From huangrh at bnu.edu.cn Tue Feb 6 21:30:53 2007 From: huangrh at bnu.edu.cn (Ronghuai Huang) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:30:53 +0800 Subject: Fw: Lecturer in Education (eResearch and Technology Enhanced Learning) References: <370757760.22052@bnu.edu.cn> Message-ID: <370767154.24381@eyou.net> Hi, If you are interested in the new post of Lancaster University, Please see the following information. All the best! ------------------ Ronghuai Huang 2007-02-06 ------------------------------------------------------------- ????David McConnell ?????2007-02-06 18:29:20 ????huangrh at bnu.edu.cn ??? ???Lecturer in Education (eResearch and Technology Enhanced Learning) Hi Ronghuai Hope you are well Could you circulate this to anyone you think may be interested. Thanks!! Lecturer in Education (eResearch and Technology Enhanced Learning) Reference: A808 For application details please see: http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/vacancydets.aspx?jobid=A808 We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague with a strong record of teaching, research and evaluation in e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning(TEL). The specialism of the Department of Educational Research is in TEL in further, higher and adult education. The person appointed will make a major contribution to the Department's new online Doctoral Programme in TEL and will further our expertise in e-research. The appointment will be at Lecturer Grade 7 or level 8 (?8,290 - ?9,160) and will take effect from September 2007. This is an indefinite contract. The closing date for applications is February 19th, 2007. -------------------------------------------------- David McConnell (Prof) CSALT - Department of Educational Research County South Lancaster University. Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK email:david.mcconnell at lancaster.ac.uk E-Learning Groups and Communities: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335212808.html From Mike.Sharples at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Feb 6 22:10:29 2007 From: Mike.Sharples at nottingham.ac.uk (Sharples Mike) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:10:29 -0000 Subject: Special Issue of IJWBC on "Mobility: Adding Flexibility to Web-based Communities" Message-ID: I have been asked by the Special Issue Editor to forward this informtion about a special issue of IJWBC. Please contact David Kennedy for further details. Mike ---------------- Call for a Special Issue Mobility: Adding Flexibility to Web-based Communities In the International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC) Published by INDERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS The development of more mobile and more flexible learning communities is being supported by developments in hardware (e.g., smart phones, smaller more powerful notebook computers and a variety of wireless communication options) and software (e.g., the rise of the semantic web tools). Increasingly, communities are being characterized by: * diversity of access to content and modes of communication; * more opportunities to store, share and disseminate information; and * convergence of wired and wireless technologies that support more diverse community interactions. Further information may be found at https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=50. In the first instance, submissions and proposals should be made directly to the editor of the special edition of the Journal David M. Kennedy: dkennedy at hku.hk Do NOT submit papers for review to the IJWBC website. It is anticipated that there will be approximately 10 papers of approximately 12 pages each plus an overview by the editor. Guest Editor extended contact details, including email -- David M. Kennedy, PhD Hong Kong University Faculty of Education Division of Information & Technology Studies Runme Shaw Bld., Room 211 Telephone: +852 2241 5428 Deptl. Fax: +852 2858 5649 Email: dkennedy at hku.hk Conferences EDMEDIA: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/default.htm WEBIST: http://www.webist.org/ This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marcelo.milrad at msi.vxu.se Thu Feb 8 17:59:52 2007 From: marcelo.milrad at msi.vxu.se (Marcelo Milrad) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:59:52 +0100 Subject: For $150, third-world laptop stirs a big debate Message-ID: <45CAF498.8040901@msi.vxu.se> Hi all, Please have a look at an interesting article that recently appeared in the International Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/30/america/web.1130laptop.php Best regards. Marcelo Milrad From chan at cl.ncu.edu.tw Thu Feb 8 19:10:20 2007 From: chan at cl.ncu.edu.tw (Tak-Wai Chan) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:10:20 +0800 Subject: a story Message-ID: <002601c74b71$d4f6cc00$6801a8c0@Chanx60> Hi, This is Tak-Wai. I'm now in Canada. Last week, Oscar Lin, who works in a local university and participated once or twice G1:1 meeting before, called me. He asked me whether I'm interested in an 1:1 project as the local (provincial) education bureau(?) has a Call for Proposal for a 1:1 project in K12. I said: 'Wait a minute! Do they use the term 'one-to-one' in the Call?' 