Call for Submissions

The Conference theme for 2005 is “best of practice”

In keeping with the theme of best of practice we encourage submissions in the following areas:

• Computing Education
• Computing Practice
• Computing Research

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Original submissions are invited for full papers, concise papers, posters, workshops and software demonstrations. Papers are to be submitted to the website http://site.tekotago.ac.nz/naccq

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Full papers:
The paper should be original work, a maximum of 4000 words and no more than eight formatted pages (all inclusive). Please use the formatting “Instructions to authors” as a guide. http://www.naccq.ac.nz/conference05.html?page=18

Full papers are double blind refereed on submission by a review panel and accepted/modified/rejected. The editorial panel reviews final versions of the paper. Papers may be rejected at that point.

Concise papers :

Concise papers are a maximum of 2000 words, and no more than four formatted pages (all inclusive). Papers are selected by blind review on submitted proposal and editorially reviewed on completion. Papers may be rejected at that point.

Guidelines for proposal for concise papers: (250 word total).

Paper Introduction:
Clearly state the question being addressed, the background to it, and its relevance to the conference audience.

Paper methodology:
If it is a research paper then provide information about how the research was conducted. If it is a discussion paper then briefly note what others have written about the issue and/or provide the context of the work.

Paper results:
Provide an indication of the findings of the research (if appropriate/available).

Paper conclusion:
State the main conclusions from the findings (may be preliminary) and indicate that implications will be explored for computer education, computing practice and/or research.

Poster and demonstration papers
Proposals follow the same guidelines as concise papers but are limited to one page total. Guidelines for the posters themselves are on the NACCQ website.

Workshops
Workshops are intended to enhance the skills and broaden the perspective of their attendees. They should be designed to introduce a new area or to provide advanced technical training in an area. Submissions will be selected on suitability of the Workshop to the intended delegates of this conference and on the basis of the facilitator’s qualifications for teaching the proposed Workshop. Workshops are either full day (6 hours) or half day (3 hours).

Workshop proposals must include:

• Clear description of the objectives
• Intended audience (experience level and prerequisites)
• Proposed length (3 hours or 6 hours)
• 1-page outline of the content
• Summary of the facilitator's qualifications

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Please note:
There is no guarantee that papers received after Friday 13 th May will be published. For authors to have their papers or poster outline published in the Conference Proceedings, at least one of the authors of the paper must be registered to attend the conference by 20 th June 2005 .

Barbara Chamberlain, Conference Chair
on behalf of the Conference Committee