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AARE Association Broadcast E-mails 2006

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ABOUT THESE MESSAGES 2006

  1. Addresses
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  2. Purpose
    These broadcast messages are primarily intended to briefly inform AARE members about Association events and achievements which are more fully documented on AARE website.
  3. Security
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  4. Frequency
    It is intended to issue messages at approximately fortnightly intervals, but at peak periods of Association activity they may become more frequent if requested by AARE Executive Members.
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  6. Replying
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The Broadcast Messages start below. (The messages are sorted with the latest first. Note we use the day/month/year date format.)
Broadcast E-mail 6/12/2006
Dear members of AARE
AARE is working in collaboration with researchers in the SORTI Centre at the University of Newcastle on a .journal banding. project. We believe the outcomes of the project will assist educational researchers in preparing submissions in the context of the assessment of research quality and professional impact as part of the Research Quality Framework (RQF). Given the international nature of education publishing, the project is also likely to have a wider significance. The invitation to participate in the questionnaire component of the project will be extended not only to AARE members but also to other relevant national and international professional and research organizations related to education.
What we would like you to do is to visit the project website and complete an anonymous on-line questionnaire indicating what you consider to be the best education journals in terms of quality and professional impact. A minimum amount of personal and professional information will also be collected from respondents. No information which identifies individual questionnaire respondents in any way will be accessible to the researchers.
More information about the project and the questionnaire is available on
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/forms/bandingsurvey
Responding to the survey will not only benefit educational researchers in general but will provide banding for specific areas of educational research.
The banding profiles that are established will be reviewed within two years as part of a larger project being undertaken by SORTI.
Thank you in anticipation of your participation in the project.
Yours sincerely
Jan Wright
President, AARE
Broadcast E-mail 15/11/2006
PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT USE "REPLY TO" TO THESE BROADCAST EMAILS AS ALL ARE DELETED UNREAD. PLEASE START A NEW MESSAGE WITH A NEW SUBJECT HEADER.
RQF News
The government has finally given the green light for the Research Quality Framework. The minister's announcement can be found at http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Bishop/2006/11/B002141106.asp
A copy of 'The Recommended RQF' (32 pages) can be downloaded from the same site.
The document does not contain many surprises, but there is one major change affecting educational research. In earlier versions of the plans, educational research was to have been assessed alongside a broad range of social sciences. It is now proposed that educational research will be assessed in a 'professionally-oriented' panel that will also cover law, social work, journalism, library and curatorial studies.
The early part of 2007 will see further refinement of the approach to be taken. Submissions will be due in April 2008 and will cover research produced in the period 1/1/01 to 31/12/06.
There will be a number of sessions on the RQF at the Adelaide conference in two weeks from now.
Peter Goodyear
AARE Executive Member
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast E-mail 10/11/2006
DIETS
We have only 24 special diets notified for a conference of over 700 people. Seems a bit low! Please let us know by a short email with the SUBJECT -- DIET if you have special medical or religious needs to be catered for. This is the final call for this information for the caterers.
PROGRAM PRINTING
The 2006 Conference Program is being printed and bound.
NO WITHDRAWALS NOW, MEDICAL CERTIFICATES IF THAT APPLIES.
All registrants will be presented with a list of LATE WITHDRAWALS on Sunday 26th and Monday 27th November as they collect their satchel containing the printed program. A sheet of such late changes will be issued every day so that some 700 - 800 people can cross out the names of late withdrawals in the printed program. We will note medical withdrawals separately.
NO SHOWS will be recorded by Room Custodians and listed for AARE Executive.
Name tags are being prepared now from the accounting package. No pay, no bag, no tag, no entry!
COUNTDOWN
15 days [376 hours] till conference commences.

AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast E-mail 4/11/2006
NEW BALLOT SYSTEM START UP WOES
Sorry for the problems we are having with the new system. We are all learning.
Congratulations to the 70 or so people who have successfully voted. You are very smart! This is also the highest return rate in an AARE Executive Ballot for years.
The system sends out a message for each part of the ballot. I'll call them part A and part B. ----[Actually ECR Member part and General Members of Executive part.]
Click on an email from v4Vote to open a message about part A or Part B
In the email when you click on the link for ballot [part A or part B] you then need to enter your email address as username.
Then you enter your password by copying and pasting [to avoid getting zeros and capital O mixed in the gobbledegook] or other typing errors.
Then login.
Then you click on your email address showing in large print on the green stripe on the screen so that the machine can send you a verification number.
That's all for now. Go back to your email to find the email with the verification number.
The machine will have sent you another bit of different gobbledegook as your verification code.
You now go back into the ballot again and enter the new verification code. [Again you can paste that].
Don't forget to also tick the little box that says you assert that you "haven't voted in this election before".
Then click "Next".
The machine takes you to the ballot page to make your choices.
Look at the candidates' names. [click on the fine line under their name with a + sign to see their details] Tick the box in front of 4 of the names , [or one name for the ECR part]. Then click on "Cast Vote"
The machine and AARE thanks you!
Do all of that again for the other part of the ballot either A or B depending on what you started on.
Note that the password/number AND the verification key emailed to you after step 4 will be different for each part of the ballot A and B.
Peter Jeffery hopefully assisting
Debra Cunningham
Hon. Secretary.
Broadcast E-mail 2/11/2006
BALLOT FOR EXECUTIVE 2007 COMMENCES
Tomorrow morning at 0900 AEST [Brisbane time] the electronic ballot computer will issue logins and passwords to all financial members so that they may vote in this election. The message will be sent from aareballot@v4vote.com so if you see that sender address you should look at it and follow the directions.
Note that the list of eligible voters is not the same as this broadcast list which among other names contains the names of proposers of papers for the forthcoming Adelaide conference. If those people have not paid a membership then they will not be eligible voters and will not receive the message from v4vote. The eligible voters [financial members] list was 'cut-off' at 30th September.
For full details of the new system see AARE NEWS #56, p3. All financial members will have by now received a printed copy of that AARE NEWS and that issue is on-line on at AARE website too.
Debra Cunningham
AARE Honorary Secretary and Returning Officer
Debra.Cunningham@qct.edu.au
Broadcast E-mail 31/10/2006
PROGRAM FINISHED, CLOSING THE DOORS
Some people have not yet registered for the Adelaide conference. It is only 3 weeks away so the time to do it is NOW! Failure to register leads to NO SHOW listing in AARE records.
ACCOMMODATION SQUEEZE
The Ashes are on competing with our intellectual endeavours. Make sure you have a bed in Adelaide. Good luck with the hunt!
HUGE EVENT
The conference is impressive [see program]. Don't miss out on a very enriching event.
AARE OFFICE
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast E-mail 27/10/2006
PROGRAM CHANGES FINISHED
AARE Conference 2006 Program is on the web site. The iteration period is concluded today at 5.00pm AEST. Work has commenced on the Program Book and it will go to the printer on Monday.
AER PUBLISHED
The August 2006 edition Vol 33 No. 2 of The Australian Educational Researcher [AER] is published and available on AARE web site.
BALLOT STARTS MONDAY
AARE Executive Committee ballot will commence Monday by electronic polling. All members will be sent a polling broadcast email on Monday to commence the poll.
DIETS INFORMATION REQUESTED
Medical or religious diets requirements from registrants for the forthcoming AARE 2006 Conference are needed now to inform the caterers. Please send a new message with the subject DIET 2006 to aare@aare.edu.au We pass the message you write directly to the caterers so please make it short, clear and unequivocal. Remember, all replies to broadcast messages are deleted unread. So, don't do "reply to" -- start a NEW MESSAGE.
AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast E-mail 26/10/2006
VERSION 2 PROGRAM SETTLED
After and enormous struggle to juggle 800 presentations, symposia and other presentations and after feedback from delegates over the past three days, we are pleased to announce the Program is nearly settled. Work has commenced on preparing the book for printing based on the version [2] now available on the website.
Many people have apparently scheduled flights out of South Australia on Thursday afternoon despite the warning that this is a four day conference. We regret any inconvenience but cannot put all presentations into Monday to Wednesday so that people can leave from lunch time Thursday.
Any further program adjustments will create consequential problems for other presenters and destroy the content sequencing we have achieved in the program. Such a situation would undermine the quality and integrity of the event. We will now start placing book launches and other special meetings. SIGs meetings have already been posted.
AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au<
Broadcast E-mail 24/10/2006
DRAFT 2006 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The draft program is on the AARE website at http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2006/program.xls for the next 5 days to allow all presenters to check their placings. Thanks for your patience. Please email aare@aare.edu.au if you spot something that could be improved. Search the large spreadsheet by using FIND putting in your papercode [unequivocal reference] or your name. The days are colour coded to assist you. Check for clashes and remember that these placings are not final till Monday 30th October when you can check again to see if we had to move your presentation in the draft to fix an error elsewhere in the program. We don't want to move anything but realise that we may have to.
It takes a huge effort to place 800 papers in a sensible sequence and this process has been aided this year by contributions from SIGs and the Convenor but considerably also by asking that all presenters register for four days. You will observe that there are papers on Thursday afternoon filling up all 4 days of the conference.
After the exposure of this draft until Saturday 28th October, 5.00pm, the Program Book will be finalised for the printer. While you are checking our best efforts to accommodate a huge range of "wishes" we will be preparing all the other details that go into the Program Book including the author, title and paper code index.
AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Broadcast Message 20/10/2006
AARE NEWS PUBLISHED & MAILED
  • AARE NEWS #56 has been printed and posted to all members today.
  • It is also on the AARE website. Go to it via AARE NEWS on the home page.
ELECTRONIC EXECUTIVE BALLOT
On page 3 of AARE NEWS #56 there is a detailed explanation of the Association's move to using electronic balloting.
Critical dates are:
  • ALL EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGES MUST BE SENT IN BY 27TH OCTOBER to AARE Office aare@aare.edu.au
  • ANY APPLICATIONS FOR A POSTAL (PAPER) BALLOT MUST BE SENT IN BY 27TH OCTOBER to AARE office (PO Box 71 Coldstream Vic 3770) .
  • THE BALLOT OPENS ON THE 30TH OCTOBER [sorry we are one week later than stated in the NEWS].
  • THE BALLOT CLOSES ON 17TH NOVEMBER.
Full instructions and explanations are in the NEWS [p 3] and on the website location where you will vote.
All members will be sent a broadcast email giving instructions at the commencement of the ballot [30th October].
Debra Cunningham
Hon. Secretary and Returning Officer
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Broadcast Message 17/10/2006
PROGRAM FOR 2006 CONF.
  • This will be published on AARE website early next week for presenters to check their position in the Program.
  • After 5 days the Program will be closed and sent to the printer.
  • Please wait.
  • Another message will be sent when the draft Program is on the website.
AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Messasge 5/10/2006
Please do not reply to this message as ALL replies are deleted un- read. Start a new message if you have a question. Please read the website first!
ABSTRACTS BOOK
This is indexed and and prepared for the printer. No withdrawals without medical certificate or similar.
PROGRAMME
This is being prepared and will be published on the AARE website on 20th October. You will have 7 days to check for clashes of events and notify AARE Office then the book will go to the printer.
AARE NEWS # 56
Is now at the printer and will be published on-line and in print one week from now.
AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Five thousand full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 25/9/2006
ALL ADELAIDE ABSTRACTS PUBLISHED
  • All abstracts are now on the website.
  • Please check your abstracts.
  • The book version goes to the printer at the end of this week.
  • No withdrawals possible after Friday 29/09/06.

