Call for Articles: Games and simulations in social sciences education

Academic Exchange Quarterly <http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/index.htm>


Summer 2012, Volume 16, Issue 2


Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.

Articles on various topics plus the following special section: Games and simulations in social sciences education

Feature Editor:

Maria Mavrommati

PhD Program Leader, Lecturer
AKMI Metropolitan College

Thessaloniki, Greece <http://www.amc.edu.gr/>


mariamavrommath@gmail.com

Focus:

The proposed issue will focus on electronic games and simulations applications in the social sciences classroom. Strategies and methods of teaching history, sociology, cultural studies, economics, philosophy, political science etc. in primary, secondary or tertiary education settings with the use of computer games is of primary interest to this special issue. We welcome papers on theoretical as well as practical research on the field.

Who May Submit: 

Submissions by academic and independent researchers, graduate students,<http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufengs.htm> teachers, games and simulations industry etc. Please identify your submission with keyword: GAMES



Article submission deadline: End of February 2012

See details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short. <http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm#date> 

Early submission offers an opportunity to be considered for Editors' Choice<http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edchoice.htm>



Submission Procedure:


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First Fall IS Seminar Speaker: Doretta Gordon, PhD 9/9/2011

Please join us for the first IS seminar of the 2011-2012 school year. It will be Friday, September 9th.

Seminar is an event for the whole IS community. Seminar speakers share their experiences in the field as both practitioners and researchers. The faculty encourage students to attend seminar  not only to learn more about the happenings in the field but to take time to get know others in the program. Seminar is streamed online for our online students. Look for a message next week with the information to join us online.

Seminar Date: Friday 9/9
Time: 12:00 noon-1:00pm
Location: STB 3303
Speaker: Doretta Gordon, PhD
Doretta is an IS @ FSU alum, and she works for Southwest Research Institute where she is the Director of the Emerging Training and Performance Technologies Department. The seminar topic will be Expert Knowledge Transformation. "We depend on the experts in our organizations.  But what happens when they walk out the door, taking all that valuable wisdom with them?  Loss of expert knowledge has crippled organizations, causing them to have to recreate or rebuild their corporate advantage. Expert Knowledge Transformation is a 5-step process to proactively capture the tacit wisdom and turn it into valuable learning content to build up the workforce and extend the corporate ROI."

An evening with Professor Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate

Students and faculty are invited to attend an evening with Professor Sir Harold Kroto. Dr. Sir Harry, a professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at FSU, will discuss his own interdisciplinary interests and how these interests have impacted his own research including the research that helped him to win the Nobel Prize.

This lecture event is being held by the Advisory Committee for EPLS (ACE) on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 6:00 pm at the FSU Alumni Center. A reception (cash bar) will follow. This event is the first lecture in the interdisciplinary series, Educational Enlightenment.

Back-to-school Picnic!

(reposting from listserv message sent by ISSA)

What: ISSA Fall Picnic – Opening Social Potluck

Where: Lafayette Park, 501 Ingleside Ave, Tallahassee (see directions at the end of this email)

When: Saturday, September 10 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Who: You + family or guests. Local online students and alumni welcome.

Why: Come meet your fellow students, faculty, and alumni in an informal setting and get to know them better while they play!

Bring: This is a potluck, so please bring some food to share. This can be representative of your culture, your tastes, or your favorite aisle in the grocery store. If you're looking for suggestions about what to bring, we suggest avoiding chips and dessert since ISSA will be providing those. However, we won't turn away more sweet goodies! Also, you can bring along a football, Frisbee, or the like. We usually try to have a kickball game during these picnics. ISSA will provide chips, drinks, dessert, and paper goods.

Directions: From campus, head southeast on W Tennessee Street. Turn left onto Monroe Street. Turn right onto E Brevard Street. Turn left at the 2^ndcross street onto Gadsden Street. Turn right onto Ingleside Avenue.

Parking: You can park by the Lafayette Park Arts & Crafts Center (501 Ingleside Avenue), then walk down the hill to the pavilion. Look for the tennis courts, softball diamond, and crazy IS people.

Call for Participation: Foundations of Digital Games 2012

Foundations of Digital Games 2012

When: May 29 - June 1, 2012

Where: Raleigh, North Carolina

http://www.fdg2012.org

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

"FDG 2012, the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games,
is a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education
involving games, game technologies, gameplay, and game design. The goal of
the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including
new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications, educational
uses, and modes of play.

We invite researchers and educators to submit to FDG 2012 and share insights
and cutting-edge research related to game technologies and their use. FDG
2012 will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers, invited talks by
high-profile industry and academic leaders, panels, and posters. The
conference will also host an interactive game demo session as well as
Doctoral Consortium sessions. The Doctoral Consortium serves as a forum for
young researchers and graduate students to present their work, exchange
experiences with peers, discuss ideas for future research and receive
feedback from established games researchers and the wider FDG community. The game festival event will showcase the latest experimental and research games and game technology created by university students and academic or industrial research groups. In addition, the conference organizers invite workshop proposals. Workshops are full-day and half-day sessions focused on emerging game topics, particularly those that bridge different communities. "

Important Dates
Workshop Proposal Submission: 17 October 2011
Full Paper & Panel Submission: 19 December 2011
Doctoral Consortium Submission: 09 January 2012
Research & Experimental Games Festival Submission: 19 January 2012
Paper, Panel & Doctoral Consortium Author Notification: 01 March 2012
Research & Experimental Games Festival Notification: 01 March 2012
Poster and Demo Submission: 12 March 2012
Poster and Demo Notification: 25 March 2012
Camera Ready Full Papers & Research Games: 27 March 2012
Camera Ready Posters and Demos: 29 March 2012

SITE 2012 Call for Proposals

The SITE (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) 2012 conference will be held in Austin, TX on March 5-9, 2012.

The deadline for proposals is October 21st, 2011.

For more information, visit their website.

ISSA Picnic at the Rez!

Who: IS program students, faculty, and families. Alumni are welcome, too.
What: A potluck picnic
When: Saturday, July 23, 2011
Where: The FSU Reservation
Time: From 12–3 p.m.
Why: We need to stop and smell the roses . . . and visit with each other while cooling down from this Florida summer!

This picnic is a potluck, so please bring your favorite summer treat to share! ISSA will provide paper goods.

Possible activities include swimming, kayaking, wall climbing, and volleyball. Feel free to bring frisbees, footballs, or any other outdoor game type things we can all enjoy. Just not water balloons—they’re not allowed.

We’ll be congregating at the Gold Shelter in the Reservation. Entry to the Rez is free for students with a valid FSU id and $2 for non-students. For children ages 7–15, entry fee is $1 and children 6 and younger get in for free.

Online students, both local and elsewhere, are encouraged to join us. This is a Saturday event and a good opportunity for you to put a face, voice, and a personality to some of the names you may run across in your online classes. So come join us!

We hope to see y’all there!
–ISSA