From: "m-ICTE2005 Conference" m-icte2005@formatex.org To: katja.pura@oulu.fi Subject: m-ICTE2005 Conference in Spain News update! Sender: "m-ICTE2005 Conference" m-icte2005@formatex.org Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:43:11 +0100 Reply-To: "m-ICTE2005 Conference" m-icte2005@formatex.org

3rd International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs in Education (m-ICTE2005) Caceres (Spain), June 8-10th 2005 www.formatex.org/micte2005 http://www.formatex.org/micte2005/esindex.es Email: m-icte2005@formatex.org Abstracts deadline: March 30th / Early registration: April 15th

Dear colleague,

Further to our recent invitation to you to take part of the forthcoming 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Information & Communications Technologies in Education (m-ICTE2005), we are pleased to complete this invitation with these up-dated data on the conference.

PARTICIPATION About 300 proposals have been accepted so far. We encourage you to join in these exciting conference presenting your scientific proposals, research papers, technical notes, project descriptions, or work in progress reports. Check the accepted proposals so far at: http://www.formatex.org/micte2005/acceptedabstracts.php

SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION DEADLINES EXTENDED Deadline for abstracts submission has been extended to March 30th, although an early submission is appreciated to avoid saturation of the online submission system the days before the deadline. Also early registration deadline has been extended to April 15th to allow new proposals to fall within this new deadline.

IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: March 30th, 2005 Full paper submission deadline: April 30th, 2005

Early registration deadline: April 10th, 2005 Late registration: From April 11th to June 8th, 2005 (on-site).

SPECIALISED WORKSHOP Analyzing Learning and Teaching Interactions by Using Computerized Tools Delivered by: Elchanan Gazit (Tel-Aviv University & LIRT Lab CRI, University of Haifa, Israel) Tamar Wittenberg-Szekely (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Registration procedure will be announce soon (included in the conference fee) http://www.formatex.org/micte2005/workshops.htm

SESSION WORKSHOPS

1. Open Standards and Open Source Developments
2. e-Learning Standards: Learning Objects and Repositories
3. Challenges of Mobile Learning (mLearning) Technologies in Education
4. Multimedia and ICTs in Science Education
5. Quality Assurance in Distance and Distributed Learning Systems
6. Constructivistic Learning on the Web
7. Communities of Practice and Organizational Learning
8. Integrated Knowledge Managment (KM) and Learning Solutions
9. Design of Interactive Visual Interfaces

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

• BOOK: Papers which are not suitable for the journals will be published in

the book "Recent Research Developments in Learning Technologies (2005)", which will be edited in a citeable form (ISBN) and internationally distributed. These proceedings serve as major sources in the IT & Education community. The printed Proceedings Volume is intended to be ready for distribution at the beginning of the conference. For this reason all the potential contributors are strongly encouraged to strictly follow the deadlines established.

-JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES: We are pleased to announce that some leading international publications will edit special issues based on (research) papers presented at m-ICTE2005. Papers on researches in progress, projects descriptions, technical notes, divulgation columns, and similar papers are very interesting for the Conference, but can be not considered for the journal publications (they will be included in the book edition).

A selection of authors of very good research papers will be invited to write extended versions for publication in several special issues. At this moment we are discussing with several journal which will be announce in further communication. As an example we briefly list the special issues produced in the last edition of the conference: m-ICTE2003

• Journal of Educational Media (JEM) Volume 29 Number 3 October 2004.

Special Issue: Content and affect in E-learning: contributions from the Second International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs (mICTE2003). Guest Editors: Janet McCracken and A. Méndez-Vilas, published by Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17439884.asp

• International Journal of Learning Technology (IJLT) special issue,

published by Inderscience. At this moment being produced and of which publication is imminent. https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=87

• Journal of Digital Contents (JDC) special issue Vol 2. N.1 (2004)

published by FORMATEX Research Center. http://www.formatex.org/jdc

EHIBITORS/SPONSORS Now that the Conference is approaching we have some featured information which could be of your interest as possible sponsor of the Conference. We are making agreements with some outstanding companies involved in the field of new technologies in education which will be setting exhibition areas or participating in some sponsorship modalities at m-ICTE2005 Conference including:

• Promethean (United Kingdom) http://www.prometheanworld.com/uk/
• Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group http://www.tandf.co.uk/
• Idea Group, Inc. http://www.idea-group.com
• Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com

As you can see on the Conference website, several exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities are offered, for a wide range of budgets. Standard Commercial stands cost EUR 1200 (please see exhibitions details on Standard Stand). If your company is interested in reserving space for a stand, please download the "Exhibitor Form" from the website and submit it to m-icte2005@formatex.org (Borja Gonzalez, Exhibition/Sponsorship Manager) http://www.formatex.org/micte2005/exhibition.htm http://www.formatex.org/micte2005/sponsor.htm

CALL FOR SCIENTIFIC REVIEWERS In order to produce high quality proceedings, we are calling for external scientific reviewers. If you are interested in taking part of the Conference as reviewer, please contact us with your contact data, field(s) of expertise and your list of publications. The list of Scientific Reviewers will also appear in the Conference publication.

VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION Thinking in those researchers directly related with the Conference topics which are not able to attend it in person (usually due to insufficient funding to cost all the conference expenses: travel, accommodation, registration, etc.), a Virtual Participation modality has be established, with the same validity than "physical" one (certificates, publications, etc.). For this type of presentations, authors will be requested to send "virtual posters" (for example, "Power Point" presentations), to be exposed at the PCs available at the posters rooms, as well as the corresponding paper (if any) for review. Every virtual paper/poster will have an electronic forum associated, which will allow interested researchers and authors to e-interact, even after the end of the Conference. Authors of these type of posters are requested to reply or discuss the commentaries/questions on their paper(s). If you are interested in this type of participation, please indicate it both in your abstract and your pre- and registration forms.

COOPERATION PROJECTS: SEARCH FOR PARTNERS m-ICTE2005 will also serve as a platform for searching for partners for transnational collaboration projects, specially for the EU Sixth Framework Program (NETworks of Excellence and Integrated Projects). If you are interested in taking part of this Conference feature, please send us the corresponding form available at the website.

RESEARCH GROUPS Send details on your group's activities (research topics, members, projects, publications...). A booklet with all participating groups will be distributed at the Conference

SOCIAL PROGRAM The Social Program for accompanying persons is already available at the conference website in its preliminary form (detailed schedules to be determined)

Thank you for your time, and we look forward meet you in Caceres in June!

Borja Gonzalez m-ICTE2005 Secretariat E-mail: m-icte2005@formatex.org www.formatex.org/micte2005 http://www.formatex.org/micte2005

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