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art, publics and biosensors - 30th October University of Sussex
by Kate O'Riordan 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Creativity Zone - University of Sussex 30th October 2014 Art, Publics and Biosensors from 1pm + Welcome to the Centre for Material Digital Culture from 4pm 1pm Artists talk and discussion: Coactive Systems: Interactive Bio-sensing ~ a multi-sensory exploration of biological systems - brought to you by Gene A. Felice II, David Kant, Jennifer Parker, UCSC DANM & Music Departments, Openlab, University of Maine New Media & Interermedia, Coaction Lab Followed by panel presentations brought to you by Stephen Fortune, Aristea Fotopoulou and Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex, Lancaster University, EPINET 4pm - Welcome to the Centre for Material Digital Culture - and discussion about the year from 4pm - led by David Berry, Emile Devereaux and Kate O'Riordan Everyone very welcome to both! The Creativity Zone is in the Pevensey II building on the University of SUssex campus: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=campusmap.pdf&site=2… (no 50 on the campus map)

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#ELD15 Opens Call for Proposals
by AJ Kelton 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

The 2015 Emerging Learning Design Conference (ELD15) is accepting proposals for its 5th annual conference, to be held May 29th 2015 on the campus of Montclair State University. *INITIAL PROPOSAL DEADLINE – NOVEMBER 21st, 2015. See below for details.* - For the Call for Proposals Submission Form – click HERE <https://msusurveys.montclair.edu/index.php/771656/lang-en> - For the ELD15 Session Types – click HERE <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld-call-for-proposals/session-types/> - For the Call for Proposals FAQ – click HERE <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld-call-for-proposals/eld-call-for-proposals-faq/> *ROLLING SUBMISSION / EARLY ACCEPTANCE MODEL* The theme for this year's conference is *CONNECT, CONSTRUCT, CREATE: ENGAGING APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING* ELD uses a “rolling submission” model for proposals: every proposal will be reviewed and given feedback within 2 weeks of submission. Your submission will either be accepted or you’ll be provided feedback from our reviewers and offered an opportunity to revise and resubmit. We’ll continue this process of accepting or giving constructive feedback to proposals until all presentation slots are filled or we reach our INITIAL PROPOSAL DEADLINE of November 21st, 2014. Submissions will still be accepted after November 21st, but they will be considered in the second round of proposals. We will work with those who submitted by the EARLY ACCEPTANCE DEADLINE and then look toward later submissions to complete the program, should presentation slots still be available. Why this model? Two main reasons: we've seen that having revise-and-resubmit cycles make our conference’s presentations the best they can be for our attendees, and accepting excellent proposals as they arrive is a great way to let our prospective audience know what to look forward to even before the whole program is finalized. In addition, this model is easier on our reviewers as we don’t get a rush of proposals on deadline day. How do you submit a proposal? Go here <http://eld.montclair.edu/eld-call-for-proposals-faq/> to read some brief instructions on what we need in your submission, and then go to URL and supply that information. We’ll be in touch to confirm your submission was complete, and then let you know within a couple weeks the response from our reviewers. Accepted conference presentations have the potential to be included as proceedings in the Journal of Emerging Learning Design <http://eldj.montclair.edu/>. -- ----- AJ Kelton Director of Emerging & Instructional Technology College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Montclair State University Doctoral Candidate Educational Communication and Technology - New York University ---------- Emerging Learning Design 2015 http://eld.montclair.edu Twitter: @ELDConf <http://twitter.com/ELDConf> ---------- http://www.ajkelton.net Twitter: @aj_kelton <http://twitter.com/aj_kelton>