AARE OFFICE
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au

Broadcast 15/09/06 --- DO NOT REPLY. START A NEW MESSAGE.
AARE 2006 Conference Abstracts:
Abstracts approved by the Planning Committee are being published progressively on the web site. There are many abstracts for this conference, and they take a while to process. Processing is generally in alphabetical order. We are up to web publishing today, author family names beginning with "M". More abstracts will be published progressively during early next week. Please read the abstracts. Always quote the papercode of any work you wish us to look up.
We are preparing the Abstract Book [400pp A4 perfect bound]. We publish the abstracts on the website now so that members can check the entries for their own and other people's work. Please notify AARE Office in an email with the subject PLEASE CHANGE ABSTRACT if you find a SMALL mistake in your work. The book goes to the printer on 2nd October 2006 without fail.
Refereeing Progress:
We have about 20 papers still waiting on a second or third referee to report. ALL REFEREES ARE HEARBY BEGGED TO GET THE REPORTS SENT IN.
Programming:
We have started on programming the 800 papers over 4 days. It will assist if people intending to pull out and not attend to present the work they proposed PLEASE NOTIFY WITHDRAWAL as soon as possible. The detailed Program will be published on the website on 16th October. The program Book goes to the printer without fail on 2nd November 2006.
Time-table published:
The OUTLINE TIME-TABLE for the conference is available on AARE website. Some minor details and changes will be made before the Program Book goes to the printer on 2nd November.
WITHDRAWAL DATE: ----- 1st OCTOBER
Withdrawals will not be accepted by email or phone after 1st October 2006. LATE WITHDRAWALS after 1st October 2006 will be treated as NO SHOWS unless the withdrawal is for medical reasons.
AARE NEWS CLOSING:
The final issue of AARE NEWS for 2006 will be sent to the printer on 2nd October. It will be mailed and posted to the website one week later on 9th October.
Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 09/09/2006
AARE 2006 Conference Abstracts:
Abstracts approved by the Planning Committee are being published progressively on the web site. There are many abstracts for this conference, and they take a while to process. Processing is generally in alphabetical order. We are up to web publishing today, author family names beginning with "C". More abstracts will be published next week.
In the past members had to wait till November to see the abstracts in the Abstract Book in the conference satchel. Now you get a preview of the conference content. Please read the abstracts. As the abstracts listing is incomplete links within the document may not work yet. Use the preview time to start planning your personal program for conference.
We are preparing the Abstract Book [400pp A4 perfect bound]. We publish the abstracts on the website now so that members can check the entries for their own and other people's work. AARE office does not re-type abstracts, authors names, institutions or other details - the abstracts are copied and pasted from the proposal forms submitted by the authors. What you see is what you wrote. Please notify AARE Office in an email with the subject PLEASE CHANGE ABSTRACT if you find a SMALL mistake in your work. It is too late for general changes. Only small grammatical or spelling mistakes can be changed. After all the abstracts are published on the website the versions on the website will be published in the book. The book goes to the printer on 2nd October 2006 without fail.
Refereeing Progress:
We have 25% of the papers submitted for full paper refereeing waiting on one or more referee reports. That is about 50 papers are still waiting on a second or third referee to report. If you know a referee please give them a hint to hurry up!
Programming:
We have started on programming the 800 papers over 4 days. It will assist if people intending to pull out and not attend to present the work they proposed PLEASE NOTIFY WITHDRAWAL as soon as possible. It is difficult to make a content cohesive program and it will be easier if we are notified early if you have failed to get funding or have some other reason to withdraw. The Program will be posted on the website as soon as possible for checking clashes. The program Book goes to the printer without fail on 2nd November 2006.
AARE OFFICE
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 25/8/2006
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT RATE CLOSES NEXT THURSDAY
Please note that the on-line payment system will change the prices on Thursday next [31st August] at midnight AEST to remove the discount operating for those who pay registration early.
PEOPLE WITH PAPERS IN FOR REFEREEING
AARE Office, with the cooperation of multitudinous academics, has completed 50% of the papers submitted for full paper refereeing. "Papers completed authors" have been notified. 130 papers still need to be finished [are still with referees]. If they are not all done by 31st August 2006 midnight, individual extensions to the discount rate will be offered to those people with outstanding refereeing. We will not pressure referees. Extended discount rates will only be available from AARE Office as the on-line rate will change upwards.
URGENTLY NEED MORE REFEREES NEXT WEEK
Please volunteer to help complete the refereeing by EB date. Contact AARE Office aare@aare.edu.au

Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 16/08/2006
AARE is a founder member of the Australian Digital Alliance [ADA].
ADA members include schools, universities, consumer groups, major cultural institutions, IT companies, scientific and other research organisations, libraries and individuals. They are united by the common theme that intellectual property laws must strike a balance between providing appropriate incentives for creativity against reasonable and equitable access to knowledge.
ADA is seeking examples of how "technological protection measures" affect the education sector in order to lobby for appropriate copyright laws for the sector. The legislation is being drafted now so now is the time for action.
TPMs or Technological Protection Measures are digital devices or technologies that protect copyright. Examples include password protection, access codes or pin numbers, self-destruct mechanisms on digital files, and other types of digital technologies that lock out access to digital formats containing material, in order to protect the copyright in that material.
Pursuant the free trade agreement with the US, Australia is required to implement more stringent laws ("anti-circumvention laws") against the circumvention of such TPMs, including criminal and civil penalties.
The ADA is concerned that implementation of these provisions will adversely affect educational and research institutions.
We would be interested in any examples you have come across of:
PMs in your work environment (examples of what sort & in what circumstances would be useful)
  • Examples of how TPMs have impeded your activities or functions;
  • Examples of where license terms or conditions in relation to TPMs have impeded your functions or activities.
If you are willing to provide examples from your institution of TPMs impacting your teaching and research activities, write to pjeff@aare.edu.au with the heading on your email - TPMs. Indicate if you wish your response to remain private to AARE, otherwise they will be relayed to ADA. ADA will keep them confidential to itself and only aggregated data will be used unless specific permission in writing is granted to allow onwards transmission of particular examples.

