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Attached below is the TCC 2008 call for papers and presentations. We are looking forward to another exciting online conference and hope that you will consider submitting a paper or proposal for a general session. Feel free to forward this message to your interested colleagues and collaborators.

Thirteenth Annual TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 15-17, 2008 Pre-conference dates: April 2-3, 2008

The New Internet: Collaboration, Convergence, Creativity, Contrast, and Challenges

Submission deadline: December 28, 2007 [| Homepage]:

CALL FOR PROPOSALS TCC 2008 invites faculty, support staff, librarians, counselors, student affairs professionals, students, administrators, and consultants to submit proposals for papers and general sessions related to the conference theme.

THEME The new Internet is a global workspace for collaboration and sharing while providing forums for different voices, new challenges, and creativity. People, technologies, and perspectives have converged, and yet there is a greater diversity of tools to communicate, collaborate, create, and compete. Today, the Internet is proliferated with "weapons of mass collaboration." (See Wikinomics by Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams, 2006)

Within this global venue, how do faculty, staff, students and the communities they serve converge, collaborate, innovate and produce useful learning outcomes? What best practices have emerged in teaching, learning and research? Is Internet-based learning effective and worth the effort? How can we efficiently assess student learning? Which tools will work best for us? How do we support faculty and staff? How do we overcome our feelings of being overwhelmed? How do we keep up?

Young adults have flocked to online communities that continue to play important roles in their daily and social life. How can we learn from this? What can we learn from our students? How can we build on our students' expertise in digital media, personal publishing and social networking?

Smart institutions and organizations will learn how to engage the online behavior of students prior to college life. How do organizations embrace and take advantage of such technologies as open source and open educational content? How can organizations manage the blurring of "play" and "work?"

As the Net Generation turns to Web 2.0, will the Internet divide gap widen? What is the promise of virtual worlds such as Second Life? What roles can mobile devices play in learning? Are we making headway with intercultural understanding, diversity and accessibility?

TOPICS. TCC will feature papers and general sessions on the continuing evolution of distance learning, online communities and collaboration, social networking, and best practices of instructional technology. The coordinators are interested in a broad range of topics that highlight evolving uses and issues in educational technology. These include and are not limited the following:

podcasts, etc) collaboration Life, etc)
 * Online, hybrid, blended or other modes of technology enhanced learning
 * Emerging Internet tools for teaching and learning (blogs, wikis,
 * Technology applications that facilitate communication and
 * Building and sustaining learning communities
 * Instructional models for learning in virtual environments (Second
 * Distance learning including mobile learning
 * Ubiquitous and life-long