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CFP: Cultural Studies, Creative Code
by Chuk Moran 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Cultural Studies Association Queer, Creative, and Critical Code Call for Papers (CSA.Q3C.CFP) The working group on Queer, Creative, and Critical Code invites submissions for the 13th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), to be held at Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, California, May 21-24, 2015. The influences of digital technology are myriad and disorderly. Q3C draws together scholars from various disciplines who find these influences interesting. Our goal is to provide a rich and stimulating intellectual home for conversations about the role of digital technology in the context of human culture. We endorse a firm understanding of each technology as a technical object and of the historical situation in which these technologies take on meaning and have their effects. Q3C panels attract broad audiences and include original work on a range of topics including social media, software studies, game studies, software engineering, software art, digital culture, creative code projects, the industry, and digital art. We are soliciting papers for sessions on things digital and welcome papers engaging the CSA Conference theme, "Another University is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy" The deadline for abstracts (of 500 words) is February 15, 2015. Please send submissions and inquiries to chuk.edu at google mail.

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Call For Papers: International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2015)
by Maiga Chang 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much.] ------------------------------------------------ Call For Papers International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2015) September 23-25, 2015 Sinaia, Romania http://www.ask4research.info/icsle/2015/ [Proceedings to be published by Springer] The International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE 2015) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss issues related to the optimization of learning environments to enhance learning. The focus is on the interplay of pedagogy, technology and their fusion towards the advancement of smart learning environments. Confirmed Keynote: * Prof. Dr. Rob Koper of the Open University of the Netherlands: Prof. Dr. Rob Koper is the founder of Educational Modelling Language (EML), currently known as the IMS Learning Design specification (http://www.imsglobal.org)/. He is leading the development and implementation of a new educational model for the Open University. His interests are resarching and developing new media and learning technologies that make learning more attractive, efficient and accessible in all live phases. He works with a combination of new development and research methodologies, and uses these systematically to develop new technologies as well als new knowledge. All products are open source and open content. In the past, Prof. Koper was responsible for the development of serious games and the OU's digital learning environment Studienet, the research into learning networks and the development of the international open standard IMS Learning Design. Conference Outcomes: * Proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Educational Technology series. * Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for Springer’s Smart Learning Environments journal (Open access journal) * Authors of cutting-edge research will also be invited to highlight their innovations under “Inspiring Stories” section of the International Association of Smart Learning Environments website. Important dates: Workshop proposal submission: January 25, 2015 Main conference paper submission: April 10, 2015 Acceptance/Rejection notification: May 25, 2015 Camera ready papers: July 1, 2015 Author registration: July 1, 2015 Honorary Chairs: Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium, USA Diana Laurillard, Institute of Education, United Kingdom Demetrios G. Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece Dan Claudiu Danisor, University of Craiova, Romania General Chairs: Ronghuai Huang, Beijing Normal University, China Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Program Chairs: Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, Canada Yanyan Li, Beijing Normal University, China Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Conference Chair: Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania Workshop Chairs: Jelena Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Guang Chen, Beijing Normal University, China Publicity Chairs: Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada Mohamed Jemni, University of Tunis, Tunisia Technical Operations Chair: Junfeng Yang, Hangzhou Normal University, China Further details: http://www.ask4research.info/icsle/2015/ ------

