[Air-l] Fwd: [SLED] Call for Participation in a free online conference with April 7 proposal deadline

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Vance Stevens <vstevens at emirates.net.ae>
> Date: March 28, 2007 2:49:55 AM EDT
> To: educators at lists.secondlife.com
> Subject: [SLED] Call for Participation in a free online conference  
> with April 7 proposal deadline
> Reply-To: SL Educators <educators at lists.secondlife.com>
>
> Hello all,
>
> The conference indicated here is a free online one that would be  
> amenable to accepting proposals pertaining to Second Life.  If  
> interested, read on ...
>
> Call for Participation for WiaOC 2007
> CONNECT: a free synchronous and asynchronous online conference for  
> teachers and education professionals
> May 18-20, 2007
>
> Webheads in Action <http://webheads.info>, a world-wide cross- 
> cultural online community of several hundred ESL/EFL educators and  
> other professionals, invites your participation in CONNECT:  
> Conversations on Networking, Education, Communities, and  
> Technology, a unique conference to be held entirely online May  
> 18-20, 2007.
>
> The conference is called a convergence because it is intended to be  
> a fair or festival in which many communities of colleagues converge  
> to celebrate with us by presenting their work in a wide variety of  
> formats. Participation is free and open to all who are interested.  
> Keynote speakers include Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Etienne  
> Wenger, Barbara Ganley, Teemu Leinonen, and Leigh Blackall. More  
> information is available at <http://wiaoc.org> or <http:// 
> www.wiaoc.org>.
>
> WiAOC 2007 follows on the success of our first completely free  
> online global convergence <http://2005.wiaoc.org>
>
> Proposals for presentations at WiAOC 2007 will be accepted through  
> April 7, 2007.
>
> Proposals are invited for synchronous events, asynchronous events,  
> or combinations of the two. Session topics can be pedagogical or  
> technical, and might include examples of practical work with  
> students, training sessions, reports of research or research in  
> progress, demonstrations of new media, or descriptions or  
> explorations of how interaction takes place over the Internet-e.g.,  
> how online communities form as a result of computer-mediated  
> communication.
>
> Synchronous events (including, but not limited to presentations,  
> demonstrations, panel / roundtable discussions, chats and  
> conversations) can be held at any of our partners' voice-enabled  
> presentation portals, or one of your own choosing. Training and  
> assistance will be available for presenters wishing to use our  
> partners' venues.
>
> Asynchronous events might include bulletin board discussions,  
> online poster sessions, integration with content management  
> systems, or other formats.
>
> To create a proposal, first register at the convergence proposal  
> site http://wiaoc.prof2000.pt/.
>
> Remember your ID and password there, because once you have  
> registered, you may, until the deadline, revisit the site as often  
> as you like to edit or add to your proposal, or create new ones.
>
> Tagged artifacts will be aggregated during and around the time of  
> this conference. Please tag any artifacts you create wiaoc2007.
>
> You may direct questions to WiAOC Coordinator Vance Stevens at  
> vstevens at emirates.net.ae
>
> We look forward to interacting with you at the WiAOC 2007: CONNECT  
> free online convergence
>
> Please feel free to distribute this notice to your colleagues as  
> you see fit
>
> The WiAOC 2007 Organization Team
>
>
>
>

jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

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