As digital technologies continue to radically change the social acts of meaning making in which we engage, boundaries once taken for granted between semiotic consumption and production and among various modes and medialities have begun to break down, pushing applied linguists and scholars of language pedagogy to reconsider conceptualizations of literacy in teaching and learning language and cultures. If new literacies afford new forms of meaning making, then they also demand new understandings of the ways in which we acquire…

The 2014 North American Simulation and Gaming Association Conference “Playing Stories, Sharing Worlds: Imagining Games for Learning” will take place at the Baltimore Harbor Hotel. The conference will include workshops, posters, playful sessions and explorations of physical, digital and mixed reality games for learning. New this year, the conference will include a THATCamp Games “unconference” driven by participants with lots of opportunities for collaboration and experimentation. The event will include: - Active play sessions of classic and brand new simulations…

Eszterházy Károly College, the International Council for Educational Media, Open University Malaysia, and Delta University for Science and Technology of Egypt, cordially invite You to attend the Agria Media 2014 Conference and Exhibition on Information and Communication Technology and Instruction Technology, ICI-13 International Conference on Information Technology and 64th International Council for Educational Media ICEM Conference. The conference seeks to provide a forum for academic discussion for professionals working in the fields of instruction technology, ICT instruction, research and development,…