Peter Jeffery
AARE nominee to ADA.
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 06/08/2006
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AVAILABLE WORLD WIDE
The speeches of Fazal Rizvi, Pat Thompson, Maggie MacLure and Jane Kenway's Symposium will be available via webex to anyone in the world free. This is in addition to being able to be heard and seen in the auditorium at the conference in Adelaide in November.
If you are unable to come to Adelaide to meet these people and hear and see them in person, you can register for a webex invitation by sending an email to pjeff@aare.edu.au Peter needs only your email to register you for the transmission of sound and vision. You will be given a free 1800 number and a link for the web to use at the time of the session.
WebEx sessions times are in Australian Eastern Summer Time [Sydney time] and you will have to allow for your local time zone. You will see the speaker and her/his slides via your computer [or if a group is receiving, via a projected computer image] and you will hear the speeches via the telephone. The meeting time [webex] will give the time at which you need to connect in AEST.
The bionotes of the keynote speakers are given on AARE website in the conference overview. The titles and abstracts of the presentations will be posted when the Abstracts for all presentations to be made at the conference are added to the website. These are being prepared now for the Abstract Book and the website. The full Program will be posted much later on the website.
If someone in an institution would like to offer a room linked by webex to the conference, all the faculty or students not travelling to Adelaide can see and hear these presentations. Contact pjeff@aare.edu.au for simple instructions on how to do it.
WebEx is easy. For more information go to www.webex.com.au or contact pjeff@aare.edu.au
Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 04/08/2006
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AVAILABLE WORLD WIDE
The speeches of Fazal Rizvi, Pat Thompson, Maggie MacLure and Jane Kenway's Symposium will be available via webex to anyone in the world free. This is in addition to being able to be heard and seen in the auditorium at the conference in Adelaide in November.
If you are unable to come to Adelaide to meet these people and hear and see them in person, you can register for a webex invitation by sending an email to pjeff@aare.edu.au Peter needs only your email to register you for the transmission of sound and vision. You will be given a free 1800 number and a link for the web to use at the time of the session.
Sessions times are in Australian Eastern Summer Time [Sydney time] and you will have to allow for your local time zone. You will see the speaker and her/his slides via your computer [or if a group is receiving, via a projected computer image] and you will hear the speeches via the telephone.
The bionotes of the keynote speakers are given on AARE website in the conference overview. The titles and abstracts of the presentations will be posted when the Abstracts for all presentations to be made at the conference are added to the website. These are being prepared now for the Abstract Book and the website. The full Program will be posted much later on the website.
The sessions available via webex are on each morning Monday 27 th November to Thursday 30 th November at 8.30am - 10.00am Adelaide time which is 30 minutes behind Sydney time.
If someone in an institution would like to offer a room linked by webex to the conference, all the faculty or students not travelling to Adelaide can see and hear these presentations. Contact pjeff@aare.edu.au for simple instructions on how to do it.
WebEx is easy. For more information go to www.webex.com.au or contact pjeff@aare.edu.au


Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 28/07/2006
AARE NEWS PUBLISHED
The new look AARE NEWS #55 July 2007 is now published on-line and printed copies will be posted to financial members starting today. The printed copies will be accompanied with inserts from advertisers and a 'Guidelines for Presenters' booklet for the Adelaide conference.
In the issue:
Bologna Process and Australia - Michael Singh
AARE Constitution restructure - Ray Debus
Executive to meet regularly in Canberra
How to have a meeting at Adelaide Conference
Membership matters and data on AARE
Focus Conference '07 Canberra
Are you a teaching slave? - Joanne Dwyer
ARERA symposium announcement - Pam Bartholomeus
Call for Life member Award nominations 2006
Mastering tools of the profession to get rid of data hidden in Word
Australian Educational Researcher [journal] report - Annette Patterson
RARE #6 comments
AARE - AER - Ingenta - Peter Jeffery
AARE website conference papers summary data
AARE 2006 Conference Program and Abstracts
Call for nominations for 2007 Executive - Debra Cunningham
Some important dates
Adelaide is a four day conference
AARE NEWS publishing dates.


