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PacCALL 2005 Conference — First Call for Papers

The Second Pacific Association for CALL Conference (PacCALL) will be held at Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China from 1-3 December 2005.

The theme for this year’s conference is: CALL Directions: New Identities and New Communities

Confirmed keynote speakers:

* Bernd Rueschoff, Univ. of Essen, Essen, Germany, President of EuroCALL
* Mike Levy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Abstracts (max 250 words) for Papers (45 minutes); Demonstrations (45 minutes); and Posters sessions are now invited. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 31 July, 2005.

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We’re in the midst of conducting our first online survey of teachers and students as part  of our laptop research project.  For those interested in conducted online surveys, here’s an interesting article.  We’re using Survey Monkey–I’ll let  you know how it works out.

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Here are some new pictures of our son, Danny

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Researchers from UC Berkeley and USC have received a $3.3 million grant to investigate Kids Informal Learning with Digital Media.  The project Website provides an interesting overview of the framework for addressing this issues, as well as the research methods deployed.

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I’m sure you all read The Onion, but do you also read The Swift Report?

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