Monthly Archives: November 2016

Please consider contributing by submitting an article in the area “Educational Technologies” or any other included in the 15th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2017 (http://www.2017iiisconf.org/eista), to be held on July 8 – 11, 2017, in Orlando, Florida, USA, jointly with:

  • The 11th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics, and Informatics: IMSCI 2017
  • The 21st World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2017
  • The 10th International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation: IMETI 2017

The respective web sites of the above events and the others being jointly organized can be found at the general CFP posted at: http://www.2017iiisconf.org/cfp-summer2017.asp

To submit your article, please click the “Authors” tab on the conference website. Submissions for face-to-face and virtual presentations are both accepted.

The deadlines for this second CFP are the following:

  • December 7th, 2016: Article submissions
  • December 7th, 2016: Invited session proposals
  • January 18th, 2017: Notifications of acceptance
  • February 14th, 2017: Uploading of camera-ready or final version

IMSCI/EISTA and all its collocated events are being indexed by Elsevier’s SCOPUS since 2005. The 2017 proceedings will also be sent to Elsevier’s SCOPUS.

Authors of early submissions to EISTA 2017 (or any of its collocated events) and, consequently, of early acceptances and registrations will be:

  1. Considered in the selection of keynote speakers because this selection will need additional reviews.
  2. Invited for submitting a second paper on special topics; which, if accepted, will require no additional fee for its presentation. These topics, which will be selected by the Organizing Committee, are very important topics, but are not necessarily among the usual grants priorities. The IIIS will finance this kind of papers which are important for many authors but are not among the priorities of policy makers in organizations which might financially be supporting participations in conferences.

Details about the following issues have also been included at the URLs given above:

  • Pre- and post-conference virtual sessions.
  • Virtual participation.
  • Two-tier reviewing combining double-blind and non-blind methods.
  • Access to reviewers’ comments and evaluation average.
  • Waiving the registration fee of effective invited session organizers.
  • Best papers awards.
  • Publication of best papers in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI), which is indexed in EBSCO, Cabell, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), and Google Scholar, and listed in Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities and in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory. (All papers to be presented at the conference will be included in the conference printed and electronic proceedings)

Please consider forwarding to the appropriate groups who might be interested in submitting contribution to the above mentioned collocated events. New information and deadlines are posted on the conference and the IIIS web site (especially at the URL provided above).

Best regards,

EISTA 2017 Organizing Committee

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ALCTS/LITA Library Linked Data Interest Group (LLD-IG)

The ALCTS/LITA Library Linked Data Interest Group (LLD-IG) seeks proposals for its meeting on Saturday, January 21st at 8:30-10:00 AM during the 2017 ALA
Midwinter Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. LLD-IG facilitates active
conversation among librarians and information professionals to discuss
projects, ideas, and practical use cases related to library linked data. We
welcome proposals that offer practical applications of library linked data and
encourage audience participation and discussion.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
• Linked data projects in libraries, museums, archives, and other
information communities.
• Developing tools to support cataloging, organizing, browsing, and
discovering resources using linked data.
• Developing ontologies or linked data applications.
• Collaborative linked data projects among diverse communities.

Please email proposals to Jee Davis (j.davis@austin.utexas.edu) and Anne
Washington (awashington@uh.edu) by November 14th, 2016. Your proposal should
include:
•       Proposal title
•       Proposal description (up to 150 words)
•       Name and position of presenter

We will notify you by Wednesday, November 23rd, if your proposal has been
accepted. We look forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,
Jee Davis (Co-chair) and Anne Washington (Co-chair)

InSITE 2017

Are you interdisciplinary in your thinking, international in your perspectives, and educational in your commitments?

Then attend the Informing Science + IT Education International Conference

InSITE 2017

Jul 31 – Aug 5 2017, Ho Chi Minh (Saigon), Vietnam http://InSITE.NU the best organized and most inclusive conference 

  • REVIEW: Please Join Our International Board of Reviewers (http://Volunteer.InSITE.nu) to provide mentoring feedback on three submissions during December – February
  •  ATTEND: Discounts for productive reviewers and for paying the registration fee early
  •  PRESENT: Submit your paper on Informing Science + IT Education (http://Submit.InSITE.nu).  Submit by Nov. 30 for best chance at fast-tracking for publication in an ISI journal, but quality paper are welcomed even after this target date.