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CFP - Art Matters International Conference 1024 **Last Call!**
by Lara Portolés 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, ****The Call for Papers for the ART MATTERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2014 ( http://artmattersconference.com/) will close next Friday, 31st October**** ART MATTERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2014 will take place in Barcelona on December 11-12, 2014. It is hosted by the University of Barcelona, the Open University of Catalonia and Hangar, Centre for art research and production. **Verisión en español and versió en català here: http://artmattersconference.com/** =================================================================== The materials and technologies of the contemporary art invite us to reconsider, not only the role that these play in the articulation of artistic practices, but also the theoretical frameworks that demonstrate the role of the materiality itself inside the Art History. These premises involve new methodological challenges and important epistemological transformations in the examination of art; challenges that must be analysed, discussed and contrasted with the long and fertile tradition of art studies. Fundamental problems such as the distribution of the agencies involved in the investigation and the artistic practice, the lines of temporal causality, the interconnection between materialities and discoursivities, the role of the technology and the society, the spatiality and location of the art, gain relevance from the suggested challenges. Art Matters International Conference 2014 hopes to give space for those researches that, coming from the academy and the professional practice, rebuild the relation between art and its materiality: contributions focused on theoretical, methodological and epistemological reconsiderations and, specially, empirical studies centered on art routines and infrastructures. Perspectives such as Media Archaeology, the Actor-Network Theory or the New Materialisms contribute decisively to the possibility of blurring or even erasing preconceived ontological distinctions –inoperative today-, and traditionally supported by the framework of our modernity. We are alluding to established dichotomies such as subject/object, matter/discourse, theory/practice, social/technological, expert/non-expert that lay out important onto-epistemic challenges to overcome. The interest of the congress is precisely to connect these new perspectives with the tradition of history, theory and art practice, starting always from both the reflection and the experience with the routines, the infrastructures and the art fields. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION: (A) Researches about art infrastructures: museums, art galleries, centers of production and investigation, archives, exhibition and distribution displays, art market dynamics. (B) Investigations about objects and artistic practices: new materials, technologies inside the art field, production processes, distribution, conservation and preservation of the art and the media, etc. (C) Other art histories and narratives: “minor” or divergent histories, non linear narratives, emergency of novelties, relational temporality and spatiality, forgotten geographical areas, etc. (D) Onto-epistemic and methodological art frameworks: human and non-human agency, relations between practice and theory, experts and non-experts, trans/inter/meta/non-disciplinarity, etc. ============================== ================================= Those people interested in participating are invited to send, before 31st of October, 2014 (included) a communication proposal to artmattersconference(a)gmail.com for its following evaluation. PROPOSAL FORMAT (TWO SEPARATED DOCUMENTS) ***Communication proposal*** Format .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt Languages: English, Spanish and Catalan Communication title Communication abstract (300 words maximum) Between 3 and 5 keywords. ***Information about the author/authors*** Format .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt Languages: English, Spanish and Catalan Name and surname Institutional affiliation (in case of having it) Email address Brief curriculum (100 words maximum) Information and contact person (only if the communication is presented by more than one author) Communication title Notification of the communication acceptance will be published on 10th November, 2014. Each paper will have 15 minutes, plus a question and answer time. ================================================================ PUBLICATION Some of the papers presented at ART MATTERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2014 will be published in a special issue of Artnodes - Journal of Art Science and Technology (http://journals.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/) These papers will follow the author guidelines, submission procedure and peer-review process of the journal. ================================================================= FURTHER INFORMATION: http://artmattersconference.com/ You can also send an email to: artmattersconference(a)gmail.com ================================================================= Help us disseminate! Feel free to send this email to anyone you think might be interested. Best wishes, Lara F. Portolés Argüelles (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) -- *Lara F. Portolés Argüelles* *Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) - UOC* Barcelona Growth Centre (Roc Boronat, 117 C.P.08018 Barcelona) (+34) 934505420 / (+34) 659763624 lportolesa(a)uoc.edu

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reminder CFP Media and Communication for a special issue on surveillance Nov 15
by James Schwoch 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Hello and a reminder about CFP: special issue of Media and Communication on surveillance-abstracts by November 15 2014 Further information: http://cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/sp… James Schwoch Northwestern University Department of Communication Studies 2400 Campus Drive Evanston IL 60208 j-schwoch(a)northwestern.edu<mailto:j-schwoch@northwestern.edu> Brief description: Proposals are sought for article publication in Media and Communication for a special issue on surveillance. The deadline for abstracts is 10-15 November 2014, for completion of accepted papers 24-31 March 2015, and publication is scheduled for October 2015. We welcome contemporary and historical projects, research ranging from local to global issues, and interdisciplinary approaches. We aim to present work that will collectively address an international audience.

