EUROLOGO 2001- A Turtle Odyssey

8^th European Logo Conference

Linz / Austria, 21-25 August 2001

www.eurologo.org/eurologo2001

Second Announcement and Call for Papers

Conference Chairs

Evgenia Sendova (Bulgaria) and Erich Neuwirth (Austria)

Scope of the conference

EUROLOGO is a biannual scientific international conference that addresses all scientists, developers and educators that develop, use or study all kinds of Logo or Logo-based software. Furthermore also investigations of other exploratory computational environments, classroom applications of Logo philosophy and other innovative educational research and practices that are in touch with the Logo approach are covered.

EUROLOGO 2001 will be held in Linz, Austria from 21-25 August 2001. The conference will carry on the work of the previous ones in Dublin (1987), Gent (1989), Parma (1991), Anavissos (1993), Birmingham (1995), Budapest (1997) and Sofia (1999).

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

Learning with Logo: Cognitive, cultural and cross-cultural aspects

Learning by exploring, communication and collaboration

Methodology and curriculum design

Classroom practices

Pedagogical and psychological issues

Teacher education

Children with special needs

Software environments and tools

Mental models of computation

Robotics with Logo: connecting mind and physical reality

Implementing Logo philosophy with other software

Logo in the Information Society

Logo and global communication

Challenges of the Internet

Conference Outline (Draft)

Important deadlines

21 April 2001                        Submission of full papers, posters and demonstrations (NEW Deadline)

31 May 2001                        Notification of acceptance

15 June 2001                        Early birds

15 July 2001                        Final Program

Conference language

English

Guidelines for Submissions

The detailed submission guidelines for papers, posters and demonstrations can be downloaded from www.eurologo.org/eurologo2001/Instructions2001.rtf

Papers and posters are to be submitted in camera-ready form for publication in the Conference Proceedings to be distributed on site.

The electronic paper/poster version is to be sent to

submissions01.eurologo@sunsite.univie.ac.at

The printed version is to be sent to the chair of the program committee

Gerald Futschek

TU-Wien

"Eurologo 2001 Submission"

Favoritenstrasse 9/188

A1040 Vienna

Austria

Scientific Papers will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers of the Eurologo Program Committee.

Tutorials

On Tuesday August 21, 2001 there will be held several half-day tutorials. The tutorial fee is included in the conference fee. There is also a tutorial-only fee for teachers that do not attend the conference (80 Euro). According to the limited number of PCs there will be a limit to the number of participants per tutorial. Registration of tutorials is on a first come first serve basis only after payment of the registration fee.

Planned half-day tutorials

T1 Uri Wilensky: Star Logo - Learning with Thousands of Parallel Turtles

T2 Ken Khan: Toon Talk

T3 Brian Harvey: Advanced Logo beyond the Turtle

T4 Ivan Kalas, Andrej Blaho: Imagine - A Powerful Tool for Creative Learning

            T5 Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo, Zsuzsa Pluhar: Lego-Logo

            T6 Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo, Zsuzsa Pluhar: Developing Educational Microworlds with

     SuperLogo (Comenius Logo)

Keynote Speakers

We have a commitment of the following four keynote speakers

Ken Kahn (US)

Brian Harvey (US)

Paul Nicholson (AUS)

Uri Wilensky (US)

Conference venue

Linz is a small town at the side of the Danube not more than two hours away from Vienna. As one of the main cities of Austria, Linz is a center of education, industry and commerce. Tradition and New Technologies meet in Linz (www.anto.com/linz.html).

The conference will take place at the campus of the "Paedagogische Akademie der Dioezese Linz - Teacher Training College" that is situated at the slope of one of the smaller hills of Linz. The College provides excellent conference facilities and a student house for accommodation at reasonable costs.

Housing information

There are 2 categories of accommodation facilities nearby the conference site available and one very simple and cheap facility is situated directly at the campus.

Registration fees

Regular fee                    320 Euro (ATS 4400)

Reduced fee                  290 Euro (ATS 3990)

Accompanying person  120 Euro (ATS 1650)

Tutorials only                   80 Euro (ATS 1100)

Reduced fee for early registration (until June 15, 2001), teachers, students and OCG members.

The conference fee includes the conference proceedings, the conference participation, coffee, lunches and official social conference events. The fee for accompanying persons includes the meals and participation in all official social events.

The registration fees are payable in such a way that the full fee receives at the conference account.

Account No: 2601839, BLZ 34000

Education Highway, "Eurologo 2001"

Name of Bank: Raiffeisen Landesbank Ooe, Raiffeisenplatz 1, 4020 Linz, AUSTRIA

Credit Cards: VISA, Mastercard with name of owner, card no, valid thru, signature

Social Events

Conference dinner, excursion, conference reception

International Scientific Committee

M. Alberti (Italy), A. Anov (Denmark), J. M. Arias (Spain), A. Atanasiu (Romania), V. Batagelj (Slovenia), J. S. Close (Ireland), S. Correia (Portugal), V. Dagiene (Lithuania), D. Dicheva (Bulgaria), J. Enkenberg (Finland), K. Farkas (Hungary), G. Futschek (Austria), M. L. Giovannini (Italy), M. Grobelnik (Slovenia), J. Gurtner (Switzerland), K. R. Johnson (UK), I. Kalas (Slovakia), V. Kaptelinin (Russia), C. Krantz (Luxembourg), C. Kynigos (Greece), H. Loethe (Germany), V. Midoro (Italy), E. Neuwirth (Austria), R. Noss (UK), M. Doyle (UK), Consolato Pellegrino (Italy), H. Pinxteren (Netherlands), A. Plebe (Italy), G. Reuteler (Liechtenstein), H. Schauer (Switzerland), G. Schuyten (Belgium), E. Sendova (Bulgaria), Y. S. Give'on (Israel), J. Sklenar (Malta), S. Soprunov (Russia), J. Suomala (Finland), S. Triantafillou (Greece), M. Turcsanyi-Szabo (Hungary), A. Walat (Poland), U. Wittrup (Sweden)

Program Committee

Chairs: Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo (Hungary) and Gerald Futschek (Austria)

Vladimir Batagelj (Slovenia), Secundino Correia (Portugal), Darina Dicheva (USA), Ivan Kalas (Slovak Rep.), Chronis Kynigos (Greece), Herbert Loethe (Germany), Erich Neuwirth (Austria), Iliana Nikolova (Bulgaria), Richard Noss (UK), Sergei Soprunov (Russia), Andrzej Walat (Poland)

Organizing Organizations

Paedagogische Akademie der Dioezese Linz, IST

OCG – Austrian Computer Society

in cooperation with

Institute of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology

Working Group Computer Supported Didactics, University of Vienna

Conference Address

Paedagogische Akademie der Dioezese Linz

Salesianumweg 3

A-4020 Linz

AUSTRIA

Contact address and persons

eurologo2001@sunsite.univie.ac.at

(Gerald Futschek, Anton Knierzinger and Erich Neuwirth)

Local Arrangements Registration and Accommodation

Elisabeth Degenhart (Education Highway)

dee@eduhi.at

Salesianumweg 3

A-4020 Linz

AUSTRIA

Looking forward to welcoming you at the EUROLOGO 2001!