2011:               Notification of Acceptance

November 30, 2011:       Full Chapter Submission

January 15, 2012:              Review Results Returned

February 15, 2012:           Revised Chapter Submission

March 15, 2012:                Final Acceptance Notifications

April 15, 2012:                    Final Chapter Submission

May 30, 2012:                    Final Deadline

 

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) by mail to:

 

Dr. Shuyan Wang            

Associate Professor

The University of Southern Mississippi

Department of Technology Education

118 College Drive #5036

Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001

Phone: 601-266-4446

Fax:   601-266-5957

Email: shuyan.wang@usm.edu

 

Dr. Taralynn Hartsell      

Associate Professor

The University of Southern Mississippi

Department of Technology Education

118 College Drive #5036

Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001

Phone: 601-266-4446

Fax:   601-266-5957

Email: taralynn.hartsell@usm.edu

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Student Usability in Educational Software and Games: Improving Experiences

Posted on May 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

Call for Chapters

 

Editors:

Dr. Carina S. González
University of La Laguna, Spain

Proposals Submission Deadline: May 31, 2011
Full Chapters Due: July 21, 2011
Submission Date: November 15, 2011

 

URL: http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callforbookchapters/callforchapterdetails.aspx?callforcontentid=6f910602-3213-4bbb-bba7-8ca7affe13a8

 

Introduction

Usability is a key factor in the ability of students to efficiently and effectively acquire knowledge and skills from interactive systems. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) provides a set of concepts and methodologies that has advanced our understanding and design of interactive systems, especially ones based on computers, devices and displays. The design of e-learning systems should take into account the characteristics, needs and abilities of users who interact with the virtual learning environments.

Educators increasingly are using sophisticated computer games to snag and hold the interest of the “digital natives” in their classrooms. The aim of educational games is to facilitate the player’s experience, meet desired objectives, and allow users to engage in education while they are enjoying themselves. Educational games seem to put learners in the role of decision maker and give them immediate feedback on their action and decisions, inviting exploration and experimentation.

Well-designed educational computer games share characteristics with effective e-learning environments, and can also be evaluated and designed using HCI principals. Like the design of e-learning systems and other virtual environments, the design of games must take users into account. For example, elements in playability–including challenge, strategy, pace, balance, control, and progress tracking–occupy a central role in video-game design, attracting users and engaging them in play. While a heuristic may help in design, user testing is essential for measuring success.

Also, both e-learning systems and games are being transformed as applications are developed for new environments (like virtual immersive learning environments, video-conferencing) and devices (including mobiles and iPads). These technologies may change patterns of interaction and make ubiquitous learning possible.

Objective of the Book

This book covers the new models of interaction and HCI paradigms applied to learning environments, focusing on the usability design and evaluation of learning systems and educational game environments.

This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area.  It will help experts of the area of HCI, learning systems and educational video-games improve their understanding of student experiences with new learning-gaming environments and allow researchers and developers to share techniques for the design and evaluation of educational games and interactive systems.  

Target Audience

The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of learning and gaming systems in various disciplines, e.g.  computer science and information technology,  information and communication sciences, education, graphic design, video-games, sociology, and others. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support to professionals and researchers–particularly those who specialize in HCI, Computer Science, and educational systems–in different types of work communities and environments.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Student model (usability/playability/learnability)- conceptual framework
  • Interaction model in learning-gaming environment
  • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in virtual worlds and games
  • Immersive learning
  • Usability in e-learning systems
  • Usability in educational game environments
  • User-Centered Design in learning-gaming systems
  • Designing and evaluating educational computer games
  • Usability in new environments (virtual immersive learning environments, video-conference, …) and devices (mobiles, iPads, wii,…)
  • Mobile learning and ubiquitous learning
  • Adaptive learning interfaces
  • Adaptive interfaces to users with special needs
  • Techniques and technologies in learning-gaming systems
  • Evaluation of user experience in learning environments
  • Experiences with learning-gaming systems


Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 31, 2011, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2011 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 21, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published in 2012 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

Important Dates

May 31, 2011:  Proposal Submission Deadline
June 15, 2011:    Notification of Acceptance
July 21, 2011:    Full Chapter Submission
October 15, 2011:    Review Results Returned
November 15, 2011:    Final Chapter Submission

Editorial Advisory Board Members:

Aurora Vizcaino Barceló. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (España)
Beatriz Barros. Universidad de Málaga (España)
Carina Soledad González González. Universidad de La Laguna (España)
Carine Webber. Universy of Caxias do Sul. (Brasil)
César Alberto Collazos Ordóñez. Universidad de Cauca (Colombia)
Cristian Ruso. Universidad Católica de Valparaiso (Chile)
Enric Mor Pera. Universidad Oberta de Catalunya (España)
Evelio González. Universidad de La Laguna (España)
Francisco Gutierrez Vela. Universidad de Granada (España)
Ivon Arroyo. University of Massachussent (USA)
José Luis González Sánchez. Universidad de Granada (España)
Lorenzo Moreno Ruiz. Universidad de La Laguna (España)
Maggie M. Wang. University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Manuel Castro Gil. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España)
Manuel Ortega Cantero. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (España)
Marcelo Milrad. Linnaeus University (LNU) (Sweden).
Marianne Björn. Linnaeus University (LNU) (Sweden)
Muriel Garreta. Universidad Oberta de Catalunya (España)
Natalia Padilla Zea. Universidad de Granada (España)
Pedro Toledo. Universidad de La Laguna (España)
Vanesa Muñoz. Universidad de La Laguna (España)

