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FINAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS

the 10th DIVERSE Conference: use of visual media in education.
Disseminating Innovative Visual Educational Resources for Students Everywhere

University of Southern Maine - Portland, Maine, USA

6, 7, 8 July 2010

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW!
http://www.usm.maine.edu/pdc/diverse

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 from the DIVERSE Website

* Abstracts must be submitted by Monday April 12, 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 http://www.usm.maine.edu/pdc/diverse
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.

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