http://www.icctp.net/ Conferences This is a great web site for multicultural literary resources. New releases of multicultural education and brief overviews are provided. All books are a wonderful source of information for multicultural teaching in Elementary and Middle education. Additional McGraw-Hill Multicultural Education Texts and Related Publications links are provided as well. http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi_new/ CHI 2006 is the premier international conference for human-computer interaction. Conference activities have been significantly enhanced this year. Learn about our new CHI Courses and the various community submission categories (design, education, engineering, management, research, and usability) in the Call for Participation. http://www.chi2006.org/ The INTERACT '05 conference will highlight to both the academic and industrial world the importance of the Human-Computer Interaction area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications. http://www.interact2005.org/ The CSCW Conference is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, introduction, and use of technology that affect groups, organizations, communities and societies. Although work is an important area of focus for the conference, technology is increasingly supporting a wide range of recreational and social activities. As more and more people in all regions of the globe are able to interact online we are rapidly moving toward a Computer Supported Collaborative World. http://www.acm.org/cscw2006/ The Designing Interactive Systems series of conferences started in 1995, around the time that a very influential book was published. Terry Winograd collected together an excellent set of pioneers in this field in his book Bringing Design to Software. Since then the conference has progressed through DIS97, DIS2000, and DIS2002, to arrive at DIS2004. Each of these conferences has helped to develop and shape the field by bringing together designers, software developers, and many other disciplines. http://www.sigchi.org/dis2006/ The goal of this landmark conference is to bring together leading thinkers and activists on access to knowledge policy from North and South to generate concrete research agendas and policy solutions for the next decade. This conference will be among the first to synthesize the multifaceted and interdisciplinary aspects of access to knowledge, ranging from textbooks and telecommunications access to software and medicines. http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2k.html THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION ASSOCIATION The Sociology of Education Association (SEA) is an informal group of scholars and educators from both the fields of sociology and education, who meet annually to engage in discussion of issues at the intersection of sociology and education. SEA exists outside of the formal structure of any of the major professional associations. To belong to SEA you do not need to be a member of ASA, AERA, or any other organization. http://www.lmri.ucsb.edu/resources/sea/ For over 30 years the Society has sponsored conferences which are educational in nature and cover a wide range of application areas such as distance learning, interactive multimedia in education and training, development of interactive instruction materials, performance support systems applications in education and training, interactive instruction delivery, and information literacy. These conferences provide attendees with an opportunity to become familiar with the latest technical information on application possibilities, on technologies, and on methodologies for implementation. In addition they provide a venue for interaction with other professional and managerial individuals. http://www.salt.org/salt.asp?ss=l The weblogging community continues to evolve: weblogs are gaining more and more exposure, the number of bloggers continues to grow and the contribution of individual bloggers is becoming significant and compelling. The dynamics of the blogosphere, found in trackbacks, citation links, blog-rolls, comments, tags, shared topics and interests provides a facinating domain of study for researchers from all academic and commercial fields including text mining, social network analysis, computational linguistics, business and marketing intelligence, libarary sciences, taxonometrics, graph theory and data visualization. http://www.blogpulse.com/www2006-workshop/ In achieving the strategic goals of the second Information Technology in Education (ITEd) Strategy to empower teachers with information technology (IT), the HKITEC 2006 will be organized to enhance sharing of information, dissemination of good practices and provide a platform for practitioners to share and teachers to establish collaboration. http://www.hkitec2006.org/ The 13th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2005) will be the next in an established series of annual international conferences highlighting quality research and development related to the field of computers in education. ICCE conferences are widely regarded as the premier conference series on computers in education in the Asia-Pacific region. http://www.icce2005.servy.net/ Theme: Advanced Technologies for Life-Long Learning http://www.ask.iti.gr/icalt/2006/ Our conference should include analyses of the impacts, policies, system concepts, and methodologies related to information technologies and changes in society and culture. “Some of the key information technologies include computers and telecommunications; the sites of social change include home life, workplaces, schools, communities and diverse organizations, as well as new social forms in cyberspace.” It should favour the practice of interdisciplinarity: between policy makers, social scientists, communication scientists, computer scientists or informaticians, industrialists… The success of the Conference may well depend on having an appropriate balance of scholars and practitioners in the field. http://www.hcc7.org/ The main theme of the conference is Design and Emotion. Contributions are invited on the overall theme and in particular on the following sub-themes: Attachment and behaviour; Brand and identity; Design and emotion- methodological issues; Design and emotion- theoretical issues; Emotion and culture;Interest, surprise and delight, Senses; Semantics; Space and Environment; and Unpleasant emotions. http://www.designandemotion.org/de83.php The conference for researchers using Telemedicine, Internet and Virtual Reality in Health Care: Medicine, Psychology and Neuroscience. http://www.cybertherapy.info/ The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=3 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education http://www.aace.org/conf/site/ World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications. http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/ The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good. http://www.asanet.org/index.ww Join ACA for a uniting of knowledge, cultures, and human experience. The theme for the convention is Uniting the Americas: Technology, Intercultural Communication, and Public Affairs. Each day of the convention features an internationally recognized keynote speaker and numerous panels of scholars presenting original academic research binding the themes of the convention: (1) technology, (2) intercultural communication, and (3) public affairs. http://www.americancomm.org/ A calendar of professional development events is provided to address the effective use of technology in higher education. http://www.wcet.info/events/ This site provides a listing of past and upcoming SC conferences. One highlight of the conference is the “largest exhibition on record” of technological systems and services. http://www.sc-conference.org/ This interdisciplinary conference will draw together K-12 educators and counselors, university teacher educators, state coordinators and policy makers, school and university administrators, staff from youth-serving community based organizations. This includes work on service-learning, moral education, character education, democratic education, violence prevention, and substance abuse prevention. For a country to flourish and grow, and for a democracy to sustain liberty and justice, the next generation of citizens must acquire the civic skills, abilities and commitments to govern. This interdisciplinary conference will draw together researchers and practitioners. http://www.civicedconf.org/civiced.html A listing of conferences and workshops is provided. http://www.nais.org/conferences/index.cfm?Itemnumber=145874 The NABE ANNUAL CONFERENCE is the only one in the U.S. dedicated to exploring topics of interest to teachers, administrators and parents of English language learners. Topics from previous years include: second language acquisition; bilingual education; accountability; assessment; teacher training; and special education. http://www.nabe.org/conference.html Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide. http://www.apa.org Welcome to AERA's Annual Meeting web site. http://www.aera.net/annualmeeting/