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PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 13-10-2008


Oct 13, 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.


*** Events in the next 7 days


Internet � Education � Science
Place: Vinnytsia National Technical University, Date: 2008-10-10 - 2008-10-14


ASSETS 2008
Place: Halifax, Date: 2008-10-12 - 2008-10-15
the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS) Conference on Computers and Accessibility

WWW/Internet
Place: Freiburg, Date: 2008-10-13 - 2008-10-15
International Conference WWW/Internet, sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS)

Handheld Learning
Place: London, Date: 2008-10-13 - 2008-10-15


Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age
Place: Freiburg, Date: 2008-10-13 - 2008-10-15
International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS)

Colloquium on Online Simulations, Role-Playing, and Virtual Worlds
Place: Hong Kong, Date: 2008-10-13 - 2008-10-17
Colloquium on Online Simulations, Role-Playing, and Virtual Worlds, Hong Kong University

Video on the Net (VON) Europe
Place: Rome, Date: 2008-10-14 - 2008-10-16


Electronic Media Management Development Programme
Place: Montreal, Date: 2008-10-14 - 2008-10-22


Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) Distance Education Workshop
Place: South Bend, Date: 2008-10-14 - 2008-10-15
Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) Distance Education Workshop, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA

Innovative Learning
Place: San Jose, Date: 2008-10-14 - 2008-10-16
Innovative Learning Conference, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA

Internet Research 9.0
Place: Copenhagen, Date: 2008-10-15 - 2008-10-18
Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place, sponsored by the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)

Internet Librarian
Place: London, Date: 2008-10-15 - 2008-10-17
Internet Librarian International 2008: Translating 2.0 Technologies for Tangible Benefits and Transparencies

Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) Knowledge Exchange
Place: Toronto, Date: 2008-10-15 - 2008-10-17


Impact of Pen-based Technology in Education
Place: West Lafayette, Date: 2008-10-15 - 2008-10-16
Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology in Education

European Conference on Games Based Learning
Place: Barcelona, Date: 2008-10-16 - 2008-10-17


Streaming Media Europe
Place: London, Date: 2008-10-16 - 2008-10-17


International Symposium and Conference on English Language Teaching Materials
Place: Edmonton, Date: 2008-10-16 - 2008-10-19
Celebrating Connections � Learning, Teaching, Scholarship, 5th annual, hosted by the University of Alberta and MacEwan College

International Symposium and Conference on English Language Teaching Materials
Place: Alor Gajah, Date: 2008-10-16 - 2008-10-17


International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Place: Edmonton, Date: 2008-10-16 - 2008-10-19
Celebrating Connections � Learning, Teaching, Scholarship, 5th annual, hosted by the University of Alberta and MacEwan College

Second Language Research Forum
Place: Honolulu, Date: 2008-10-17 - 2008-10-19
31st annual, University of Hawaii

Standing Conference of Presidents of the International Council of Distance Education
Place: Shanghai, Date: 2008-10-18 - 2008-10-19


Internet Librarian: Beyond 2.0 � User-Focused Tools and Practices
Place: Monterey, Date: 2008-10-20 - 2008-10-22


Internet Librarian: Beyond 2.0 � User-Focused Tools and Practices,
Place: Monterey, Date: 2008-10-20 - 2008-10-22


International Conference on University Teaching and Learning
Place: Alam, Date: 2008-10-20 - 2008-10-21


European Distance and E-Learning Network Research Workshop,
Place: Paris, Date: 2008-10-20 - 2008-10-22


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


*** New Call For Papers


Call for Chapter Proposals for EDM Handbook
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: 2008-10-31
Call for Chapter Proposals for Handbook of Educational Data Mining

Call for papers: Second Intl Conf on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: 2008-10-30
Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility May 7-9, 2009, Hammamet - TUNISIA http://www.icta.rnu.tn

VEWAEL CFP: VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND WEB APPLICATIONS FORELEARNING
Call-Art: Conference, Paper submission deadline: 2008-12-10
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND WEB APPLICATIONS FOR ELEARNING TRACK at the 4th Int. Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2009) http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICIW09.html Venice, Italy, May 24th-28th, 2009 Submission Deadline: December 10th, 2008

The First International Workshop on Learning with Games - IWLG 2009
Call-Art: Workshop, Paper submission deadline: 2009-01-14
http://www.webist.org/IWLG.htm 25 March, 2009 - Lisboa, Portugal In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on eb Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST 2009

Call for Special Issue Educational Technology & Society
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: 2008-12-15
Technology Support for Self-Organized Learners

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



*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure


Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 1460 projects, of which 235 are newsfeeds, 95 newsletters, 421 web sites, 71 mailinglists and 638 blogs. The number of caught entries totals 78493 for the feeds, of which 4562 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 3147 entries, of which 25 were retrieved last week, for the mailinglists there are 88344 entries, of which 640 last week and for the blogs there are 173153 entries, of which 656 last week.

The feed project with the highest activity level last week was Handelsblatt.com, with 524 entries, 159 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 282 entries, 7 less than the top-project of the week before - LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange. The top blog project last week was Marginal Revolution, with 42 entries, 27 more than the top-project of the week before - E-Clippings.

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.