'Yes.' He answered. Then I told him that a few years ago, after I gave their university a talk on learning with these 1:1 research, Rory McGreal suggested to me to give a presentation to the local education bureau as they must be interested in it. Terry Anderson went with me to give presentation to them. They were not interested! In Taiwan, sometimes people see something made in local, they find it no big deal. When this thing gets exported and then comes back again as an imported product, then they find it a big deal. Well, Elliot must be happy to hear that as the term "one-to-one" is really adopted. Jeremy must be happy also as this proves his claim that when we researchers get together, our voice is bigger. See, they finally listen! How much this "One Laptop Per Child" project contributes to this concept of one-to-one? The Chinese New Year is approaching. Wish you all a productive and peaceful year of the PIG! Tak-Wai From chan at cl.ncu.edu.tw Thu Feb 8 20:01:17 2007 From: chan at cl.ncu.edu.tw (Tak-Wai Chan) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:01:17 +0800 Subject: Please do not misuse this mailing list Message-ID: <002701c74b78$dc288430$6801a8c0@Chanx60> Dear G1:1 colleagues, I've noticed that some people used this mailing list to distribute CFPs for some conferences or workshops. There are numerous conferences and workshops these days. Some of you must be fed up getting such messages. Please use this mailing list JUST for distributing 1:1 related events or messages, not others. Make messages came from this mailing list interesting! Best, Tak-Wai From sktse at hkucc.hku.hk Thu Feb 8 19:44:06 2007 From: sktse at hkucc.hku.hk (Prof. Tse Shek Kam) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:44:06 +0800 Subject: a story In-Reply-To: <002601c74b71$d4f6cc00$6801a8c0@Chanx60> Message-ID: <001601c74b76$73794520$756d0893@R405CNG6210CR8> Thanks for your story. Happy Chinese New Year. SK ------------------------------ S K Tse, Associate Dean, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China. Tel: (852) 2859 1960 Fax: (852) 2858 5649 e-mail: sktse at hkucc.hku.hk -----Original Message----- From: discussion-bounces at g1to1.org [mailto:discussion-bounces at g1to1.org] On Behalf Of Tak-Wai Chan Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:10 PM To: discussion at g1to1.org Subject: a story Hi, This is Tak-Wai. I'm now in Canada. Last week, Oscar Lin, who works in a local university and participated once or twice G1:1 meeting before, called me. He asked me whether I'm interested in an 1:1 project as the local (provincial) education bureau(?) has a Call for Proposal for a 1:1 project in K12. I said: 'Wait a minute! Do they use the term 'one-to-one' in the Call?' 'Yes.' He answered. Then I told him that a few years ago, after I gave their university a talk on learning with these 1:1 research, Rory McGreal suggested to me to give a presentation to the local education bureau as they must be interested in it. Terry Anderson went with me to give presentation to them. They were not interested! In Taiwan, sometimes people see something made in local, they find it no big deal. When this thing gets exported and then comes back again as an imported product, then they find it a big deal. Well, Elliot must be happy to hear that as the term "one-to-one" is really adopted. Jeremy must be happy also as this proves his claim that when we researchers get together, our voice is bigger. See, they finally listen! How much this "One Laptop Per Child" project contributes to this concept of one-to-one? The Chinese New Year is approaching. Wish you all a productive and peaceful year of the PIG! Tak-Wai _______________________________________________ connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http://mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion From tatar at vt.edu Thu Feb 8 22:04:30 2007 From: tatar at vt.edu (Deborah Tatar) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:04:30 -0500 Subject: a story In-Reply-To: <002601c74b71$d4f6cc00$6801a8c0@Chanx60> References: <002601c74b71$d4f6cc00$6801a8c0@Chanx60> Message-ID: <645EA648-F97B-4562-8073-2580A4E39700@vt.edu> This is excellent! "Memes" in action. D. Deborah Tatar, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, Psychology Member, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Rm. 121, 2202 Kraft Dr. Blacksburg, VA 24061 Email: tatar at vt.edu Website: people.cs.vt.edu/~dtatar (540)231-8457 (office) (540)231-9218 (fax) On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Tak-Wai Chan wrote: > Hi, > > This is Tak-Wai. I'm now in Canada. > > Last week, Oscar Lin, who works in a local university and > participated once or twice G1:1 meeting before, called me. He asked > me whether I'm interested in an 1:1 project as the local (provincial) > education bureau(?) has a Call for Proposal for a 1:1 project in K12. > > I said: 'Wait a minute! Do they use the term 'one-to-one' in the > Call?' > > 'Yes.' He answered. > > Then I told him that a few years ago, after I gave their university > a talk > on > learning with these 1:1 research, Rory McGreal suggested > to me to give a presentation to the local education bureau as they > must > be interested in it. > > Terry Anderson went with me to give presentation to them. They were > not > interested! > > In Taiwan, sometimes people see something made in local, they find > it no big > deal. > When this thing gets exported and then comes back again as an imported > product, > then they find it a big deal. > > Well, Elliot must be happy to hear that as the term "one-to-one" is > really > adopted. > Jeremy must be happy also as this proves his claim that when we > researchers > get together, > our voice is bigger. See, they finally listen! > > How much this "One Laptop Per Child" project contributes to this > concept of > one-to-one? > > > > > The Chinese New Year is approaching. > > Wish you all a productive and peaceful year of the PIG! > Tak-Wai > > > _______________________________________________ > connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org > subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http:// > mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oscarl at athabascau.ca Fri Feb 9 00:55:19 2007 From: oscarl at athabascau.ca (Oscar Lin) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:55:19 -0700 Subject: a story In-Reply-To: <002601c74b71$d4f6cc00$6801a8c0@Chanx60> References: <002601c74b71$d4f6cc00$6801a8c0@Chanx60> Message-ID: <45CB55F7.6070209@athabascau.ca> Hi all, This is for your information and to support the story by Tak-wai: http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/technology/emerge/ Have a great Year