New This Year: Tracks on

·         Pre-doctoral and New Researchers

·         Accounting Education

·         Digital Excellence: Impact, Inclusion, and Imagination

Tracks on

·         Bias, Misinformation, Disinformation

·         Case Method of Teaching

·         e-Skills and e-Inclusion

·         Technology Enhanced Learning Environments

·         The Art and Science of Informing

Your choice of three full-day workshops:

  • Discussion Cases
  • Blended Learning, and
  • Qualitative Analysis

The InSITE conference alumni often mention the conference as among the best-organized and most-supportive conference they have attended.

The conference begins with optional pre-conference networking opportunities that combine seeing the country, often with talks on country-specific topics of interest, with the hugely important chance to network with potential future research collaborators. The networking enables building the trust relationships needed to sustain long-distance research collaboration.

The conference itself combines tracks of presentations of research papers, plenary sessions that provide for keynote speakers and mini-workshops on topics related to your professional development.

The conference also includes your choice of full-day workshops on 1) Teaching Using Discussion Cases, 2) Blended Learning, and 3) Computer-Assisted Qualitative Analysis

New tracks this year

This year we introduce the opportunity for those without much experience in making research presentations (for example, doctoral students) to present their research in a supportive environment. In addition, we have a track on Accounting Education and on Digital Excellence

Fast-tracking of Best Accepted Papers to ISI journals

The Editors-in-Chief of ISI’s journals look over the reviews and the revised submissions and select the best papers for publication in their journals using fast-tracking.  Highest consideration for fast-tracking for publication in one of ISI  journals will go to papers submitted to the conference by November 30. At least one author must be a paid delegate to the conference.

All papers by conference delegates that are accepted are published in the conference proceedings, a peer reviewed serial.  Selected best papers are also published in one of the journals published by the Informing Science Institute.

Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gendered Disruptions in the 2016 Presidential Election and the Ghost of Susan B. Anthony

Call for Book Chapters:

*Editors:*

Christine Kray, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rochester
Institute of Technology (cakgss@rit.edu)

Hinda Mandell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Communication,
Rochester Institute of Technology

*Synopsis:*

Gendered disruptions with historical echoes played prominently into the
volatile 2016 presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump. The campaign featured historic elements from the beginning. It
marked the first time that a woman was nominated to lead a major political
party in the race for president of the United States. With the potential of
Clinton to crack the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” ritual activity
reached new levels at the Rochester, NY gravesite of Susan B. Anthony, the
nineteenth-century activist who dedicated her life’s work toward women’s
suffrage. Throughout the year, visitors paid tribute and left tokens of
gratitude, and in what has become a new Election Day tradition—propelled by
social media—on the day of the New York State primary in April 2016,
visitors affixed “I Voted” stickers to her tombstone. Plans were laid for
ceremonial gatherings at her gravesite on Election Day and the day after.

Throughout the 2008 primary campaign and again in 2015, Clinton appeared
reticent to position herself as a woman candidate. And yet, events pushed
gender front and center, conjuring up memories of earlier suffragist
struggles. In April 2016, Trump accused Clinton of “playing the woman
card.” In July, when Clinton accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination,
she noted that her mother had been born on the very day that Congress
passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which would give women the
right to vote. Then, just weeks before the election, after audio recordings
were released in which Donald Trump boasted of committing sexual assault,
and polls revealed that women were increasingly rejecting Trump’s
candidacy, a #RepealThe19th social media hashtag was created. While Anthony
had not lived to see the 19th Amendment ratified, she and her fellow
suffragists wrote the language that would enfranchise women in 1920. And
suddenly this nineteenth-century figure and the ideals she fought for
became increasingly relevant in an election that saw a woman candidate and
women voters as key players. The website, www.iwaited96years.com, features
women who were born before the ratification of the 19th Amendment who
intended to vote for Hillary Clinton. Video “history lessons” and memes
circulated on social media as contributors aimed to teach others about the
historical advances of women, implying that the work remains unfinished.