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):


Dr. Carina Soledad González González
Department of Eng. of Systems and Automatic and Architecture and Computer Technology.
UNIVERSITY OF LA LAGUNA
La Laguna-38204. Spain
Tel.: +34 922318284/87 • Fax: +34 922318288
E-mail: cjgonza@ull.es

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Semantic Web and Advancing Information Management through Semantic Technologies: Concepts and Ontologies

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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Chapter Proposal Deadline: June 5, 2011

A book edited by

 

Patricia Ord��ez de Pablos,

The University of Oviedo, Spain

 

Robert D Tennyson

University of Minnesota, USA

 

Jon G. Hall

The Open University, UK

 

Waldemar Karwowski

University of Central Florida, USA

 

Lucia Rapanotti

The Open University, UK

 

 

To be published by IGI Global

http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/authoreditorresources/callforbookchapters/callforchapterdetails.aspx?callforcontentid=232c43f4-af82-4628-9c77-9a3a3a376550

 

Introduction

The semantic web is a vision for the future in which web-content can be manipulated by automated systems for analysis and synthesis. Compare this to the current web where information is published mainly for human consumption andalthough web pages are readable, browsers are only able to interpret HTML markup to visualize the content. Since the three most difficult tasks (content interpretation, selection, and management) can currently only be done by humans, the semantic web will redress the balance between machine and human, bringing these three most difficult tasks.

This book provides an introduction and in-depth analysis of the important concepts which underpin this change. It covers semantics: the technologies; the deep web; reasoning; content searching; voice-video-speech (VVS) searching; multimedia;  social media, domain-oriented applications; and others.

The subject area is a combination of Web Semantic, Business, Management, and Information Systems.

               

Objective of the Book

The book intends to be an international platform to bring together practitioners, academics, researchers, decision makers, those in government, policy makers and practitioners from different backgrounds to share new theories, research findings and case studies, enhancing understanding and collaboration in semantic web and the role of information technologies and analyse recent developments in theory and practice.

 

Indicative content

Much innovation has occurred, but much remains to be achieved, to underpin the semantic web vision and to bring its arrival forward. Currently, key technologies include those for the fine grained description of electronically served content. With fine grained descriptions, automated processing is possible. One proposed vocabulary is RDF, which enables the description of resources and the relationships between them. The main point of RDF is that the relationships between resources are globally identified by URIs. The semantic web approach breaks the concept of a web page as the smallest unit of information to enable the creation of resource descriptions with finer granularity. For example, instead of the homepage of a person, it would be possible to refer to the phone number of that person. In the case of textual information, that break-up is more affordable, although not easy, given that it is possible to access to paragraphs, words, etc. facilitating syntactic searches from keywords. In this way, traditional search engines do a reasonably good job to access text based information.

 

In this way it is possible to establish standardised relationships schemas which reflect the definition of concepts and relationships between them. To that end RDF Schema and afterwards OWL, were developed. OWL has been developed with the goal to provide a common language for ontology definition and has acquired some popularity in the knowledge representation field. It is mainly based on the Description Logic formalism, a subset of first order predicate logic. The development of ontologies in a decentralized way will facilitate the integration of data from different sources and different kinds of applications and there are already a number of ontologies for different purposes and domains.

 

In other areas, such as multimedia information, the minimum unit of information is much more difficult to define and challenges remain to produce tools that index for use the contents of, say, an image or video. It is necessary to provide other means to add semantics to these kinds of resources.

 

Target Audience

The audience for such a book

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Recommended topics

 

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

o             Digital libraries

o             Hypertext and hypermedia semantic

o             Information security in semantic processing

o             Knowledge Management

o             Languages (RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, etc)

o             Learning (individual, group, organizational level, industry-academia)

o             Ontology for semantic interoperability

o             Ontology learning

o             Ontology mapping

o             Ontology visualization

o             Ontology-based evaluation

o             Progressive ontologies

o             Scalability to the Web level

o             Semantic applications/platforms/tools

o             Semantic blogs

o             Semantic content searching

o             Semantic deep web

o             Semantic interfaces

o             Semantic interoperability

o             Semantic multimedia

o             Semantic networking

o             Semantic reasoning

o             Semantic social media

o             Semantic wikis

o             Semantic-based pruning

o             Semantics harmonization

o             Standard activities

 

The book will be structured into 6 main sections:

 

A) Semantic Web Concepts and Frameworks

B) Semantic Technologies

C) Semantic Multimedia

D) Semantic Deep Web

E) Semantic Web Applications

F) Challenges and Opportunities for the Future

 

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 5, 2011, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter.  Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 15, 2011 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.  Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 30, 2011.  All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.  Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

 

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints.  For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.  This publication is anticipated to be released in 2012.

 

Important Dates

June 5, 2011:                                    Book Chapter Proposal Submission

June 15, 2011:                         Review Results Returned

July 30, 2011                                     Full Chapter Submission

September 10, 2011                        Review Results Returned

 

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to:

 

Dr.  Patricia Ordo�ez de Pablos

University of Oviedo, Spain

patriop@uniovi.es

 

With CC to

 

Robert D. Tennyson

University of Minnesota, USA

rdtennyson@gmail.com

 

Jon G. Hall

The Open University, UK

J.G.Hall@open.ac.uk

 

Waldemar Karwowski

University of Central Florida, USA

wkar@ucf.edu

 

Lucia Rapanotti

The Open University, UK

L.Rapanotti@open.ac.uk

 

 

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