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PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 15-09-2008


Sep 15, 2008

Dear reader,

this is the release of the weekly PROLEARN Academy Newsletter. With this approach we wish to inform you respecting the news in PROLEARN Academy about which are the new added elements, which are the events organized for the next week and some information about the projects registered in PROLEARN Academy.


*** News


IMCL2009 Second Call for Papers
Sent the: 2008-09-15


SoNet-08: Call for Participation 2
Sent the: 2008-09-15
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND APPLICATION TOOLS (SoNet-08)

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/News


*** Events in the next 7 days


Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice
Place: Cambridge, Date: 2008-09-14 - 2008-09-17
http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/

European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Place: Aarhus, Date: 2008-09-14 - 2008-09-19
http://www.ecdl2008.org/

MODSIM World Conference and Expo: Decision-Making in Complex Operating Environments Using Modeling and Simulation
Place: Virgina, Date: 2008-09-15 - 2008-09-18
Virginia Beach Convention Center, http://www.modsimworld2008.com/

African Conference on Curriculum Development, 2nd
Place: Gauteng, Date: 2008-09-16 - 2008-09-18
Kempton Park, http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=18301

European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL)
Place: Maastricht, Date: 2008-09-16 - 2008-09-19
Times of Convergence � Technologies Across Learning Contexts, Maastricht School of Management,http://www.ectel08.org/

Web 2.0 Expo New York
Place: New York, Date: 2008-09-16 - 2008-09-19
http://www.web2expo.com/

EC-TEL 2008
Date: 2008-09-17 - 2008-09-19
Third European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Times of Convergence: Technologies across learning contexts - Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17-19 2008 - http://www.ectel08.org

Council for Opportunity in Education: The Competitiveness Imperative, 27th annual
Place: Washington, D.C., Date: 2008-09-17 - 2008-09-20
http://www.coenet.us/ecm/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Annual_Conference&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=4311

Implementing e-Learning 2.0 Technologies
Date: 2008-09-18 - 2008-09-19
presented online by eLearning Guild, http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.24

European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) Conference
Place: Poitiers, Date: 2008-09-18 - 2008-09-19
Lifelong Learning in Higher Education � Networked Teaching and Learning in a Knowledge Society, http://www.eadtu.nl/conference-2008/

CMC2008 - 3rd International Conference on Concept Mapping
Date: 2008-09-22 - 2008-09-25
Tallinn, Estonia & Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 22-25, 2008. CMC2008, the Third International Conference on Concept Mapping has as a purpose bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in the use of the concept mapping tool first developed at Cornell University in 1972. It is being organized by Tallinn University in Estonia, University of Helsinki in Finland, and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. If follows on the success of the First Conference held in Pamplona, Spain in 2004 and the Second Conference held in San Jose, Costa Rica in 2006.

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events


*** New Call For Papers


KM&EL
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: 2008-11-15
Special Issue on Applied Knowledge Management in an Institutional Context


Call-Art: , Paper submission deadline: 2008-09-15


CfCP: E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: 2008-09-30
Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps


*** New job offers


The Learning Design Support Environment - Two post doctoral posts at the London Knowledge Lab

Two post doctoral level posts at the London Knowledge Lab (http://www.lkl.ac.uk/) School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London The Institute of Education, University of London

Research Associate on TEL/HCI

Research Associate at Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/jobs


*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure


Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1459 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 421 web sites, 71 mailinglists and 637 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 72990 for the feeds, of which 4677 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3066 entries, of which 21 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 85941 entries, of which 649 last week and for the blogs there are 180296 entries, of which 966 last week.

The feed project with the highest activity level last week was Handelsblatt.com, with 470 entries, 9 more than the top-project of the week before - Handelsblatt.com. The top mailinglist project last week was LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange, with 256 entries, 45 more than the top-project of the week before - LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange. The top blog project last week was Applesfera, with 59 entries, 4 more than the top-project of the week before - Read/WriteWeb.

There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase

We are continuously enlarging our project database.



*** No new projects were, unfortunately, added last week.