As an interdisciplinary project, this book invites contributions from
historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political theorists,
journalists, and media and public history scholars to investigate how
public memory of Susan B. Anthony and the 19th Amendment has shaped
narratives of the 2016 presidential election, and the ways in which the
campaign has brought fresh attention to her work and life. This book
project speaks to the ways in which politics are not merely pragmatic, but
are always enveloped in personal and historical imaginations. Through our
electoral engagement, conversations, and voting practices, we reach out to
revered historical figures, engage in practices of deep symbolic
significance, and position ourselves within a grand historical
trajectory. Possible
chapter topics include:

·      Susan B. Anthony’s grave as a place of pilgrimage during the
election season

·      Intersectionality of race and gender—for example, how the
complicated friendship of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass was
invoked in the competition between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

·      The #RepealThe19th social media hashtag

·      Suffragist fashion and Hillary Clinton’s sartorial choices

·      Bad hombres and “locker room talk”: Masculinist discourse and
spectacle

·      The role of women voters as potentially holding the balance of power
in this election

·      Efforts to disenfranchise women voters who support Clinton

·      Ways in which some women have coalesced around Clinton’s historic
nomination

·      Public memory of Susan B. Anthony, feminism and anti-feminism this
election season

·      Women who opposed the 19th Amendment and women supporters of Donald
Trump—Are there similarities in rhetoric, belief, or socio-economic
position?

·      Theorizing of feminism and misogyny in public spaces on the campaign
trail

·      Generations: Are younger women inspired by historical women’s rights
activists?

·      History lessons + social media: Positioning Clinton within a century
of women’s rights

·      “Nasty women,” “grab him by the ball-ots,” “pussy grabs back”

·      Would SBA have voted for HRC? A close reading of her writings and
speeches

·      Pronouncements from the (pro-life) Susan B. Anthony List about
Clinton’s candidacy

*Call for Chapters:*

We issue this Call for Chapters for a book intended for peer-reviewed
publication. We seek contributions that are appropriate for scholarly
audiences yet also accessible to undergraduate and public readers. If you
would like to participate in this volume, please send us (cakgss@rit.edu) a
500-word abstract by January 15, 2017, along with a bio not to exceed 250
words. We also welcome creative contributions, including fiction, poetry,
cartoons, photography and song. Completed chapters (of 5,000 words) would
need to be submitted by April 15, 2017. This book project has strong
interest from a Palgrave Macmillan editor with whom we have worked before. All
scholarship and submissions should be previously unpublished and not
under consideration elsewhere.

YTH Live -deadline Nov. 4

YTH Live is the premier conference for trailblazing technology that advances youth health and wellness. Each year the brightest minds in youth advocacy, health, and technology gather at YTH Live to showcase what works, share ideas and learnings, and launch new collaborations.

Join us from May 7-9, 2017 at Bespoke in San Francisco. Connect with vibrant thinkers, makers, and doers in the YTH Live community, and take what you learn to improve the lives of the youth you serve and support.

>> Register for YTH Live
>> Submit your abstract
>> FAQs about YTH Live
>> See photos from YTH Live 2016

Are you building a healthier future for youth? Got an innovate app, social media campaign, or other technology that improves the health of young people? Share what you’ve learned with our audience at YTH Live, the youth + tech + health conference. Abstracts are due Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. Please visit yth.org/live to learn more.

2017 ACRL-NEC Annual Conference

The Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter (http://www.acrlnec.org/)
invites you to submit a proposal to present at the 2017 ACRL-NEC Annual Conference
Reframing Librarianship in the 21st Century
Friday, May 12 @University of Vermont Conference Center, Burlington, VT.  
It is an era of reinvention for college and research libraries. Whether we work in cataloging and metadata, scholarly communication, archives, public services, instruction, or another area of librarianship, we have all heard a rhetoric of crisis, transformation, and rapid change applied to our work. The challenges we face have provided an opportunity to refocus on the foundations of our profession: our purpose and our areas of expertise. In reflecting on and redefining our work and ourselves, we are reframing librarianship for the 21st Century. This exciting topic will be kicked off by keynote Suzanne Wones, Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations at Harvard Library.
The Program Committee is interested in receiving proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and posters that speak to the following questions:
  • In this era of reinvention, how are we reframing ourselves, the work that we do, and our libraries?
  • How are we communicating around this shift within our institutions and beyond?