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Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics (May 27, 2015) - Ryerson University, Canada
by Dr Samita Nandy 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

*Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics* This workshop will offer: guidance on professional skills and career opportunities both inside and outside academia; insights and resources for scholars to become critics and experts in media; and basic media and public relations training with a focus on how to answer questions from reporters. *Key Speakers:* *Jennifer Polk* is an academic and career coach for graduate students and PhDs. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 2012 and is now a blog writer for academic magazine *University Affairs*, where her featured column From PhD to Life offers regular professional guidance to graduate students, PhDs, and academics. As a career coach, she has been a keynote lecturer, guest speaker and panelist at various universities in Canada and has been published in Vitae, Academic Matters, and The Globe and Mail. She has also been featured on SFU Graduate Studies & Postdoctoral Fellows blog, *Maclean's magazine, Upstart Business Journal*, CUIT 89.5FM Toronto, and History News Network. See more: www.fromphdtolife.com. *Carolyn Harris* is a royal historian and lecturer based in Toronto, Canada. Carolyn completed her PhD in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada in May, 2012 and teaches history at the University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies. She also provides royal commentary on the CTV news channel and CBC radio. As an expert in the history of European monarchy, she has been interviewed by numerous media outlets including the CTV News Channel, CNN, BBC Radio 5, CBC syndicated radio, Radio Canada International, TVO's "The Agenda," The Toronto Star, the National Post and the Globe and Mail. Her writings concerning the historical context of issues facing the British and Canadian monarchies today has appeared in the BBC News Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Military History Monthly, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Bloomberg News, Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig-Standard. Her forthcoming book "Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada" will be published in 2015 by Dundurn Press. See more: http://www.royalhistorian.com/. *Samita Nandy* is the director of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) and writes as a cultural critic on fame. She earned her PhD in media and celebrity culture from the Department of Media and Information at Curtin University, Australia in 2012 and is a certified broadcast journalist. Her international media relations and work led her to be featured CBC News, CTV's Breaking News CP 24, The Globe and Mail, *Daytime *and *First Local* on Rogers Television, OMNI TV, Canadian Journalism Foundation, Urban Television, Eternity Watch magazine, ANOKHI Media, ATN Television Network, CINA 1650 AM; Starbuzz Weekly, and Mississauga News among many more. Her work has been published in edited books *The Performance of Celebrity *and *The Emotions Industry*. Her forthcoming book *Fame in Hollywood North *will be published in 2015 by WaterHill Publishers. See more: www.cmc-centre.com and www.samitanandy.com. *Shannon Skinner* is the host and producer of television series, *Extraordinary Women TV*, now in its third season on television. With more than 20 years of experience in public relations, she is regular contributor to Huffington Post and has appeared in LIFE magazine, *Good Morning America*, Rogers TV *Daytime*, *Global TV,* *Canadian Living*, *Notable.ca,* *Good News Toronto*, *Liquid Lunch*, among others. Shannon studied creative writing at the University of Oxford and film studies at Ryerson University, and received her B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an active member of Women in Film and TV (WIFT) and the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Toronto. She is also the recipient of the University of Saskatchewan, College of Arts & Science's *Alumni of Influence Award 2014*. Her show airs on Rogers TV Toronto and syndicated world-wide online. See more: http://www.extraordinarywomentv.com/ and http://shannonskinner.com/meet-shannon/. This panel workshop is part of international conference *Bridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society *that will be held on May 27-28, 2015 at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Register by 15 January 2015. Registration includes full access to the conference (see http://cmc-centre.com/conference2015/ for details or if you wish to submit a paper). Priority will be given to conference presenters, with limited space for other attendees.

