Call for papers due December 20th, 2008
Date of the event: Friday, February 20th, 2009
Time: 9:50 AM - 18:00 PM
Location: Nagoya, Aichi
Venue: NUCB Graduate School, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (one stop from Nagoya Train Station)
Nishiki 1-20-1, Naka-ku, Nagoya, 460-0003
Webpage:
http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jpRegister:
http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/register.htmlCall for papers:
http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/cfp2009.pdfKeynote speakers
Dr Gary Motteram, University of Manchester, UK / IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG coordinator
Pete Sharma, Oxford Brookes University, UK / author of Blended Learning and Business English (Macmillan)
Nik Peachey, ICT Consultant
Wireless Ready is a simultaneous real and virtual world / Second Life event.
There will be a Third International Wireless Ready Symposium examining the role of digital technologies and language education on 20th February 2009 in Nagoya.
Proposals are currently being accepted for papers in the following or related areas:
- blended learning
- wireless learning environments and language learning
- digital language labs
- digital technologies and autonomous learning
- Interactive Whiteboards in the language classroom
- Virtual learning environments and language education (Second Life)
- Web 2.0 and language learning
- interactivity and CALL
- collaboration in the technology-enhanced classroom
- improving feedback in CALL technologies
- computer aided assessment and testing
- case studies on podcasting, wikis, blogs, photosharing, online video
- mobile learning
- one-to-one laptop programs
- ICT policy and language learning in wireless environments
- traditional versus emerging wireless technologies in CALL
- teacher training and professional development using wireless technology
- wired versus wireless learning environments
- other proposals related to the conference title
Abstracts of approximately 250 words should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments by December 20th 2008, citing your name, institutional affiliation and short biography (50 words) to
michael.thomas@nucba.ac.jp
