[PN] Literacy / East-West relationships (26 Feb. 2004)

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:12:04 +0900

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* Conference Call for Proposals

National Reading Conference

"Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit a research proposal to the 54th annual
meeting of the National Reading Conference, the largest annual
conference devoted solely to literacy research. The National
Reading Conference is internationally known for the warm
welcome it extends to new members of our research community
and for high standards in intellectual inquiry and research.

This year, the conference will take place in beautiful and
historic San Antonio, Texas from December 1-4, 2004. It will
feature plenaries by leading scholars who will address the
critical issues in our field today. You may download a copy of
the Call for Proposals with complete and detailed guidelines at:
http://www.nrconline.org/cgi/t4cgi.exe/propsubmission.taf

All proposals will be submitted and reviewed online from the
link that appears at our conference web page:
http://www.nrconline.org
Proposals must be complete and conform to the Guidelines
for Submission. Only original work related to literacy not
presented or published elsewhere may be proposed for the
conference. Current membership in NRC is not required for
submitting proposals or attending the conference, but all
participants and attendees are required to register for
the conference.

This year, programs areas include:
Area 1: Pre-service Teacher Education in Literacy
Area 2: In-service Teacher Education/Professional
Development in Literacy
Area 3: Literacy Instruction and Literacy Learning
Area 4: Literacy Assessment, Evaluation, and Public Policy
Area 5: Early and Elementary Literacy Processes
Area 6: Adolescent, College, and Adult Literacy Processes
Area 7: Social, Cultural, and Political Issues and
Practices in Literacy
Area 8: Literacy Learning and Practice in Multilingual
and Multicultural Settings
Area 9: Children's, Young Adult, and Adult Literature
Area 10: Literacy and Technology/Media
Area 11: Study Groups
Area 12: Other Topics

Proposals must be submitted online to the appropriate area
no later than midnight EST March 1, 2004.Proposals that do
not fall within the main program areas listed above should
be submitted to Area #12.

We invite you to circulate this announcement and we
look forward to seeing you in San Antonio!"
Donald J. Leu
John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology
University of Connecticut
Homepage: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/index.html

* Reference Website

MERIDIAN WINTER 2004 ISSUE

"Announcing the "latest" Issue of Meridian: A Middle School Computer
Technologies Journal published at North Carolina State University in
Raleigh, North Carolina at: http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian.

Middle grade educators are constantly finding strategies to reach
outside their classrooms. This latest issue of Meridian celebrates
the numerous ways technology allows educators to expand beyond
the boundaries of place and time. In their pursuit of professional
excellence, teachers have turned to the Internet to seek out
development opportunities. Further articles expand the middle
school experience for students through the use of computer
technologies. The practitioner articles in this issue looks at
a variety of approaches to learning that challenge the limits
of language arts, social studies, and service learning with
technology. Students reach into their subjects and produce
multimedia, maps, and virtual histories transporting their
work from inside the classroom walls out to the world.

Our articles for the Winter 2004 edition include the following:
Update on the Living Article
Integrating Accessible Design into the Educational Web Design Process
Jackie Gottlieb
Features
Middleweb: A Dynamic Internet-Based Professional
Learning Community
Carolyn Faulkner-Beitzel, Marsha Ratzel, John Norton,
Bill Ivey, Beverly Maddox
Science Teachers' Interest in Online, Self-Directed Professional
Development Opportunities
David A. Slykhuis
Meeting the Challenge: Integrating Geographic Technology into
Today's Social Studies Classroom
Elizabeth Bloom and L. Jean Palmer-Moloney
Language Arts Comes Alive as Middle School Learners Become
Information Producers
Alice A. Christie
In Practice
Virtual History: Transposing Students to Another Time and Place
Cheryl Mason Bolick and Scott M. Waring
Service-Learning in Agriculture: Technology and
Subject Integration are Keys to Student Success
Carolyn Moser

To assist future authors, we have revised our guidelines for
submission to include strategies and suggestions for including
features such as video, sound, and other multimedia including
Flash* and PowerPoint*. Our readers who feel they have
experiences, research, or even practical applications of
technology in the middle schools to share are invited to
submit manuscripts to Meridian.

We hope that you find this edition as thought provoking
and innovative in the research and practice of middle school
technologies in the classroom!

Shannon H. White, Beth Snoke & Rebecca R. Reed
Co-Editors, Meridian Online Journal
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian
North Carolina State University College of Education, Raleigh, NC
E-Mail: beckey@ahlgren.com

* Periodical articles

McEnglish for the masses
DAVID MCNEILL, Japan Times, Tuesday, February 24, 2004
[McDonaldization of English conversation teaching in Japan - Ed.]
http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20040224zg.htm

The myth of the rice king
"Why does Vancouver have far more white male-Asian female
couples than vice-versa? The reasons are many and complex,
and sometimes surprising"
Michael McCullough, Vancouver Sun
[There is a degree of truth in many of the stereotypes, but it is
definitely not true that my Japanese wife was ever interested in
Western men. I accept her right to be and speak only Japanese - Ed.]
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.html?id=620efd49-a585-4e7b-bbdf-3109e1af8187

Weathering the Crisis
Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation
AlterNet, February 24, 2004
"Directly contradicting Bush and other right-wingers, the Pentagon
report maintains that climate change is not only real, it could strike
sooner and with much deadlier effect than is usually thought."
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17935

Bush Lies Uncovered
Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
AlterNet, February 23, 2004
"Separate statements by Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi
National Congress (INC), and U.S. retired Gen Jay Garner, who
was in charge of planning and administering post-war
reconstruction from January through May 2002, suggest
that other, less public motives were behind the war, none of
which concerned self-defense, pre-emptive or otherwise."
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17923

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
E-mail (including items for Papyrus News): steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp