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E-Learn 2008

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

Advance Program / Registration:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/advprog.htm

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

November 17-21, 2008 * Las Vegas, Nevada
(Riviera Hotel & Convention Center)

FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

** Submission Deadline: September 8, 2008 **

Organized by:
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
(http://www.aace.org)
Co-sponsored by:
International Journal on E-Learning
(http://www.aace.org/pubs/IJEL)
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“The International Forum for Researchers, Developers, and Practitioners to Learn
about the Best Practices/Technology in Education, Government, Healthcare, and Business”

** What are your colleagues saying about E-Learn conferences? **
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/testimonials.htm

COLOR POSTER–E-Learn 2008 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb)
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/EL08poster.pdf

>> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) <<

1. Submission Information, Deadline Sept. 8:
Call for Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm
Submission Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm
Presenter Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge

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

4. Products/Services Showcases & Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/corporate.htm

5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs
6. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm

7. Las Vegas, Nevada: http://www.aace.org/conf/cities/lasvegas/defaultEL.htm
8. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm

INTRODUCTION
More info: http://www.aace.org/conf/eLearn/Intro.htm
E-Learn, the premiere international, non-commercial conference in the field, spans all
disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,000 attendees
from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend E-Learn and submit
proposals for presentations.

INVITATION:
This Final Call for Participation is offered for those who were:
– unable to meet the first deadline for submissions in April, or
– were not ready to present a finished paper or project, or
– have a work-in-progress topic to present, and
– do not yet have a proposal accepted for presentation.

All presentation proposals are reviewed by three of the respected, international Executive Advisory Board (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/exec.htm) and Program Committee, based on merit and the perceived value for attendees. Accepted presentations are included in the conference program, Proceedings (book and CD-ROM formats) and the digital library, EdITLib–Education and Information Library, http://www.EdITLib.org/

We invite you to attend the E-Learn Conference and submit proposals for
these presentation categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm

E-LEARN IS UNIQUE AND A MUST TO ATTEND:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/unique.htm
http://www.aace.org/conf/eLearn/MustAttend.htm
E-Learn is an innovative collaboration between the top public and private academic researchers, developers, education and business professionals, and end users from the Corporate, Healthcare, Government, and Higher Education sectors offering a unique international forum to discuss the latest issues, strategies, applications, development, and research, to explore new technologies, and to identify solutions for today’s challenges related to online learning.

E-Learn is THE essential resource to make international connections for collaboration with others who may share similar problems as well as those offering solutions.

E-LEARN KEY FEATURES
More info: http://www.aace.org/conf/eLearn/KeyFeatures.htm
The E-Learn Conference offers attendees a complete educational experience, with opportunities for collaboration and networking among leaders and peers working to make effective e-learning a reality. E-Learn offers varied sessions designed to produce effective results for all types of learning styles. From pre-conference tutorials to paper presentations to informal discussions, and more than 600 concurrent sessions, you are given the content you need by knowledgeable presenters and peers–all in one conference!

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
* Keynote Speakers
* Invited Panels/Speakers
* Papers
* Best Practice Sessions
* Roundtables
* Demonstrations/Posters
* Research/Technical Showcases
* Products/Services Showcases
* Tutorials/Workshops

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
– For Call for Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm
– Submission guidelines and Web form: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm
– For Presentation and AV Guidelines: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge

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

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics as they relate to the e-Learning and the technologies supporting e-Learning.

1. Sectors or Application Domains:
General & Cross-Domain
Corporate
Government
Health Care
Higher Education
Informal Learning (Museums, Communities, Homes)
K-12
Military Training
Professional Associations & Non-Profits

2. Major Topics relating to or technologically supporting E-Learning:
Content Development
Evaluation
Implementation Examples and Issues
Instructional Design
Policy Issues
Research
Social and Cultural Issues
Standards and Interoperability
Tools and Systems

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm
The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful
activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.

PRODUCTS/SERVICES SHOWCASES & PRESENTATIONS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/corporate.htm
Organizations have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their e-learning related
products and services in through Products/Services Showcases & Presentations.

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

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

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

FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm
The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be
approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $465 U.S. (non-members).
Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions
except tutorials. The conference dinner (if offered) will be an extra fee.

All conference sessions will be held at the Riviera Hotel & Casino Convention Center (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/hotel.htm) located in the heart of Las Vegas shows, shopping, dining, and attractions. Special discount hotel have been obtained for E-Learn participants at $129 (single/double).

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Experience the Shows, Dining, Shopping, Attractions, & Tours!
http://www.aace.org/conf/cities/lasvegas/defaultEL.htm

Las Vegas, an ever-changing fantasy-land of a city, has seen unbelievable expansion since it emerged from the desert 100 years ago. Las Vegas continues to build upon its reputation as a vibrant showcase for the extraordinary. This is the city that attracts more than 38 million visitors a year by offering the grandest hotels, the biggest stars in entertainment, the highest caliber of award-winning chefs and master sommeliers, and, of course, the brightest lights.

