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Common Ground has an exciting conference season from Spring to Summer 2012, with a total of twelve conferences coming up:

Spring:

Health, Wellness, and Society, Chicago, IL, USA: March 10-11

Vancouver

Summer:

 Diversity, Vancouver, Canada: June 11-13

Global Studies, Moscow, Russia: June 20-22

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Barcelona, Spain: June 25-28

Book, Barcelona, Spain: June 30-July 1

On the Organization: Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management, Chicago, IL, USA: July 6-8

Climate Change, Seattle, WA, USA: July 12-13

The Arts in Society, Liverpool, UK: July 23-25

Sport and Society, Cambridge, UK: July 23-25

Cave Hill, Barbados

Inclusive Museum, Cave Hill, Barbados, West Indies: August 2-5

Learning, London, UK: August 14-16

CG is proud of its innovations in the scholarly conference format, offering intellectually and discursively open spaces.

We’re grateful to our returning scholars who have supported our conferences since they began, from Learning in its nineteenth year to Book in its tenth and Climate Change in its fourth. We are glad to welcome new generations of scholars, as well. They keep our knowledge communities vibrant and growing.

We hope you will be able to join us in the coming year in person or online, as we look forward to launching our new knowledge community websites and an interactive Community application to keep the conversations going.

Mumbai, the Gateway to India

Our Director of Software, Andrew Shirk, and Senior Developer, John Martirano, traveled separately at the beginning of 2012 to Common Ground Publishing-Mumbai to consult about software innovations to the publishing process that are underway and for which the Mumbai office, led by Paresh Shah, is essential as a repository of institutional practice. The Mumbai office has long played a key role in the processing of Common Ground Publishing manuscripts, and has now also taken on quality assurance testing for software in development.

While in India, Andrew Shirk also visited a software development firm working with CGP to build the Scholar environment, Mahaswami of Bangalore. Mahaswami has developed multimedia capabilities for Scholar, and is currently working on Scholar’s social media application for knowledge community sharing and informal learning, which we call Community.

Common Ground Publishing now offers professional editing services for authors. These services can help you at the point of initial submission or during the revision stage, before the final submission of your paper.

Our copyeditors will correct spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors; revise for clarity, readability, logic, awkward word choice, and phrasing; check for typos and formatting inconsistencies; and confirm proper use of an author-identified referencing style.

To inquire about professional editing services, email your request–with a copy of your paper–to the relevant Common Ground Publishing journal.  Please also include your abstract and author bio-note as well as a note about the citation style used in the paper (MLA, APA, etc.).

Upon receiving your inquiry:

1. The Commissioning Editor of the Journal will review your paper and provide you with a written price quote.
2. Once you accept the price quote in writing, the Commissioning Editor will assign a copyeditor to your paper.
3. Within 7-14 business days of your confirmed payment, you will receive a copy of your edited paper via email.

For more information on Common Ground Publishing’s professional editing services, please follow the Journal website’s “Publish Your Paper” link, and then select “Editing Services.”

judging panel

CG Spain’s Commissioning Editor, Ernesto Baltar, has been awarded Benicassim‘s International Prize of Literature for 2011.  41 authors competed from across the globe, including the US, India, Colombia, and France.  The prize is awarded for “travel literature not only geographical character stories in specific time and space, but also the experiences of all kinds – inner travels – a writer or writer can be related to their emotional, emotional or intellectual vicissitudes.”

This November and December, Common Ground Publishing will host four conferences for vibrant knowledge communities that we curate.  Each knowledge community shares an interdisciplinary focus that is expressed through dynamic, interactive conferences; peer-reviewed journals, and a related book series.  Please follow the conference links below to find out more.

November

Aging and Society, Nov 8-9, Clark Kerr campus at UC Berkeley

Ubiquitous Learning, Nov. 11-12, Clark Kerr campus at UC Berkeley

On Wednesday  November 2, 2011 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Education Rm. 10) Dr. William Cope will present at the “Transformations: Research and Teaching in the Digital Age” seminar series, sponsored by the University of Illinois Department of Educational Psychology, & Ubiquitous Learning Institute.  Dr. Cope’s presentation is titled “Integrating Assessment Into Learning: The “Scholar” Environment in Principle and Practice.” In Dr. Cope’s words:

We can use new technologies to do conventional, old things—as we do when we transfer Gutenberg’s typographic schemas onto desktops or the heritage logic of classrooms into learning management systems. This presentation explores seven ‘affordances’—things we could do differently with new media technologies, even though much of the time we do not. The things I am going to highlight are by no means written into new media technologies. In fact, these are all things that, with effort, we could have done with printed texts and in traditional classrooms, and sometimes did. The change of greatest significance is the economy of effort.  The presentation will explore the practicalities of integrating assessment into learning in several projects I am working on for the US Department of Education. For these projects, we have been building an online writing, learning and assessment environment, and trialing it in schools. I will show this. I will also discuss a theory of new learning and new literacies, focusing on some of the affordances of the digital media: collaboration, differentiation, metacognition, ubiquity, multimodality, agency and evaluation.

Karim Gherab-Martin

A number of Common Ground Publishing’s key international partners and staff have come together in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois this week to discuss vital connections between conferencing, publishing, learning, and transformative media in the US and abroad.  Visiting international staff include Karthek Krishnan of the software development consulting firm Mahaswami, Bangalore, India; Karim Gherab-Martin, Director of Common Ground Publishing-Spain, Portugal, and Latin America (Madrid, Spain); and Paresh Shah, Director of Common Ground Publishing-South Asia (Mumbai, India).

The week will culminate in education research partners Eugenia Arvanitis of the Greek Ministry of Education and Chryssi Vitsilaki, Vice Rector, University of the Aegean, Greece discussing the success of their Spring 2011 trialing of Common Ground Publishing’s Learning by Design web-planning and curriculum delivery environment, held in three clusters of schools in Greece (located in Patra, Thessaloniki, and Rhodes).  Drs. Arvanitis and Vitsilaki will present at the University of Illinois College of Education with Dean Mary Kalantzis, who, with Common Ground Publishing president Bill Cope, has led the project.  The foundational work for this project was funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education, and the Greek trials by the Pedagogical Institute of Greece and the Ministry of Education, Greece.  (Friday, October 21, 2011; 1:30-2:30 p.m.; Room 166 Education Building)

Common Ground Publishing is committed to supporting knowledge communities the world over.