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Re: [Air-L] Bibliography for digital serial fiction
by Jill Walker Rettberg 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Hi Nina, There was just a presentation on social media narratives at #IR15, by Linda Kronman. I happened to bambuser it (with Linda's permission) so you can watch the video here: http://bambuser.com/v/5015944 and the abstract is here https://www.conftool.com/aoir-ir15/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessi… The ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base is a great resource for finding creative works and scholarship on this sort of work. I added Linda Kronman's talk to the database and in the entry you'll also see links to the entries for the social media fiction she discussed: http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/can-transmedia-storytelling-learn-hypert… You'll find lots more in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base. Social media fiction has many different names. Try searching for things like netprov, twitter fiction, email narratives, transmedia - or follow the tags from each work. Most entries have links to the full text, the website, a PDF or video or other documentation. Some examples of creative works and scholarship - you'll find links to critical writing about each of the creative works and links to creative works and scholarship cited by the critical writing if you follow the link to the database. You can also try clicking on the tags for each work to find others that are similar. The database is ALWAYS in progress and is created by volunteers like you and me, so you'd also be very welcome to sign up as a contributor if you'd like to add more! Many social media fictions disappear once they're performed, so you may have to just look at documentation. Mark Marino and Rob Wittig: Occupy MLA http://elmcip.net/creative-work/occupy-mla See also this interview with them about creating fiction in social media: http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/love-social-writerly-game-interview-mark… Critical writing: - Christy Dena's work on transmedia http://elmcip.net/person/christy-dena Probably most of Rob Wittig's work http://elmcip.net/person/rob-wittig Scott Rettberg on collective narrative: http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/all-together-now-hypertext-collective-na… Mark Marino and Rob Wittig on Netprov: http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/netprov-elements-emerging-form Judy Malloy's collection of short pieces about using Twitter as an authoring platform for electronic literature: http://www.narrabase.net/twitter.html Judy Malloy's work Uncle Roger (1986), arguably the first work of hypertext fiction, was itself not published as static hypertext, but performed on the WELL, the social media of the 80s. http://elmcip.net/creative-work/uncle-roger My own short pieces on email novels and hoaxes in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media: http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/email-novel http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/hoaxes and my essay on distributed narrative: http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/distributed-narrative-telling-stories-ac… I'm sure there's a lot of other good stuff out there that I'm forgetting right now. Best of luck on your project! Jill --- Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen Blog - http://jilltxt.net Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt My book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave as an open access publication - buy it in print or download it for free! http://jilltxt.net/books > From: Nina Shiel <nina.shiel3(a)mail.dcu.ie> > Subject: [Air-L] Bibliography for digital serial fiction > Date: October 24, 2014 at 12:38:58 GMT+2 > To: <webcultures(a)listcultures.org>, <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > > Dear colleagues, > > I am starting to work on social media fiction (Twitter, FB, etc), browser > games like Fallen London and podcast fiction (such as Welcome to > Nightvale). > > Would anyone have any pointers on any previous critical work done on these > areas? > > Best Regards, > Nina > > -- > > Nina Shiel > PhD Researcher in Comparative Literature > Research supported by the Irish Research Council > > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies > Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland > > http://vividdescription.wordpress.com/

