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5-8 July 1998, in Perth, Western Australia

Submission guidelines

An abstract of approximately 600 words will be submitted for review by a national panel of referees by 13 March 98.

If it is accepted as appropriate for presentation, you will be notified by 17 April and asked to prepare your paper in full for submission by 22 May 98, or by 12 June 98 in the case of Virtual conference papers.

Please refer to the Presentation guidelines when planning the type of presentation you wish to give.

Abstracts

 Abstracts of 600 words are to be submitted by email, in the body text of a message addressed to:
    edtech98-abstracts@cleo.murdoch.edu.au

Please note the following

  1. Put "EdTech98 Abstract" and the full name of first author in the subject field, and ensure that your contact details and organisation identity details appear in full in your signature.

  2. Do not send an abstract as an attachment. Email to edtech98-abstracts@cleo is forwarded to all members of the Program Committee and "body text only" is specified.

  3. Please indicate clearly the type of proposal (face to face conference Dilemma, Demonstration or Research, or Virtual conference) as defined in Presentation guidelines.

  4. If you cannot submit your abstract via email you may post a floppy disk to the EdTech'98 conference organisers, Keynote Conferences:

    Keynote Conferences
    PO Box 1126
    West Leederville WA 6901
    Telephone (08) 9382 3799 Fax: (08) 9380 4006

Papers for the face to face conference Papers for presentation at the face to face conference in Perth will be published in the Conference Proceedings Volume 1. This will be available to all conference delegates at the beginning of the conference, and for sale after the conference to libraries and others. Volume 1 will be web available also.

Please note the following instructions for formatting and submitting papers:

  • Maximum length - 4000 words. Shorter papers are acceptable. File size should not exceed 500 kB.
  • Please include a 200 word abstract, ie shortened from your initial submission.
  • They must be submitted as MS Word 6 for Windows or MS Word 5 or 6 for Macintosh.
  • Graphics, figures and charts must be included in your word processor file and be visible under Word 6. Encapsulated Postscript is not acceptable. Please note that the final page size will be B5 as in previous volumes of EdTech Proceedings, and plan your graphics accordingly.
  • Use 'normal' style throughout. Do not use any other style.
  • Use single line space throughout, and double spacing between paragraphs.
  • Limit levels of heading to no more than three.
  • Include names, institutional and email addresses of all authors.
  • Use APA Guidelines as your style guide for citation of references.
  • Please undertake your own spell checking, grammar checking, proofreading, eliminating of sexist or other discriminatory expressions, reference checking, etc, because under our tight deadlines for production, the Proceedings editors cannot guarantee to protect you.

Papers must be submitted as a single file email attachment, addressed to:

edtech98-papers@cleo.murdoch.edu.au
Put "EdTech98 paper" and the full name of first author in the subject field, and ensure that your contact details and organisation identity details appear in full in your signature. Please use first author's surname or family name as the filename for the attached file.

Hard copy for an email submission should also be posted to the conference organisers as backup. If you cannot submit by email, you may submit a 3.5 inch floppy disk, with hard copy backup, to the conference organisers, Keynote Conferences (see address above).

Papers for the virtual conference Please note the following instructions for formatting and submitting papers:

  • You may submit in one of two formats:

    1. as MS Word files, in accordance with the instructions given above for the face to face conference, except that floppy disk submission is not available.

    2. as html, in accordance with all relevant instructions given above, and with the further instructions and options given below.

  • If in html, the submission must be by email to the same address as for non-html submissions:
    edtech98-papers@cleo.murdoch.edu.au
    using one of the following options:

    1. an email attachment comprising a single binary file in zip fomat or Mac StuffIt format (plain text will suffice if you have only one html file and no image files); or

    2. notify a single URL from which all required files may be copied, and give all filenames in your email message.

    Put "EdTech98 paper" and the full name of first author in the subject field, and ensure that your contact details and organisation identity details appear in full in your signature. Please use first author's surname or family name as the filename for the attached file.

  • Please observe these specifications for your html authoring:
    1. Do not require the reader's workstation to have capabilities exceeding Netscape 2 and Internet Explorer 3 capabilities.

    2. No frames. Do not require calls to cgi scripts.

    3. Article size (total of html and image files) not to exceed 500 kB.

    4. Place all of the files comprising your article in a single directory without using subdirectories. Use filenames with form nnnnnnnx.html, nnnnnnnx.gif and nnnnnnnx.jpg where nnnnnnn is first author's name and x = 1,2,3... Use only relative addressing for links within your set of files.

    5. You may link appendices and supporting material from your own web site without format or size restrictions, but the main body of your article must be submitted for publication on EdTech's web site under http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/aset/

    6. Please ensure that references cited as links to sites elsewhere are valid at the time of submitting your article. Include "Accessed (date)" in such citations. Please make any such links only in your article's list of references and refrain from using direct external links in your article's text. You may hotlink reference citations to your article's list of references if you wish.

    7. The Volume 2 editor will insert standard Volume 2 metatags, headers, footers and navigation links into each article.

    8. A hypertext link to a contact person's address will appear at the end of each article and normally that will be to the first author's email address.

Publication
conditions

 The work which you submit must be previously unpublished. Please note also that:
  1. Acceptance for publication in EdTech'98 Proceedings is subject to the receipt of Conference registration, as detailed in Call for papers.

  2. All accepted papers will be print and web published as specified in Call for papers. In the case of accepted abstracts for Volume 1 (face to face conference) for which a full paper is not submitted, the abstract will be published.

  3. Authors retain copyright in their individual articles and assign to ASET a non-exclusive right to publish royalty free in print and free to the Internet via web pages. Copyright in the compilation of Volume 1 (print and web) and Volume 2 (web) belongs to ASET, and in the case of web files, jointly with ASET's web site provider, Teaching and Learning Centre, Murdoch University, as specified in the web files.

  4. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submissions are free from intellectual property rights violations.
Thank you .... we look forward to your participation!

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