Peter Jeffery
Editor
AARE NEWS
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast message 14/7/2006
VAST ACADEMIC COOPERATIVE VENTURE
On behalf of the academy and the public - many thanks to about 450 members so far who are reading and assessing full papers proposed for presentation at the Adelaide conference. The level of cooperation across Australia and beyond is quite remarkable and the office people making all the arrangements are grateful and overall quite impressed with the professionalism they are encountering. Public and politicians take note!
AARE Office is halfway through the task of organizing the refereeing of 300 papers for the Adelaide Conference. That is, about 150 papers have been brought down from email into the collection to be refereed and sanitized or sent back for re-submission if the authors sent it to us in pdf. Each paper has been read enough to estimate the content so that three appropriate peers can be asked to consider refereeing the work. The referees must not be from the same institution, related to the authors, from the same Australian State as the author etc. When we have three referees who have agreed to do the work they are sent the full paper together with the report form to complete and fax back.
Thus in 2006 we have to find 900 referees willing to assess papers [some do more than one and some special fields rely on experts taking more than one paper to referee, for example we have relatively few to call on for assessment of papers using Rasch Scaling methodology]. After the reports are received we remove identifying names and notify the paper authors by email that their work has passed [2 out of 3 ACCEPT judgements to get a pass] and what authors have to do next. Later we post [mail] copies of the referees reports to the authors so that they can modify their work if they wish.
We aim to do all this before the August 31st early-bird discount rate ceases to be available. In this endeavour we are aided by those referees who assess promptly and return reports with alacrity. The office does all processing in date order of receipt of emailed submissions so papers sent in late may not be done in time to meet the discount rate for registration. Authors of such late submissions should register by the 31st August to avoid additional costs and take a chance on the refereeing result being in their favour. We can't hurry volunteer referees to fix up late submission problems of authors.
Once again thanks from all to all and be prepared - your call will come soon!
ALL RARE POSTED
RARE#6 "Counterpoints on the Quality and Impact of Educational Research" [AARE 2006 pp 189] has been packed and mailed to all financial members of the Association. If you didn't get the lovely blue book with the excellent content you need to check to see whether you have paid your subscription/membership to AARE. Or you can buy the book for $44.00 per copy on-line on AARE website. A special thanks to the one member who wrote to say she had received the book and was looking forward to reading it. Now we know that it has reached at least one person out of the 1000 we sent it to.
RARE FLYER HELP NEEDED
We have a few copies of RARE#6 for sale. The Association will sell these mainly to libraries and individuals overseas. To do that we need to market the book internationally. When you have read the book you will see that it has quality content as well as 'quality' in its title and so we hope some of you will be willing to assist in promoting the book in the same way as many of you helped with promoting AARE future conferences, by distributing a little flyer about RARE#6 when visiting overseas conferences etc.
The RARE flyer is shrink wrapped in little packets of 10 copies. It is professionally designed and printed in colour so it looks as good as the book and its contents. You can be proud of your Association's publishing efforts and confident that if you hand out these flyers you are doing a good professional service to a colleague. The packets weigh only 50gms and so they will not burden you down in your baggage as you travel. If your bag is not full take the book to show - but cling onto it! Flyers are safer. The flyer is also on the website if you want to direct colleagues to it or send it that way.
If you are willing to take a packet or packets of RARE#6 flyers overseas, please email Peter Jeffery, pjeff@aare.edu.au who will send you a packet or two or... This cooperative venture will not only spread the academic expertise of mainly Australian educational researchers, it will also assist in balancing AARE's budget!
REVIEW COPIES SEEK ADDRESSEES
AARE can send some copies of RARE#6 to genuine reviewers for journals. We need complete names and physical addresses of potential reviewers of the book and we will write to people you suggest to obtain some sort of undertaking or interest in reviewing "Counterpoints..." before we send a copy. If you know someone who is a reviews editor or a reviewing person working in the relevant field, please send to Peter Jeffery pjeff@aare.edu.au their full name and address, name of journal and their email so that we may contact them.
AARE NEWS #55 IN PRESS
The next thing financial members will receive in the mail will be the latest AARE NEWS. The NEWS is also published on the AARE website.
ACCOMMODATION REMINDER
If you intend going to the Adelaide conference remember the Ashes is on at the same time and accommodation will be scarce. Early bookings [see chart on AARE website] are advised. Mention AARE when you book to get the special discount price. These rates expire [see chart] so again early booking is advised. AARE Secretariat and all keynote speakers are booked! Take the hint.
Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
pjeff@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 13/6/2006
SEARCH FACILITY ENHANCED:
AARE's website's search functionality has been enhanced by the inclusion of a link to Google Scholar. Go to the word SEARCH on AARE home page and then you will see advanced search links using HTdig AARE's own site service and also a link to Google Scholar.
ALL AARE CONTENT IN GS:
Google Scholar has been alerted to the Conferences Papers Collections [the Downunder Goldmine] and they are now indexing the 5,000 papers in that collection. The collection is an excellent research information service built on the submission of full text papers to AARE at each conference. Now all we have to do is get ALL presenters to deposit on disk!
CONFERENCE 2006 NEWS:
AARE Office has now started requesting help in refereeing from academic colleagues around the world/Australia. Not every proposer has yet been notified because the volunteer committee in Adelaide has been overwhelmed. Refereeing administrative fees are coming in and also some full registrations. [AARE Office gets a copy of the payment receipts made via EFTPOS but we don't see credit card numbers. You don't need to write and tell us you have paid]. A few would be presenters have not paid 4 day registrations. Such people will be reminded of the need for presenters to be registered for the full conference in order to present in the Program. We now have paper 854 being processed by the committee and a few more yet to go. Abstracts of all these papers [ excluding refereed papers proposals until they pass] will be posted on the website in August. This is done so that presenters can check their work before we print the 400pp Abstract Book. Please read the website guidelines and updating information posted each week.
Go to http://www.aare.edu.au/conf2006/index.htm
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS:
AARE Executive committee meets next Monday in Sydney. Any member having business for the Executive should contact the Hon. Secretary Debra Cunningham debrac@btr.qld.edu.au
AARE NEWS:
This is a continuation of the forlorn cry of all AARE newsletter editors over the years - please send contributions/stories for the newsletter to pjeff@aare.edu.au by 1 st July 2006.
AER PUBLISHED:
The first issue of AER for 2006 Vol 33 No. 3 April 2006 has been published. See it at http://www.aare.edu.au/aer/contents.htm
RARE #6 PRINTED:
The book [special issue of the AER] Counterpoints on the Quality and Impact of Educational Research - RARE #6 is printed and is at the bindery. It will be distributed free to financial members of AARE in the next few weeks. AARE Office is now cleaning the distribution list to remove those who have not renewed their membership because they are not entitled to receive a free copy. The book is $44.00. Pay on-line by SECURE PAYMENT. http://www.aare.edu.au/secure/rare6.htm
Renew membership or join now at http://www.aare.edu.au/members/mem-form.htm
 