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Contents of Vol. 12, No. 3 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal)
by Maiga Chang 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple times, please circulate this to your colleagues who might be interested, thank you so much.] [This email includes the table of contents of Vol. 12, No. 3 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal) and the general call for papers of IJDET] ------- Annoucement of the publication of Vol. 12, No. 3 of IJDET (an EI journal)----------- http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-… We are glad to announce the publication of Vol. 12, No. 3 of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET, an EI journal). In this issue, SIX papers are included: Implementation of Web-Based Distance Education in Nursing Education in Turkey: A Sample Lesson in Patient Education (pages 1-13) Emine Senyuva, Gulsun Tasocak The research was carried out in 2005-2006 as a descriptive and methodological study. It aimed to obtain students' feedback and to serve as a source for future relevant studies. The setting of the study was Istanbul University Florence Nightingale Nursing College and at Istanbul University Bakirkoy Health College. The sample of the study included 167 students who voluntarily consented to participate in the study. The sample was taken from the population of all students continuing their education at the two study universities. Data were collected utilizing the “Information Form 1” and the “Information Form 2” The students' general mean and standard deviation values on Information Form 2 were (117.02±8.04), and when the arithmetic mean and standard deviation values relating to the sections were examined, the results were as follows: Views about the Design of the patient education course (65.19±3.33), Views about the patient education course (24.71±2.57), Views about web-based distance learning after education (27.19±3.86). These were considered to be satisfactory findings indicating that the students had positive views about the web-based patient education course in general. The opinion of the students about the “Patient Education” lesson was generally positive. There was a significant difference with respect to the scores on the questionnaire between the students with, and students without, the ability of learning by themselves, the scores being higher in the former (p<0.05). http://www.igi-global.com/article/implementation-of-web-based-distance-educ… Problematic but Possible: Online Teaching and Learning in Post-registration Programmes (pages 14-21) Maria Cassar, Josef Trapani This artifact identifies the main challenges experienced by the authors, both nurse educators, in the delivery of a module on evidence based practice exclusively through the use of an e-learning platform. The module has been running for the past four years as part of an entirely online post registration programme for qualified health professionals seeking a baccalaureate qualification, and makes use of asynchronous online discussions coupled with traditional written assignments as assessment methods. The authors' efforts to address the identified challenges are discussed, in view of flagging the measures which may need to be put in place by educators embarking on similar teaching initiatives. http://www.igi-global.com/article/problematic-but-possible/117179 The A-Framework: The Role of Access, Attributes, and Affordance in the Adoption of Distance Education Technology for Lifestyle Change (pages 22-40) Patrick J. Tierney, Susan Moisey This exploratory mixed methods case study examined the use of distance education technology for lifestyle change within the context of obesity treatment and weight management. In the quantitative phase of the study, 19 adults involved in an obesity-related lifestyle change program or change process completed a questionnaire that determined their attitude toward technology adoption, access to various types of information and communication technology and level of connectivity, and the extent to which they used technologies in their daily lives. The qualitative phase consisted of semi-structured interviews with individuals who were currently or had been obese and involved in a weight management program. The participants were provided access to a website which contained a set of online tools and resources believed to assist with weight loss and lifestyle change. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to obtain each participant's perceptions of, and reactions to, the various tools and resources. The A-Framework was developed as a direct result of this study. http://www.igi-global.com/article/the-a-framework/117180 The Influence of Self-Efficacies on Readers' Intention to Use E-Reading Devices: An Empirical Study (pages 41-61) Bor-Yuan Tsai, Jung-Nan Yen E-books and e-Reading Devices (E-RDs) markets have been enlarged due to the rapid progress of digital technologies. What are the possible factors to increase readers' willingness to use electronic devices? To improve the predictive value of the original TAM model, this study incorporates three additional constructs to form e-Reading Device Acceptance Mode: reading self-efficacy, computer self-efficacy and perceived enjoyment. This model consists of six constructs and 11 research hypotheses. The research questionnaires were distributed in Taiwan, and the research results showed that reading self-efficacy shows positive influences on readers' intention to use the E-RDs. On the contrary, computer self-efficacy does not show positive influences on perceived usefulness or perceived enjoyment. Moreover, the perceived ease of use of E-RDs does not show significant impacts on readers' intention to use the devices. Explanations of the causes and reasons are given in this paper, and the finding of this research may provide useful references and materials for e-book publishers, e-reading device developers, and researchers for further studies. http://www.igi-global.com/article/the-influence-of-self-efficacies-on-reade… E-book Usability in Educational Technology Classes: Teachers and Teacher Candidates' Perception toward E-book for Teaching and Learning (pages 62-74) Sunghee Shin This study was designed to enrich the learning experiences of in-service and pre-service teachers in two educational technology classes by adopting e-books as the course material. Graduate students were more positive about their e-book reading experience