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DIVERSE 2010

6-7-2010 t/m 8-7-2010

The DIVERSE Conference is an annual gathering of academics, teachers, technologists and students that engages participants in an ongoing dialogue on the effective uses of visual media in education.
The Tenth DIVERSE Conference will be held from Tuesday 6th until Thursday 8th July, 2010 University of Southern Maine- Portland, Maine, USA
The event includes a large number of presentations, discussions and workshops on a range of topics related to the conference themes:
[1] Pedagogy and assessment
[2] Tools and content oriented applications
[3] Projects and cases: implementation and sustainability
[4] People and technology: societal aspects

Call for Papers
The Call for Papers is now officially open. We kindly invite you to submit papers related to one of the following topics:
[1] Pedagogy and assessment of the use of visual media in learning and teaching; theories and conceptual frameworks;

[2] Visual technologies for learning and teaching; tools for creating and manipulating visual resources. Innovative technology to produce, manage and distribute media. Including videoconferencing and shared virtual reality.

[3] Projects and case studies, both innovative use and widespread practice; best practice. Reports on research projects in this domain. Studies on the use of visual media.

[4] People and technology: the social implications of the use of visual media in education. Novel or creative uses of visual technologies in learning and teaching; video and the arts.

You can download the abstract form.

• Abstracts must be submitted by Friday March 15th, 2010.
• Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words;
• All abstracts will be peer reviewed prior to acceptance after which you will be notified whether your abstract has been accepted or not;
• Accepted papers will be invited to extend their abstact into a full paper, considered for publication in the conference proceedings which will be published Spring 2011;
• If you are unfamiliar with the themes, levels of technicality or academic register of DIVERSE, please review some of the abstracts for previous DIVERSE Conferences in Haarlem and Aberystwyth .
• Abstracts must be submitted to diverse2010.maine@gmail.com
  

Registration, conference fees and accommodation
Conference fee $500.00 - included are:

Welcome reception
Conference handbooks and materials
Breakfast, Lunch and refreshments during the conference

The conference dinner on July 7th will be a traditional Maine Lobster bake for $25.00 per person (accompanying partners welcome at the conference dinner)

There will be a limited block of single en-suite accommodation on the USM Gorham Campus – first come basis (shuttle to the Portland Campus included). Rooms at hotels close to the Portland Campus will also be blocked on a first come basis.

Masterclasses
We are offering delegates the opportunity to register for optional Masterclasses, which will take place on Wednesday July 7th. There will be two Masterclasses facilitated by experts in practical use of media technologies for educational purposes. They will be providing a hands-on approach to working with technologies.

Conference web-site
The web-site for DIVERSE 2010 which is the main information source for the event. It will be updated on a weekly basis from January to the the conference itself. You can find further information on travel, location and social life in Portland, Maine along with information on the conference itself.