Peter Jeffery
AARE Executive Member
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
There are 5.000 full text research papers available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 1/6/2006
EXTENSION TO 7TH JUNE:
THIS APPLIES ONLY TO PAPERS FOR FULL REFEREEING.
Please quote the papercode in the accompanying email.
Do not send if you do not have a papercode number.
If you do not have a number it is because your proposal has not been sent to the committee.
SANITIZING PAPERS:
Do not have any institution name or your name on papers to go to refereeing.
PROGRESS ON PROCESSING:
AARE Office has 979 un-read emails in the inbox. Many of them will be full papers or replies from committee reviewers. As of now we have processed to the committee any inwards proposals received up to 11 May 2006 [for as closing date of 30th April].
AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 28/05/2006
PROCESSING PROPOSALS PROGRESS:
AARE Office has processed 166 proposals over Sunday and is up to paper number 771 received on 1/05/06 at 8.24am. The inbox on aare@aare.edu.au still contains 685 messages but many of them are from reviewers on the committee like Judith Gill and Julie Clarke who have been busy working on approvals on Sunday too. Julie has approved 35 papers this afternoon, and Judy is not far behind her.
LATE PROPOSALS:
We are processing those received in the few days after the deadline of 30th April as there are many and varied genuine reasons proffered for the circumstances for each being late. However, in fairness to the people who did do the work on time [even the people who put in incomplete proposals just ahead of closing - just to beat the closing date but messing all the processing up and doubling the work]. - the 2006 conference is now CLOSED.
AARE Office will receive applications and proposals for 2007 Conference from 1/01/07 through to 30 th April 2007.
MEMBERS OVERSEAS:
AARE is widespread with members in both East Timor and Indonesia. We hope they are OK despite the problems in those areas. We have 10% of 1400 members in countries other than Australia. This is very healthy for the state of the academy but it is another reason for planning ahead. AARE Conference dates are the same every year and the submission dates are also the same every year. Likewise the closing dates for AARE Award applications are advertised and have been fixed for several years. The Association has done this to make it possible for orderly conduct of business by a largely volunteer group.
AARE NEWS 55:
Closing date is 1 st July for submissions. AARE NEWS closing dates are 1 st March, 1 st April, 1 st July and 1 st October each year. No excuse for lateness!
READ ARCHIVED MESSAGES AND DETAILS ON WEBSITE:
Most questions about AARE and AARE 2006 conference can be answered by consulting the AARE website. Please search and read before pinging questions at AARE's already voluminous email inbox.
AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast message 23/5/2006
AWARDS CLOSING:
Applications for student travel awards close on 30th June. Last year there was only one award made to the only applicant who submitted a quality paper. Can't we give money away? AARE budgets $7,000 PA for help for students to get to conference. Supervisors, please alert suitable candidates! See website for details.
IN THE TOP TEN:
AARE NEWS had 1506 hits in the web statistics this month, putting it in the top ten URLs contacted by users of AARE website. Right now AARE Office is posting 1400 hardcopies of the newsletter to all financial members so even those who did not look at the website will get a copy of the NEWS - all about the RQF. More next issue, so watch out for it. Maybe even think about contributing?? Next NEWS "copy date" is 1st July.
PROCESSING PROPOSALS:
Ruth is convinced on anecdotal evidence that AARE members are very religious - all went to church on Sunday morning [30th April] and then came home to send off their proposal for AARE 2006 Conf. just before the closing time. We are now processing paper proposal 593 received early afternoon on 30/4/06. About two thirds have been done. Pity the poor committee working voluntarily for YOU.
REFEREED PAPERS:
Don't wait till approval to write your full paper -- do it now. Very few proposals are rejected [on grounds of being commercial, unethical attacks, not research, etc.] however they must all be checked and approved by the committee. The closing date for submission of full papers for refereeing is 31st May. Be ready by completing the writing. Don't forget to pay the refereeing admin fee on-line too because the process will not start without payment. [You can wait to pay the rego fee but that's easy, just put in a second rego form later]. All presenters must eventually register for all 4 days of conference to allow freedom to the Program compilers making a quality, cohesive program.
GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTERS AND FAQ:
Two new links have been placed on the Adelaide 2006 sub-index under "next conference" on AARE website. You should read these for guidance! Please don't send emails asking for information on what has been written already for you.

AARE Office
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AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
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Broadcast message 17/06/2006
A NEW REVIEWING GROUP ASSISTING

Proposals for presentations at conference are being processed as fast as possible. To assist turnaround from the committee, the Convenor has added a new group of 3 to the existing 3 groups of 3 committee members who are being flooded with emails from AARE office. Please be patient.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:

As is the familiar pattern for AARE conferences, most proposals are received in the last few days prior to closing date with a few stragglers drifting in over the next week or so with special dispensations for lateness.