of Pig! Oscar Lin Athabasca University Tak-Wai Chan wrote: > Hi, > > This is Tak-Wai. I'm now in Canada. > > Last week, Oscar Lin, who works in a local university and > participated once or twice G1:1 meeting before, called me. He asked > me whether I'm interested in an 1:1 project as the local (provincial) > education bureau(?) has a Call for Proposal for a 1:1 project in K12. > > I said: 'Wait a minute! Do they use the term 'one-to-one' in the Call?' > > 'Yes.' He answered. > > Then I told him that a few years ago, after I gave their university a talk > on > learning with these 1:1 research, Rory McGreal suggested > to me to give a presentation to the local education bureau as they must > be interested in it. > > Terry Anderson went with me to give presentation to them. They were not > interested! > > In Taiwan, sometimes people see something made in local, they find it no big > deal. > When this thing gets exported and then comes back again as an imported > product, > then they find it a big deal. > > Well, Elliot must be happy to hear that as the term "one-to-one" is really > adopted. > Jeremy must be happy also as this proves his claim that when we researchers > get together, > our voice is bigger. See, they finally listen! > > How much this "One Laptop Per Child" project contributes to this concept of > one-to-one? > > > > > The Chinese New Year is approaching. > > Wish you all a productive and peaceful year of the PIG! > Tak-Wai > > > _______________________________________________ > connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org > subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http://mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion __ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communications received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. --- From jeremy.roschelle at sri.com Thu Feb 15 16:18:39 2007 From: jeremy.roschelle at sri.com (Jeremy Roschelle) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:18:39 -0800 Subject: this fits my sense of what G1on1 should be doing Message-ID: <45D4175F.1020302@sri.com> http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/20/magazines/business2/crowdcasting_whatworks.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2006112112 -- jeremy Jeremy Roschelle SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave, BN-376 Menlo Park CA 94025 phone: 650 859-3049 fax: 650 859-4605 From roypea at stanford.edu Fri Feb 16 02:12:13 2007 From: roypea at stanford.edu (Roy Pea) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:12:13 -0800 Subject: this fits my sense of what G1on1 should be doing In-Reply-To: <45D4175F.1020302@sri.com> References: <45D4175F.1020302@sri.com> Message-ID: Great idea. Prizes are back. NSF is considering them - see http://www.national-academies.org/morenews/20070123.html And the X prize http://www.xprize.org/ ... the Branson 25Mil for solutions to global warming http://business.techwhack.com/1876/greenhouse-effect/ provide other examples. the ideas are in the air! Roy On Feb 15, 2007, at 12:18 AM, Jeremy Roschelle wrote: > http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/20/magazines/business2/ > crowdcasting_whatworks.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2006112112 > > > -- > > jeremy > > Jeremy Roschelle > SRI International > 333 Ravenswood Ave, BN-376 > Menlo Park CA 94025 > phone: 650 859-3049 > fax: 650 859-4605 > > _______________________________________________ > connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org > subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http:// > mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion From yishaym at gmail.com Fri Feb 16 08:04:35 2007 From: yishaym at gmail.com (Yishay Mor) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:04:35 +0000 Subject: 1 million OLPCs on order Message-ID: In case you haven't seen this on /. : http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/021507-one-million-olpc-laptop-orders.html One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service, 02/15/07 Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for 1 million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday. -- ___________________________ Yishay Mor, Researcher, London Knowledge Lab http://www.lkl.ac.uk/people/mor.html http://yishaym.wordpress.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/yishaymor http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=yishaym%40gmail.com +44-20-78378888 x5737 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oscarl at athabascau.ca Sun Feb 25 00:37:38 2007 From: oscarl at athabascau.ca (Oscar Lin) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:37:38 -0700 Subject: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE LEARNING AND ORGANISATION - Call For Papers Message-ID: <45E069D2.3040507@athabascau.ca> Apologies for cross-posting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE LEARNING AND ORGANISATION Website: http://www.inderscience.com/ijmlo ISSN (Print): 1746-725X ISSN (Online): 1741-7268 Special Issue on: ?Information and Service Personalization for Mobile Learning? Guest Editors: Assoc. Prof. Fuhua (Oscar) Lin, Athabasca University, Canada Prof. Kinshuk, Athabasca University, Canada Prof. Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada Aims and Objectives =================== Mobile learning, or m-learning, has seen exponential growth in recent years, and increasing availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures, advances in wireless technologies and popularity of handheld devices have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education. While the opportunities that m-learning presents us with are new - the challenges have been around for quite some time; smaller screen sizes, limited processing power, and reduced input capabilities are just few of such issues that still hinder the effective learning process. These challenges mean that adapting existing e-learning services and content to m-learning is not a trivial task. Information and service personalization research has potential to find solutions to various problems in effective m-learning, and it is timely to ask: 1. What is the status of information and service personalization in m-learning? 