than undergraduate students, but, surprisingly, more undergraduates (63.6%) became interested in checking out e-book readers from the school library than graduate students (51.9%). Over three-quarters of undergraduates (78.6%) responded positively about the use of e-book readers by the end of the study. Despite their appreciation of e-book features, more than half of both undergraduate and graduate students preferred print books but were willing to use e-books and e-book readers for their readings. Shortcomings of e-books were eye-strain and the limitation of e-book collections. http://www.igi-global.com/article/e-book-usability-in-educational-technolog… Utilizing Twitter and #Hashtags Toward Enhancing Student Learning in an Online Course Environment (pages 75-83) T. Scott Bledsoe, Dave Harmeyer, Shuang Frances Wu The authors offer an answer to the research question, To what extent and in what ways is Twitter helpful to student learning when group hashtags are created and used in collaborative educational environments? Sixty-two students in a spring 2012 graduate online Research Methodology course worked individually and in groups to create discussions on topics of interest through Twitter posts and student-created hashtags. Student participants answered nine qualitative and quantitative questions concerning the Twitter/hashtag exercise and used collaborative blog pages to reflect on their experiences. A grounded theory approach was applied to classify data generated from the nine questions and blog postings. An analysis of the study's data resulted in the discovery of the following four themes: access to information, communication, class engagement, and general feedback. Based on these themes, nine recommendations are offered for maximizing the use of Twitter in an online environment for increased student engagement and learning. http://www.igi-global.com/article/utilizing-twitter-and-hashtags-toward-enh… ------- General Call for Papers for IJDET (an EI journal)----------- The electronic version of this cfp can be seen at http://maiga.athabascau.ca/editors/IJDET-Call_for_Papers-General.pdf International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) (http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-distance-education-…) The International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET) is a forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate practical solutions to the automation of open and distance learning. Targeted to academic researchers and engineers who work with distance learning programs and software systems, as well as general users of distance education technologies and methods, IJDET discusses computational methods, algorithms, implemented prototype systems, and applications of open and distance learning. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are peer-reviewed according to the procedure consisting of initial review, peer review, and recommendation Editor in Chief: Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) Indices: Compendex (Elsevier EI), DBLP, EBSCOhost, ERIC, Google Scholar, INSPEC, PsycINFOR, SCOPUS, and many others Suggested topics: IJDET is an EI journal and the scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to: - Assessment - Distance Learning for Culture and Arts - Intelligent and Adaptive Learning - Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Mobile Learning - Nurse Medical Healthcare - Pedagogical Issues - Social Learning - Serious Games for Distance Education - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education - Technology Enhanced Learning - Ubiquitous Learning - Virtual Worlds for Distance Education Applying for being a reviewer of IJDET: Please send your CV to editor in chief, Dr. Maiga Chang (maiga.chang(a)gmail.com) Please note that as a reviewer of IJDET, you are expected to review four manuscripts a year in a timely manner (i.e., usually within four weeks and you will be removed from the reviewer pool if you couldn't finish assigned reviews in a timely manner or you can not review four manuscripts a year for IJDET). You can quit for being a reviewer at any time you want. You would be invited to become international review editorial board members if you could maintain high quality reviews for at least two years. Manuscript guidelines: At this moment we have not moved to the publisher's online submission system yet (we plan to move to the publisher's system later), please go to http://www.ijdet.com to submit your manuscript. Please note that you need to follow the manuscript template and author guidelines to prepare your manuscript before submit it. The links of the manuscript template in DOC format and the author guidelines and the instructional video can be found on the main page of the website (http://www.ijdet.com) Please remember to check "Author" role while registering your account. All submissions have to follow IJDET manuscript guidelines at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/resources/journal-organization-and-format… http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx should be submitted online at http://www.ijdet.com/ after registering an account. Special Issue proposals: We also encourage potential research in any fields related to the journal to form a high quality guest editorial team to submit special issue proposal online, for any emerging, important, and hot topics. 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Kids Video making & sharing habits
by Tamara Peyton 25 Oct '14

25 Oct '14

Along with researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota, I am working on a multi-method project to understand the video making and online sharing practices of kids (aged 7 to 17). We are soliciting respondents for a survey of parents understandings of their kids video habits. If you have kids between the ages of 7 to 17 that make videos, would you consider taking our brief survey? Completed survey takers will be given the option to enter a draw for a $50 Amazon gift certificate. https://pennstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0VZJqPdqhHYWy3P Feel free to share this recruitment email widely to your own networks, as well. -- *Tamara Peyton | PhD Candidate | Health Information Technologies Lab (HInT-L) | College of Information Sciences and Technology | * The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA 16802 | tamara(a)psu.edu | @pstamara | about.me/tamarapeyton

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