Graduate Student Conference at TC

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http://events.tc.columbia.edu/tcetc2009/

Call for Papers

The Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education Program at Teachers College invites submissions for its 2009 Educational Technology Conference, "TCETC 2009: Technology, Media, and Designs for Learning."

This conference will serve as a multi-disciplinary forum for graduate students to discuss and exchange information on the research, development and applications of emerging technologies in K-12 classrooms, distance learning settings, higher education, and corporate learning environments.

TCETC 2009 will take place at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City on May 10-11, 2009. Papers exploring topics such as the following are encouraged. The topic list is illustrative rather than comprehensive; we encourage papers presenting completed research and works-in-progress on other related topics.

Instructional Design of Online Environments
Social Software, Web 2.0 Tools
Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Mediated Communication, Mobile Media
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Games for Learning, Possibilities of Virtual Worlds
New Literacies, Identify Formation, the Future of Libraries and Museums
Cross-Cultural Communication
Media in the Developing World
Teaching with Technology, including teaching Science, Math, Computer
Science, & Computer Science Education

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be completely authored by current graduate students. Abstracts (in English) of no more than 500-1000 words must be uploaded to the conference website <http://events.tc.columbia.edu/tcetc2009/> . The deadline for submission is 11:59 EST on Monday, March 16, 2009. First authors will be notified by April 3, 2009. Abstracts should summarize the proposed presentation in a way that permits evaluation of the paper's quality and significance. The committee will consider:

1) the paper's appeal to research communities interested in instructional media and emerging communication tools;

2) the paper's suitability for oral presentation; and

3) the quality of the content and significance of results.

The conference website will prompt you to include the paper title, presenter's name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and email address(es) of the author(s). In addition, please include a
biographical statement for each author of no more than 100 words. If your paper is accepted, this statement may be posted to the conference website and included in the program.

Confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during the entire review process; all rejected submissions will be kept confidential. Accepted abstracts will be posted to the conference website. Presenters will have the opportunity to revise their abstracts and post them no later than April 20, 2009. Participation in this conference does not preclude submission of that work to other academic conferences.

Exceptional conference presenters may be asked to submit full papers to appear in a publication of conference proceedings.

Feel free to contact the conference Chairs, Marion Goldstein and Antonios Saravanos, with questions or for more information. Please also monitor the conference website at
http://events.tc.columbia.edu/tcetc2009/ for information regarding registration, accommodations, travel, and conference updates. Presenters and attendees must pay a registration fee of $25.