2. What are the requirements for such m-learning personalization? 3. What are the unique issues that are specific to principles and technologies for modeling learners, building infrastructure/environments, designing learning content, and changing organizations for m-learning? 4. How to deal with context awareness and adaptation in m-learning? This special issue deals with the techniques and pedagogies for personalized, adaptive and intelligent m-learning, and aims to include issues that cross the boundaries of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and information systems to bring solutions in m-learning context. This collection will serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions and set future directions in information and service personalization for mobile learning. Submission of papers ==================== Full paper deadline June 5, 2007 Notification of acceptance and review results July 20, 2007 Revised submission deadline September 1, 2007 Feedback on revised submissions September 25, 2007 Camera-ready version deadline October 30, 2007 Special Issue Early 2008 Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the format requirements of the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organizations. Please note that all manuscripts submitted for review should be in MS Word, double-spaced throughout, and should have an abstract of no more than 150 words. In particular, the complete addresses, fax/phone numbers and e-mail addresses of the author(s) should be indicated only on the cover page. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting manuscripts are available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31). Please submit the paper by email as an attachment to oscarl at athabascau.ca, copied to kinshuk at ieee.org (Subject: IJMLO Special Issue Submission). You will normally receive an acknowledgment within 48 hours. Please provide email addresses for all authors. Review Process ============== Each paper will subject to the following review procedures: 1. It will be reviewed by the guest editors for general suitability for this publication. 2. If it is judged suitable, it will be sent to two international experts and a double-blind review process will take place. 3. Based on the recommendations of the reviewers, the guest editors will decide whether the particular article should be accepted as it is, revised or rejected. Guest Editors Assoc. Prof. Fuhua (Oscar) Lin, Prof. Kinshuk, and Prof. Rory McGreal Special Issue Editors of IJMLO Athabasca University Canada Phone: + 1-866-539-8664 E-mail: oscarl at athabascau.ca For more details, please visit: https://www.inderscience.com/ijmlo __ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communications received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. --- -- Best Regards Fuhua (Oscar) Lin Ph.D Associate Professor Program Coordinator for MSc IS, in Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, From mohameda at athabascau.ca Sun Feb 25 13:35:32 2007 From: mohameda at athabascau.ca (mohameda at athabascau.ca) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:35:32 -0700 (MST) Subject: First International M-Libraries Conference Message-ID: <23004.62.231.244.77.1172381732.squirrel@secure.athabascau.ca> Dear Colleagues, Below is the Call for Proposal for the The First International M-Libraries Conference: Information access anywhere, anytime. This International Conference will be held at The Open University of the UK, Milton Keynes. Dr. Mohamed Ally CALL FOR PAPERS The First International M-Libraries Conference: Information access anywhere, anytime 13th - 14th November 2007 at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK This conference, hosted by The Open University in partnership with Athabasca University, aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move,' via a growing plethora of mobile devices. The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers, managers and library practitioners to exchange experience and expertise and generate ideas for future developments. We are now announcing a call for papers for this conference. Themes will include: - service models for mobile library services - cost and sustainability factors for mobile library service development - the changing relationships between libraries and users resulting from innovation in mobile and ubiquitous computing partnership projects for developing integrated mobile services - reconfiguring library collection development to enhance mobile and ubiquitous access to resources - exploring methodologies for evaluating the impact of mobile and ubiquitous computing on library service development We expect that papers may include research reports, demonstrations of technical developments, practical case studies or reviews. Posters are also welcome. Please submit your abstracts (up to 300 words) to M-Libraries-Conference at open.ac.uk by April 2nd. These will be subject to peer review and authors will be notified by May 20th. 1. Papers or Presentation Papers or presentations should last no longer than 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussions. 2. Technical Demonstration Technical demonstrations should last no longer than 20 minutes, including hands-on activities, plus 10 minutes for discussions. 3. Poster presentation Posters will be displayed throughout the conference. Conference proceedings will be published online. The conference will be held at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes, 50 miles north of London. __ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communications received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. ---