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[Susan Gold]

Call for Position Papers
Workshop: Education in Interactive Digital Storytelling
held in conjunction with ICIDS 2010

Date of the event: October 31st, 2010 (half-day, afternoon)
Location: Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
Website: http://icids2010.interactive-storytelling.de/workshop.html
Deadline for submission: 05 October 2010


Dear colleagues,

We are looking for position papers of colleagues with either an  
expertise, or experiences (good or bad!), in teaching Interactive  
Digital Storytelling in either artistically/creative or technically  
motivated seminars. We are also interested in industrial or other  
practical experience reports of the knowledge exchange necessary in  
interdisciplinary projects.

The last 10 years of research in the domain of Interactive Digital  
Storytelling have led to several advanced systems, which have been  
demonstrated on stories usually created by the systems’ inventors  
themselves. To leverage the potential of these systems and to create  
more and particularly more compelling interactive narratives, it is  
essential to involve experienced story creators as authors.

A key difficulty is that these authors may lack the technical and  
conceptual knowledge that is necessary to grasp the complexity of the  
systems produced by research groups. On the other hand, current  
storyworld creation by engineers often lacks the conceptual knowledge  
of creative principles for narratives and drama. Therefore, it is  
critical to find ways of education across the disciplines.

Within advanced University courses, video game schools, interactive  
writing curricula, art schools, digital storytelling training sessions  
etc., students are currently taught in narrative writing and future  
interactive story technologies for games and digital media. However,  
there is limited opportunity of sharing experiences and also of  
reusing educational material across disciplines.

This workshop aims at sharing knowledge, approaches and experiences in  
teaching Interactive Digital Storytelling, and will be structured by  
participant presentations and discussions. At the conference ICIDS  
2010, it takes place after a tutorial(*) in the morning, "Introduction  
to Interactive Story Creation", for authors who want to gain insights  
into the state of the art in story creation principles for highly- 
interactive storytelling.


Form of Submission:
2-4 pages A4 including pictures and references
E-mail to: education at interactive-storytelling.com
Deadline: 5th October 2010
Notification of acceptance for presentation: 15th October 2010

Organizers: Ulrike Spierling, Nicolas Szilas, Steve Hoffmann, Urs Richle
from the EU-FP7-Project IRIS (Integrating Research in Interactive  
Storytelling)

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(*) The tutorial needs extra registration, see http://icids2010.interactive-storytelling.de/

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Call for book chapters:
Educational Stages and Interactive Learning: From Kindergarten to  
Workplace Training
to be published by IGI Global
Editor: Dr. Jiyou Jia (Peking University, China)
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 3, 2010

Objective of the Book:
This book will investigate the history, status and future trends of  
interactive learning, introduce emerging technologies for interactive  
learning, and analyze the interactive learning cases in various  
educational stages and learning situations. It will be a comprehensive  
reference for the research of interactive learning, and more  
specifically, will differentiate the interactive learning at different  
development stages and learning scenarios.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Theories about interactive learning
The pedagogical history of interactive learning
Interactive learning in the long pre-ICT age
Emerging technologies for interactive learning in the ICT age
Interactive learning with educational games
Designing principles for interactive learning software and systems
Syllabus design with interactive learning technologies
Interactive learning in preschool education
Interactive learning in primary education
Interactive learning in secondary education
Interactive learning in higher education
Interactive learning in vocational education
Interactive learning in workplace training
Interactive learning in distance education
Interactive learning in life-long education
Interactive learning in special education
Future trends of interactive learning
……
Contributors with specialties in interactive learning, computer  
science, instruction design, developmental psychology, adult  
education, and other related fields, are all welcome!


Important Dates:
Phase 1:
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 3, 2010
Notify authors about the status of the proposed topics：November 1,  
2010
Full chapter Submission: February 28, 2011
Phase 2:
Review Process: February 28-April 30, 2011
Review Results to Authors: May 15, 2011
Phase 3:
Revised Chapter Submission:  June 15, 2011
Final Acceptance Notifications:  June 30, 2011
Submission of Final Chapters:  July 15, 2011
Final Deadline:  August 15, 2011

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded by mail to:
Dr. Jiyou Jia
Department of Educational Technology
Graduate School of Education
Peking University
100871 Beijing
China

Phone: +86 10 6275 9992
FAX:  +86 10 6275 1409
Email: jjy at pku.edu.cn
http://www.gse.pku.edu.cn/jyjia

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-- 
Susan Gold
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
- J. G. Ballard







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