 

Topics might include, but are not limited to, the reframing of:
  • Our professional identities and roles within the library, on campus, and in society
  • The development and provision of library and archives collections to users
  • Cataloging and metadata practices
  • Efforts around diversity and inclusion in our profession and on our campuses
  • LIS education: Are we graduating technologically- and information-literate librarians?
  • Professional development, collaboration, training, and supervision
  • Research and publication in library and information science
  • Education and advocacy on issues of scholarly communication, copyright, and licensing
  • Public services: liaison, instruction, and reference work
  • Data services and the library’s role in research data management, data education, and open data
  • Assessment, and our role in broader institutional efforts around student success and retention, accreditation, and learning outcomes
  • The institutional context of the academic library, including institutional structures, cross-departmental collaborations, and faculty status issues

 

Staff, faculty, administrators, and students in all areas of librarianship are encouraged to submit proposals. 
To submit a proposal, follow this link: https://goo.gl/forms/DhpZH2UCJYCdXpeH2
The deadline for proposal submission is midnight on Dec 2, 2016.
Questions should be directed to the ACRL/NE CPC Programming Committee: 
acrlnec-cpc-prog-l@library.umass.edu

Expanding Library Relevancy: Innovation to Meet Changing Needs

Book Publisher: McFarland

Vera Gubnitskaia, co-editor. Contributor, Bringing the Arts into the Library (ALA, 2014); co-editor, Continuing Education for Librarians (McFarland, 2013); academic librarian, indexer.

Carol Smallwood, co-editor, Library’s Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); public library administrator, special, school librarian.

One or two chapters sought from U.S. practicing academic, public, school, special librarians, LIS faculty, on creative, practical how-to chapters, case studies, about libraries as learning centers, career and technology helpers, after-school programs, branding, and new ways to use libraries. It will fill a gap in the literature, share successes in broadening library service to fit changing patron needs.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted material. One, two, or three authors per chapter; each chapter by the same author(s) Compensation: one complimentary copy per 3,000-4,000 word chapter accepted no matter how many co-authors or if one or two chapters; author discount.

Please e-mail titles of proposed chapter(s) described in a few sentences by December 10, 2016, with brief bio on each author; place REL, Your Name on subject line: gubnitv11@gmail.com

 

Urban Library Journal (ULJ)

Call for Papers

Urban Library Journal (ULJ) is an open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal of research that addresses all aspects of urban libraries and librarianship.

Urban Library Journal invites submissions in broad areas such as public higher education, urban studies, multiculturalism, library and educational services to immigrants, preservation of public higher education, and universal access to World Wide Web resources. We welcome articles that focus on all forms of librarianship in an urban setting, whether that setting is an academic, research, public, school, or special library.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Reference and instruction in diverse, multicultural urban settings
  • Radical librarianship, social justice issues, and/or informed agitation
  • Intentional design / “library as space” in an urban setting
  • Physical and/or virtual accessibility issues
  • Open education resources in urban systems
  • Innovative collaboration between academic departments, other branches, or community partnerships
  • More!

Completed manuscript length should fall between 2,500 and 5,000 words. Full author guidelines can be found on the ULJ website: http://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj/author_guidelines.html

The submission period is open now and closes on January 1st, 2017.

For more information about ULJ and to see the latest issue: http://academicworks.cuny.edu/ulj.

Social and collaborative learning supported through technology (special issue) in BULLETIN OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGY

​​​​​Call For Articles – BULLETIN OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON LEARNING  TECHNOLOGY (ISSN 2306-0212) http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/bulletin
publication of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning
Technology (TCLT)

* Special Theme: Social and collaborative learning supported through
technology
* Deadline for submission: November 14, 2016
* Peer-reviewed
The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT) aims
at publishing and disseminating current research about new and emerging
learning technologies as well as their design, usage, application, and
evaluation in different contexts of technology enhanced learning.

The special theme of this issue will focus on topics related to social and
collaborative learning supported through technology, including (but not
limited to) research on concepts and design of collaborative learning
systems and/or the use of technology to support social/collaborative
learning; practical applications of social and/or collaborative learning
through technology; systems and tools that support social and/or
collborative learning; case studies, exploratory studies and pilot studies
on social learning and/or collaborative learning supported through
technology; and evaluations and assessments of technology, systems and tools
that support social and/or collaborative learning.

