IV International Virtual Conference on Educational Technologies in a Virtual Linguistic-Communicative Space

Conference venue: internet
Period: Mar. 2-4, 2011
Deadline for submitting full papers: Feb. 10, 2011

The International Coordinating Committee (Armenia, USA, Italy, Russia, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic) is continuing work on its project Creation of a Virtual Educational Space for the World Community. They invite scholars, educators, instructors and graduate students to participate in the work of the IV International Virtual Conference on Educational Technologies in a Virtual Linguistic-Communicative Space. 
 
The aim of the Conference is to unite Russian specialists and literary scholars from different countries, to shine light upon relevant issues in Russian studies, literature, language learning pedagogy in the humanities, to increase the effectiveness of international cooperation, and the culture of electronic communication by creating a Network, a new way of sharing experiences, a new innovative educational medium.
 
The Conference will be conducted utilizing Adobe Connect Pro Meeting and Skype.
Conference materials will be available on the websites http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/MESIIV and http://mesi.cliro.unibo.it

Main scholarly themes of the Conference will be as follows:

Paper proposals can be submitted in either English or Russian.

The requirements for formatting papers are the following:
 
– the length of the text must not exceed 4-5 pages 
– the text should be formatted using Microsoft Office Word 2003
– the font must be Times New Roman                                                                        
– the title of the article must be in 14 point bold faced
– the main text must be in 12 points, single spaced
– center alignment is required
– page size: А4, Orientation Portrait
– margins: top – 2 cm, bottom – 2.5 cm, sides – 2 cm
– paragraph must be indented by 5 spaces (0.8 cm)
– no page numbering
– tables: width 10.8 cm, 10 point font, no indentations

All pages references should be included in the text in brackets after the quotation (first the number of the source followed by a comma, then the page number), for example: [1, 98]. Sources should be provided at the end under the heading “Bibliography” numbered and in alphabetical order (10 point).

Aplpicants must provide their academic degree, title, current position, university or college, city, and country.

Application and paper should be sent as a separate file via e-mail to both:
Thomas Beyer, at tom.beyer@middlebury.edu
and Svetlana Minasyan, at s.minasyanpmesi@gmail.com 

Prof. Thomas Beyer
Russian Department, Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753, USA  
tel.: 001.802.388.7832
E-mail: tom.beyer@middlebury.edu
 
Prof. Svetlana Minasyan
Russian Department, MESI Yerevan Branch
Yerevan 0099, Republic of Armenia
tel.: 00374.10.393094
mobile: 00374.91.477050
fax: 00374.10.393094;
E-mail: s.minasyanpmesi@gmail.com