WEBSITE: http://smart2013.edusoft.ro
E-MAIL: smart@edusoft.ro
Social Media in Academia: Research and Teaching provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest research on social media the challenges in the educational context. Our conference is essential for professionals aiming to improve their understanding of social media at different levels of education as well as researchers in the fields of e-learning, educational science and information and communication sciences and much more.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Academic applications for podcasting
Academic events through social-media (Eventful, The Hotlist, Meetup.com, Upcoming, Eventseer, AllConferences)
Analytics for social media
Budgeting for social media in academic organizations
Case studies for successful social media commuting and presenting
Communication, both internal and external.
Diagramming and visual collaboration in educational institutions
Document Managing and Editing Tools: Docs.com, Dropbox.com, Google Docs, Syncplicity
Executive and employee social media education and training.
How do universities deal with social media obstacles/shortcomings
Impact of social media on the quality of the didactic process
Integrating social media and traditional media within the academic environment
Livecasting for education
Location-based social networks (Facebook places, Foursquare, Geoloqi, Google Latitude, Gowalla, The Hotlist)
Mobile social media and mobile teaching/learning
Personal Learning Environments
Photography and art sharing (deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr) and the new education
Research in Social Media: journals, books, conferences, events
Social bookmarking (or social tagging): CiteULike, Delicious, Diigo, Google Reader, StumbleUpon, folkd
Social media tools for schools and universities
Social networking used in the new academic environment (ASmallWorld, Bebo, Cyworld, Diaspora, Facebook, Google+, Hi5, Hyves, IRC, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Plaxo, Tagged, Tuenti, XING, Yammer)
Social news: Digg, Mixx, Social i my2i, Newsvine, NowPublic, Reddit
Teaching through presentation sharing (Prezi, scribd, SlideShare)
The use of Content Management Systems for education (Drupal, Joomla, Plone, Siteforum, WordPress)
The advertising of universities using social media
Using blogs (Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Open Diary, WordPress, Xanga) for educational purposes
Using microblogging (Google Buzz, Identi.ca, Twitter) for communicating academic events
Using video sharing for education (Dailymotion, Metacafe, Nico Nico Douga, Openfilm, sevenload, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube)
Using wikis (PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, Wikimedia, Wikispaces) in Science Classes
Deadlines
February 10, 2013: submission of abstracts and intentions of participation
February 20, 2013: submission of full papers, by e-mail to smart2013@edusoft.ro
March 20, 2013: notification of acceptance
April 20, 2013: registration
May 20, 2013: submission of final version of the papers
WEBSITE: http://smart2013.edusoft.ro
E-MAIL: smart@edusoft.ro