Month: January 2014

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International Educational Technology Conference 2014‏

TASET ORGANIZES IETC 2014 CONFERENCE

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
IETC 2014
CHICAGO – USA

3-5 September 2014

www.iet-c.net

Call for papers

IETC 2014 seeks a diverse and comprehensive program covering all areas of educational technology. The program includes a wide range of activities designed to facilitate the exchange of expertise, experience, and resources with colleagues. These include keynote and invited talks, full and brief paper presentations, panels and round table discussion sessions.

We would like to invite you to share your experience and your papers with academicians, teachers and professionals. 

Keynote Invited Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Title

Prof. Dr. Steve HARMON (2015)
President-Elect – AECT
Georgia State University – USA

New Horizons in Education Technology

Prof.Dr. J. Ana DONALDSON
AECT Former President – USA

Through the Kaleidoscope Perspectives on eLearning

Prof. Dr. J. Michael SPECTOR
Universiy of Georgia, USA

Balancing Relatively Stable Educational Goals with Rapidly Changing Educational Technologies

Prof. Dr. Buket AKKOYUNLU
Hacettepe University, Turkey

Who is the 21st Century Learner? How are we going to prepare them for the 21st Century?

Prof. Dr. Theresa J. FRANKLIN
Ohio University, USA

Embracing the Future: Empowering 21st Century Learners

Prof. Dr. Saedah SIRAJ
University of Malaya, Malaysia

Evaluation Innovation: Fuzzy Delphi in Evaluating Education Design

Conference Language

The official languages of the conference are English and Turkish. Proposals can be sent and be presented in either language. But all submission process will be done in English. Please, submit your proposal according to the following presentation category descriptions in paper guidelines.

Conference Venue

IETC 2014 will be held at AIC Campus 640 W. Irving Park Rd. Chicago, IL, USA.

Deadlines

Abstract Deadline : Until July 5, 2014

Full Article Deadline : Until July 20, 2014

Registration Fee Deadline : Until August 5, 2014

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Conferences

International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2014) Submission Deadline‏

The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2014) has
re-opened submissions until 15 January. To submit, please follow the
link below:

http://www.icqi.org/home/submission/

For registration, please use the following link:

http://www.icqi.org/registration/

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Employment

Paid student internship opportunity – Museum Studies

(Re)claiming the New Westminster Waterfront Internship

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Publication Opportunities

Call for Papers: the Democratization of Hacking & Making‏

Call For Papers:
Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making

Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to craft. By contrast, “hacking” and “making” in the current day are increasingly inroads to a more diverse range of activities, industries, and groups. They may show a strong cultural allegiance or map new interpretations and trajectories.

These developments prompt us to revisit central questions: does the use of hacking/making terminologies carry with them particular valences? Are they deeply rooted in technologies, ideologies or cultures? Are they best examined through certain intellectual traditions? Can they be empowering to participants, or are they merely buzzwords that have been diluted and co-opted by governmental and business entities? What barriers to entry and participation exist?

The current issue explores and questions the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions that employ novel methodological and theoretical perspectives to understand this turn in hacking are encouraged. They should explore new opportunities for conversations and consider hacking as rooted in a specific phenomena, culture, environment, practice or movement. Criteria for admission in this special issue include rigor of analysis, caliber of interpretation, and relevance of conclusions.

Topics may include:

• Disparities of access and representation, such as gender, race and ethnicity
• Open-access environments for learning and production, such as hacker and maker spaces
• “Civic hacking” and open data movements on city, state and national levels
• Integration of hacking and making within industries
• Historical analyses of making/hacking such as phreaking and amateur computing
• Popularization of terms like “hacker” in newspapers, magazines and other publications
• Open-source hardware and software movements
• Appropriation of technology
• Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and China
• Political implications of a popular shift in hacker/maker culture

Please email 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author biography, by May 1, 2014 toaschrock@usc.edu and jhunsinger@wlu.ca. Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will undergo peer review.

Jeremy Hunsinger
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities Service Opportunities

Orientation for new graduate students!

ORIENTATION is this week. Please remind your incoming graduate students of New Graduate Student Orientation.  The complete schedule is available at http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/january-2014/

Thursday, Jan 9th: Main orientation for all new graduate students (Graduate Student Resources, How to be Successful and Financial information)

(Register for January 9th’s event at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2e67 )

Jan 10th: Graduate Student Society open house and club social (open to new and current graduate students)

Student Leadership Conference:

For all graduate students, colleagues asked if I could alert students to this Saturday’s (January 11th, 2014) Student Leadership Conference being held at UBC.  New this year are workshops run by and for grad students looking for ways to expand their leadership skills.  Students may register at slc.ubc.ca.

For information about January’s GPS sessions, please visit www.grad.ubc/gps .

Jacqui Brinkman

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Conferences

Moving EdTech from Enhancement to Transformation – symposium

I am a presenter at a symposium taking place in February (see attached pdf). I think it would be of great benefit to education policy and administrators, teacher educators, teacher candidates, and education researchers interested in the future of education in this province.

Jenny Arntzen, BFA, MA, PhD Candidate

SFU CSELP Symposium Promo

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Announcements Conferences

Submission Deadline Extension for Queer U 2014‏

This message is being sent to notify that the deadline for submissions to the “Queer U” Academic conference has been extended to January 15th. We are currently accepting abstracts from graduate students, established scholars and strong undergraduates. If you have not already submitted your abstracts that you may have been working on, now is the time to do so!

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Announcements

January At A Glance

The EDCP Peer Advisors have many exciting things planned for the month of January. Enlarge the image to check out the calendar.

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3R Workshops Announcements Employment Speakers

Jobs in Academia Workshop Series – Jan 15/22/29

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Funding and Awards

Call for Nominations: Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships

The EDCP Deadline for this completion will be:  January 27, 2014.

Call for Nominations:  Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships

For graduate programs:

The University of British Columbia offers multi-year fellowships to Master’s and doctoral Aboriginal students via the Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships (AGF) program.  The AGF program is intended to complement, rather than provide a substitute for, graduate funding programs such as the Four Year Fellowship (4YF) and Graduate Support Initiative (GSI) programs.  It is expected that graduate programs will consider recommending their aboriginal students for funding from the AGF competition in addition to, rather than in place of, considering them for funding from the 4YF, GSI and other graduate funding programs. On the AGF Nomination Form, graduate program will be asked if their doctoral nominees are also being recommended for funding from the 4YF program.  If so, and the nominee is subsequently ranked high enough to be offered AGF funding, the student will receive the 4YF and an AGF top up of $2,000 per year for the duration of their 4YF.

Please set an internal deadline for the Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship competition, and forward the following announcement to your students:

For students:

Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship

Amount: $16,000 – $18,000 stipend plus tuition each year for up to two years (Master’s) or four years (doctoral)

The University of British Columbia offers multi-year fellowships to Master’s and doctoral Aboriginal students. Approximately a dozen new fellowships are offered each year. The competition is open to both incoming and continuing aboriginal graduate students.

For more information about this competition and links to application and reference forms, please see the Graduate Awards website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/aboriginal-graduate-fellowships

The contact at the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for this competition is Angela Rizzo (angela.rizzo@ubc.ca).

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Employment

GRA Posting for the Centre for Community Engaged Learning

We are looking to fill this position (see attached) as soon as possible and are hoping to attract some strong candidates from EDCP. APSC_CCEL GRA 2014 – Final

Holly Schmidt, BFA,BEd, MFA

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Announcements Department Events Speakers

EDCP Research Seminar by Dr. Shafik Dharamsi

Date:            Friday, Jan 10th 2014

Venue:         Scarfe Room 1107

Time:            12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Title:             Socially Responsible Approaches to Global Education Initiatives – First, Do No Harm

Speaker:       Dr. Shafik Dharamsi, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

Abstract:

Participation in global education and international engagement initiatives can provide students the opportunity to foster a sense of global citizenship, develop global fluency, and a sense of social responsibility to respond to global inequalities. Many opportunities are often set in socioeconomically vulnerable communities in resource-poor settings. In the health and human service disciplines, there is growing concern that international engagement opportunities are frequently used by students as opportunities to practise clinical skills, enhance one’s résumé, and travel to ‘far-away and exotic’ places. Sometimes referred to pejoratively as ‘voluntourism’, international engagement efforts can result in vulnerable communities serving as a means to fulfil the students’ or the university’s own ends instead of first serving the global community. Rigorous and thoughtful pre-departure preparation can help students consider and avoid the potential for harm and exploitation that can result from their participation in global education programs.

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