GeoHistorian Website Is Online!

As part of our NEH-funded GeoHistorian Project we’ve created a website that will serve as a repository for teacher lesson plans, materials, and project-related odds and ends. The site can be accessed at http://www.rcet.org/geohistorian. Please take a look and let me know what you think!

RCET Receives NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant

Reposted from the RCET site:

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced 28 new awards for the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program to support innovative projects in the digital humanities. RCET received one of these grants for its Geo-Historian project. The Geo-Historian project is aimed at educating K-12 students to become local historians who create digital content for an audience that transcends the walls of their classrooms. Project activities will include the creation of curriculum on how to do digital, local history, training teachers how to apply it in their classrooms, and implementation in local schools. Student-created digital content will be accessible in relevant historical locations in the City of Kent via QR codes that can be scanned with mobile phones.

The project is scheduled to begin in September 2010 and run through March 2012. Project partners include the Kent Historical Society, the Kent City Schools, and students from Kent State University’s Honors College.

For the press release and a list of all NEH awards, please click here.

As one of the project directors I’m really looking forward to getting this project started, now that it’s finally received the funding it deserves. We’ve got lots of ideas of where to go with this one, so stay tuned!

RCETJ Call for Papers: Fall 2010

Call for Papers: Special Issue of RCETJ on Using Technology in Mathematics and Science Education (Fall 2010)

The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology (RCETJ) is seeking articles on using technology in mathematics and science education for a special issue, edited by Michael Mikusa and Lisa Donnelly, to be published in the fall of 2010. Manuscripts to be considered for this special issue should focus on utilization of technology in K-12 mathematics and science education. Articles may address issues of K-12 mathematics and science classroom technology integration from research-based, practical, or theoretical perspectives at any levels of academic and institutional contexts. Priority will be given to manuscripts that are well-grounded in mathematics or science education research literature and/or present novel research into the utilization of technology in mathematics and science education.

Manuscripts should be approximately 15-20 pages double-spaced and should conform to the journal’s specification (http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/information/authors). Please submit your manuscript by July 23, 2010 at www.rcetj.org, choosing either the category “Articles: Special Issue (Mathematics)” or ”Articles: Special Issue (Science)”.

Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent out by August 23, 2010. RCETJ is a refereed journal, and as such, all submitted manuscripts are subject to a comprehensive review process.

Final submissions for the online journal articles are expected to include multimedia evidence and sources that might include: images; illustrations; video; sound; animation; simulation; and links to online data and references.

For more information please visit http://www.rcetj.org or contact the guest editors Michael Mikusa – Mathematics (mmikusa@kent.edu) or Lisa Donnelly -science (ldonnell@kent.edu)

Important dates:
July 23, 2010: Author deadline for submitting completed manuscript and multimedia files
August 23, 2010: Editor deadline for reviewing papers and returning comments to authors
September 23, 2010: Author deadline for making revisions and submitting final papers and accompanying materials.
November 16, 2010: Expected publication date.

The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. The journal publishes the original, refereed work of researchers and practitioners twice a year in a multimedia electronic format. It is distributed free of charge over the World Wide Web to promote dialogue, research, and grounded practice, Learn more about RCETJ and review the Instructions to Authors at: www.rcetj.org

RCETJ Special Issue on special issue on Multimedia, Media Convergence and Digital Storytelling

The latest issue of RCETJ is now online at www.rcetj.org (vol 4, no. 2). It’s a special issue on multimedia, media convergence and digital storytelling that was guest edited by Joe Murray, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication here at Kent State.

The issue contains ten articles on a wide variety of topics related to the issue’s theme and include such topics as the use of video as an aid to teach chemistry, iPods for language learning in higher education, media convergence in a college newsroom, using Second Life for research, teaching, and collaboration, eportfolios, a tool to track censorship and prior review of high school media, and digital storytelling as a gateway to computer science.

This issue is also the last one that was published under the editorship of Karen Swan. Yours truly will be taking over at this point in time. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for publication (the Spring 2009 issue will be on blended learning), please visit the RCETJ website and take a look at the instructions for authors.

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RCETJ Special Issue on Learning While Mobile: Call for Manuscripts

This call has been out a few days and is posted on several sites related to mobile learning (please contact me directly with questions via the email address below or visit the RCETJ site:

The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. It seeks to provide unique avenues for the dissemination of knowledge within the allied fields of new media and educational technology consistent with new and emerging technology research, theory, application and best practices.

This special Spring 2008 multimedia edition seeks to explore innovative uses of mobile technologies and what it means to learn while mobile. Examples of topics include (but are not limited to), learning with mobile devices such as smartphones, handhelds, and other multimedia devices; mobile web; crossing boundaries between formal and informal learning; place-based learning; mobile networks for learning.

To have your article considered (even if it is presently in progress) please submit an abstract (250-500 words), BY DECEMBER 7, 2007 to the editors:

Mark van’t Hooft (mvanthoo@kent.edu)
Alison Bland (abland4@kent.edu)

Please put “Submission for RCETJ issue on Learning While Mobile” in the subject line your email message.
Important dates:

December 7, 2007: Deadline to submit abstracts (250-500 words)
December 14, 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection
February 22, 2008: Author deadline for submitting completed manuscript and multimedia source files
March 7, 2008: Editor deadline for reviewing papers and returning comments to authors
April 4, 2008: Author deadline for making revisions and submitting final papers and accompanying materials
April 25, 2008: Expected publication date.

Final submissions for the online journal articles are expected to include multimedia evidence and sources that might include: images; illustrations; video; sound; animation; simulation; and links to online data and references.

The journal publishes the original, refereed work of researchers and practitioners twice a year in multimedia electronic format. It is distributed free of charge over the World Wide Web to promote dialogue, research, and grounded practice.

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