Articles that are not in the area of the special theme are most welcome as
well and will be published in the regular article section. The Bulletin of
the Technical Committee on Learning Technology invites research articles for
the next issue. This issue will be published in Volume 18, Issue 3.
*** All research articles will go through a thorough peer-reviewing process
***
Submission procedure:

1. Authors have to follow the IEEE author guidelines when preparing their
articles (please see http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/authors-guidelines for
further information)

2. The articles in the bulletin are limited to 4 pages. Over-length articles
will not be published.

3. The manuscripts should be either in Word or RTF format. Any figures used
in the contributions would be required separately in a graphic format (gif
or jpeg). The figures should also be embedded in the text at appropriate
places.

4. To submit your article, please go to
http://ieeetclt.athabascau.ca/bulletin/pkp-ojs/index.php/tclt/login and
login (or click on “Not a user? Register with this site” to register). Once
you are logged in, please click the “New Submission” button to submit your
article.
For further information please see http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/bulletin
and http://ieeetclt.athabascau.ca/bulletin/pkp-ojs/index.php/tclt/index.

For any questions, please contact us at: tclt-bulletin@ieee.org
Best regards,
Sabine Graf
Charalampos Karagiannidis
(Editors of the Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology)

Approaches to Teaching Digital Information Literacy

Call for Chapters

Working Title: Approaches to Teaching Digital Information Literacy

Proposal Deadline: November 11, 2016 deadline extended

Introduction:

Since Paul Glister first defined digital literacy as “the basic thinking skills and core competencies [internet users] need to thrive in an interactive environment” (Glister, 1997), the continued expansion of digital information required a broader approach, especially in the classroom. In 2012, the ALA defined digital literacy as “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills” (ALA, 2012).

Unfortunately, digital technology has turned into digital babysitter, with no direction or purpose other than to occupy kids’ attention.  Several recent studies have proven how detrimental such action can be later in an educational setting.  Kids who have grown up in the blue glow of smart phones, tablets and computers may be able to find information using basic web searches, but they lack the ability to evaluate it effectively. It then becomes the educators’ responsibility to teach them to apply the same critical thinking, synthesis and evaluation skills that are used to assess traditional print sources to digital information.

We believe that the earlier children are exposed to digital technology, the more imperative it becomes to teach digital information literacy skills.  We invite papers that focus on the challenges and approaches to designing, teaching and assessing digital information literacy at various age and grade levels, from Pre-K-12 through college.  At the Academic level, we encourage essays that illustrate how the ACRL Framework can be used to develop digital information literacy courses and programs. We also welcome essays on traditional, hybrid and online courses as well as those that address the needs of non-traditional and international students.

Outline/Proposed Chapters

Our goal is to provide librarians, library staff and faculty with a range of ideas and methods for incorporating digital information literacy into their courses and programs.  Essays will address a grade level or segment of the student population and focus on elements of digital information literacy including instructional design, approaches to teaching, and strategies for assessment.

Part 1: Approaches to Designing and Teaching Digital Information Literacy

Teaching Middle through High School

Chapter 1. Elementary: Kindergarden-5th/6th Grade

Chapter 2.  Middle School: 5th/6th through 9th Grade

Chapter 3:  High School: 9th-12th Grade

Academic

Chapter 4. The Traditional Classroom

Chapter 5. The Hybrid IL Course

Chapter 6. The Online IL Course – Assigned

Chapter 7. IL for International Students

Chapter 8. IL for Non-Traditional Students

Part 2: Strategies for Assessing Digital Information Literacy

Chapter 9. Elementary-Middle School

Chapter 10. High School

Chapter 11. Undergraduate

Chapter 12. Online – Assigned

 

Submission Process

Authors interested in contributing to this work should review the suggested chapter titles above. Interested authors should send a chapter proposal to digitalinfolitbook@gmail.com on or before November 4, 2016.

Your proposal should include:

  • Proposed chapter title
  • An abstract of 150-300 words, including your plan to approach the topic
  • Your name, professional title, and contact information
  • A brief (150 words) statement about your experience in the field.

 

Please send any questions or submissions to digitalinfolitbook@gmail.com.