Las Vegas offers unmatched entertainment. While planning an evening of entertainment, look to the growing roster of gourmet restaurants and unparalleled wine and food adventures in Las Vegas. A host of fine dining and lifestyle magazines have honored the city for its fantastic fare and hailed individual restaurants for their exquisite cuisine,

A shoppers paradise. Drawing an influx of designers and upscale specialty boutiques, Las Vegas has become one of the premium world-class shopping destinations in the country.

It’s not just a conference. it’s also a vacation! So plan to join us in Las Vegas for E-Learn 2008, a great conference in one of the world’s greatest destinations.

For further Las Vegas information, see:
http://www.visitlasvegas.com

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

Final Call Submissions: Sept. 8, 2008
Authors Notified: Sept. 15, 2008
Proceedings File Due: Sept. 24, 2008
Early Registration: Sept. 24, 2008
Conference: Nov. 17-21, 2008

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

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

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

Gender, Food, and the Underground Economy

Special Issue edited by Psyche Williams-Forson, University of Maryland College Park

Food Studies explores all aspects of relationships between food, culture, and society. The movement of people and capital around the world necessitates that we explore the ways in which women interact with food through varying enterprises. Many of these activities are considered off the books or part of a shadow or underground economy. This alternative economic space usually involves otherwise law-abiding citizens who seek to provide for their families in ways that fall outside the formal economy. These women and men may be avoiding taxes or simply choosing to render services without acquiring the proper licenses or food sanitation permits. Whether they are bootleggers from the early twentieth-century, housewives who make tortillas at home and sell them to neighbors, women and women who sell home-cooked meals from non-authorized street stands, waitresses who underreport the night’s tips, or undocumented immigrants working in the food sector, these people engage in a vital and sophisticated—aalbeit illegal—set of practices.
Submissions on women and/or men working in the underground food economy are sought for a special issue of Food and Foodways guest edited by Psyche Williams-Forson. We seek previously unpublished essays from all fields of the humanities and social sciences consisting of original scholarship on women who work with food in shadow economies. We especially favor research that speaks to an interdisciplinary audience and that presents arguments based on examination of data.

Papers should be twenty-five to thirty pages including references, word-processed double spaced, with pages numbered consecutively and margins of at least one inch on all sides. Papers should be written in clear, accessible prose, cite relevant literature, and include an abstract of no more than 150 words.

Submissions are due January 31, 2009 by email (attached as a Word document) to pwforson@umd.edu. If you would prefer to send by snail mail, please send to: Psyche Williams-Forson, Ph.D., Department of American Studies, University of Maryland College Park, 2103 Holzapfel Hall, College Park, Maryland 20742. Feel free to contact me for further information or with questions regarding ideas for submissions.

Editor bio: Psyche Williams-Forson is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. She is Humanities Book Review Editor for Food and Foodways, a refereed, interdisciplinary, and international journal devoted to publishing original scholarly articles on the history and culture, and the author of Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. She is currently at work on a book project involving African American women who worked in unofficial food economies from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

ALISE Research SIG Panel

Call for Papers for 2009 Conference in Denver, Jan. 20-23
Theme: Research Designs for LIS

Submit title and ~500 word abstract for papers describing emerging
research methodologies, innovative research designs, and other
imaginative research methods that have been or can be used in the LIS
field.

Selection criteria: 3 papers will be chosen to represent a range of research topics. Final presentations should be 20 minutes long.

Please send submissions no later than June 15, 2008
Dr. Susan Burke, University of Oklahoma, sburke@ou.edu
or
Dr. Betsy Martens, University of Oklahoma, bvmartens@ou.edu

FETC, a division of 1105 Media Inc.,

January 21-24, 2009
Orange County Convention Center
Orlando, FL

FETC, a division of 1105 Media Inc., is one of the largest, most successful conferences in the United States devoted to educational technology. The conference program is designed so educators and administrators have an opportunity to learn how to integrate different technologies across the curriculum – from kindergarten to college – while being exposed to the latest hardware, software and successful strategies on student technology use. FETC is designed for teachers, principals and deans, district administrators, curriculum designers, media specialists, technology directors and various other educators.

Gain exposure for your work, your school and your district, and benefit from in-depth discussions with your peers when you become a speaker at FETC 2009, January 21 – 24, 2009 in Orlando, FL. Share successful classroom practices, creative teaching and learning solutions, research, policies and products that show current or future promise for K-12 education.

FETC, a division of 1105 Media, Inc., is recognized nationally as a venue where the best educators come to share their strategies, methods and best practices with their colleagues.

FETC welcomes applications to present from education professionals representing all levels, content areas and specialties, as well as business and industry experts. If accepted, your presentation will be scheduled as one of the 55-minute sessions planned for the conference.

Click HERE for complete information on submission guidelines and access to the electronic application form:

DON’T DELAY
Deadline for submissions is June 20, 2008.

