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NMC Symposium on Mashups - Call for Proposals

Tue, 02/05/2008 - 15:57 — Brett Bixler
NMC Symposium on Mashups
April 1 - 3, 2008
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The NMC Symposium on Mashups, "Call for Proposals" officially opens today!  The deadline to submit your proposal is Monday, February 18.


This Symposium is the eleventh in the NMC's Series of Online Symposia and will take place April 1-3, 2008 in both 3D and flat web environments. The theme of this symposium draws from the 2008 Horizon Report and will focus on the topics of scholarly uses of mashups.
 

Symposium Format and Topics

The symposium will be conducted either in the virtual world of Second Life as well as the LearningTimes web environment. Sessions will be conducted live and will incorporate a variety of visuals and rich media, and are generally about 45 minutes in length, with about one-third to one-half that time devoted to dialog with participants using Second Life voice chat or the LearningTimes chat space.

Proposals are encouraged on the topic in any of the following areas, but this list is not exhaustive and selections are not limited to these categories:

  • Tools and methods for creating educational mashups
  • Projects which demonstrate creative use of data mashups
  • New approaches to data visualizations based on mashups
  • Strategies for encouraging development of mashups
  • Applications of data mashups

Proposals may be submitted online at http://www.nmc.org/2008-spring-symposium/call
 
Please note:  All presenters will be required to do a technical run-through of their session with conference staff in advance of the Symposium. If your proposal is accepted, you will receive further information with the acceptance notice.