For additional information on FETC 2009 visit:
http://www.fetc.org/

Information and Communications Technology Law

Invites submissions for a Special Issue: Government-held Information, Privacy and Civic Access

Governments are most frequently the largest collectors of data within their jurisdictions, and often that data collection and storage is financially supported with public taxes. How governments manage and make available that information when
requests are made by non-government parties varies in each country. As the data-sharing world finds new and multi-platform ways to network, the variations of legal access to government-held information create both opportunities and difficulties.
This special issue will collect the state of access to government-held information with special attention to concerns for civilian privacy and civic activists’ oversight of government operations.
Submissions should conform to normal journal specifications noted http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cictauth.asp

Please send submission no later than August 1, 2008
Prof. D.L. Rabina
Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science,
144 West 14th Street, 6th Floor,
New York, NY 10011-7301
or by email drabina@pratt.edu

18th Annual Women’s Studies Conference “Girls’ Culture & Girls’ Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood

INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORKCFP Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 12, 2008 The 18th Annual Women’s Studies Conference “Girls’ Culture & Girls’ Studies: Surviving, Reviving, Celebrating Girlhood” To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University Friday and Saturday, October 17 and 18, 2008 The 18th Annual Women’s Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University explores girlhood. What does it mean to be a girl? Who defines girlhood in an age when puberty and sexualization are happening at younger ages? How do girls assert their own identity in an increasingly medicated and consumerist culture which targets girls as a prime audience? Why are U.S. girls preoccupied with perfection? What challenges do girls across races, classes, religions, nations, and cultures face in an ever more globalized world? What is the relationship between girls and feminism? What effect can feminism have on constructions of boyhood and masculinity and how in turn can this affect girls? In the 18th annual SCSU Women’s Studies conference, we will take a close look at girls’ culture and girls’ studies, among the most vibrant areas in women’s studies. The Conference Committee invites individuals, groups, scholars, feminists, activists, girls and all to
submit proposals that address topics related to all aspects of girlhood. Proposal Format: Faculty, students, staff, administrators, community activists from all disciplines and fields are invited to submit proposals for individual papers, complete sessions, panels, or round tables. Poster sessions, performance pieces, video recordings, and other creative works are also encouraged. For individual papers, please submit a one-page abstract. For complete panels, submit a one-page abstract for each presentation plus an overview on the relationship among individual components. For the poster sessions and art work, submit a one-page overview. All proposals must include speakers’ name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information (address, E-mail, and telephone number). Please also indicate preference for Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, or Saturday afternoon; all attempts will be made to honor schedule requests. Panels: Each 75 minute session usually includes three presenters and a session moderator, but individual presenters may request an entire session for a more substantial paper or presentation. Presenters are encouraged, though not required, to form their own panels. The conference committee will group individual proposals into panels and assign a moderator. Please indicate in your contact information if you are willing to serve as a moderator. Posters, Art Displays, and Slide Presentations: A poster presentation consists of an exhibit of materials that report research activities or informational resources in visual and summary form. An art display consists of a depiction of feminist concerns in an artistic medium. Both types of presentations provide a unique platform that facilitates personal discussion of work with interested colleagues and allows meeting attendees to browse through highlights of current research. Please indicate in your proposal your anticipated needs in terms of space, etc. In keeping with the conference theme, suggested topics include but are not limited to: Girls and Pop Culture Construction of Girlhood Media and Girls’ Culture Girls & Cutting/Self-Mutilation Politics of Girls’ Studies Girls & Leadership Women’s Studies & Girls’ Studies Girls & Child Labor Race & Class in Girls’ Studies Girls & Performance Coming of Age Globally Gender Research & Girls Body Image and Girls Girls & Disabilities Girls & Sexuality Girls & Ink. Human Trafficking & Girls Girls & Religion Indigenous Women and Girls Human Rights of Girls Girls & Sports Chick Lit Girls & Resistance Globalization and Girlhood Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Girls’ Studies Construction of “Tween” Agers/Girls Violence against Girls & Women Girls and Gangs Girl Power and Politics Transnational Adoption of Girls Girls’ Studies in Academe Girl Power and Feminism/Anti-Feminism Growing up Incarcerated Girls and Grassroots Activism Girls across/between Worlds Parenting/Raising Girls American Girls and Beyond Girls as Parents Reviving Ophelia, Surviving Ophelia, Resisting Ophelia Representations of Girls We also invite your ideas and suggestions. Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives in order to construct feminist renditions of girls’ cultures, histories, and representations. Expect fun through meals, performance, and poetry slam, with girls and their allies speaking of their struggles and power. 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 email 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. The Annual Women’s Studies Conference at SCSU is self-supporting; all presenters can pre-register at the discounted presenter’s fee, not exceeding $110.00 for both days, $60.00 for one day. The fee includes all costs for supporting materials, entrance to keynote events, and all meals and beverage breaks. Submission Deadline: Postmarked by Thursday, June 12, 2008 Notification of Committee Decision: Mailed by Friday, July 18, 2008 ********************************************************************** Yi-Chun Tricia Lin Director/Associate Professor, Women’s Studies Program Vice President, National Women’s Studies Association Past President, Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages Southern Connecticut State University E-mail: liny4@southernct.edu Office: (203) 392-6133; (203) 392-6864 Fax: (203) 392-6723 www.southernct.edu/womensstudies ***********************************************************************