We are busy processing proposals [from 5.00am till 9.00pm daily] and passing them through to the committee who are busy dealing with proposals that came in prior to 29/04/06. We have no time to write to tell people where their applications are located in the over 600 we have received [and many of them are for multiple paper symposiums]. Each committee person reviewing proposals for suitability sends us emails giving their verdict so we receive 3 votes on every proposal. Since we are now doing proposal 502 we have received 1506 emails with committee decisions. We can't notify proposers of the results till all 3 votes of committee are in hand. We are up to proposal 502, 29/4/06 in date order.

Please see AARE broadcast messages on AARE website which explain where we are up to and how we are adding names to the list as proposals are processed. More people are getting this message for example than the previous messages. [All messages can be read on AARE website].

SAMPLE OF CONTENT APPROVED:

Here is a snapshot of the titles of proposals that have been approved by the committee for presentation at the conference. PLEASE don't write and ask for more details!!

Practicing Deleuze's philosophy in/for education
Deleuzian concepts in education
So how does it work? - rhizomatic methodologies
Performing educational research as science fiction
Deleuze on Ethical Education
Deleuze, Education and the Cultural Economy
Deleuze's logic of affect: (dis)solving the learning paradox
Towards minor pedagogies: Teaching as a collective becoming
The Deleuzian contribution to the philosophy of life: Consequences for education
Affective pedagogy
Future teachers' developing numeracy and mathematical competence as assessed by two diagnostic tests
The development and evaluation of a blended constructivist learning environment
School suspension, principals and decision making
The end of pedagogy
A pedagogy of the broken middle
Constructivism - rhetoric and reality
Educative pedagogy
Teacher-student belief comparison: A method in the madness
"Tertiary De-generation": What boomer educators need to know
Managing challenges in an authentic learning environment: The case of peer-tutoring
Reflection in action: Examining the place, impact and management issues surrounding the integration of reflection in classroom practice
Researching educational technology in South Africa
Understandings of ICTs in Education in South Africa
Educational leadership for transformational sustainability: A critical examination of current pedagogical practices
Doom and gloom or a time for optimism: Potential aspirants' views about school leadership - now and for the future
Teacher education for effective literacy teaching
Quality teaching - Our learning journey action research project
Mobile pedagogies: Spatially producing the learner-teacher
Intervention for children with language impairments: A model of evidence based outcome research
Theory of the practicum: A discursive and narrative view of secondary preservice teacher education
Single-age and multi-age groupings in kindergarten and their effect on literacy achievement
Peer review: Hits and misses
Multipurpose model of the circle in Mathematics teaching
Learning as an encounter between selves: The teacher, student and the testimonial text
Learning to be a woodturner
Learning from the story of a great leader
Changing schools with research/ers: Stories from the UK
Visitors and learners: Investigating adultmuseum visitors' learning identities
Educational Research and its Publics
Curriculum renewal pathways for English for Specific Purposes teachers
Empowering learning through the Teach-Learn Model
Developing teaching as a profession and the professional development of teachers: discourses, demographics and life long learning
Physical theatre as a pedagogy for students of Health and Physical Education: An exploration of university level students' experiences with alternative forms of teaching
Problems in teaching non-Roman script to English speakers
Confronting the challenge of diversity in the Foundation Level Programme of Monash South Africa
Assessment on the Run
The effects of stimulus control on the preformance levels of children with intellectual disabilities
Approaches to learning in the South Pacific region: A confirmatory factor analysis study
Integrating the physically challenged in mainstream education: Teach Me's perspective
Participants' perceptions of the effectiveness of a training course on their practice as tertiary educators
Overcoming disadvantage through the innovative classroom
Is there anybody there? Virtual learning on a part time professional training programme
Analyzing teachers' discretion
Constructing quality physical education programs in the middle years
Revisiting the trichotomous achievement goal framework for Hong Kong secondary students: A structural modeling analysis
A multi-sensory approach to enhancing writing in Chinese
The interests at stake in an educational partnership
Learning through discovery: Early learning through art
Perturbative analogies: Fostering creativity in postgraduate research students
Reforming teacher preparation through partnerships
Woolaning: An experiment in Indigenous education
Behavioural problem boys' voices on violence and authority: Psychology vs Sociology
Approaches to learning in Educational Psychology and Mathematics: A comparative analysis in the South Pacific region
Strategic leadership in schools - evidence from research
Teacher ICT skills: Evaluation of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) knowledge and skills levels of Western Australian government school teachers
"Who do you think you're talking to?" - The language of learning, teaching and assessment strategies
Are values more important than learning styles? - Factors influencing student performance at an international university
Children's voices: Methods, results and policies
Generic capabilities for lifelong education: Conceptualization and construct validity
Workload and psychological wellbeing of Hong Kong teachers
Silos, students and centripetal forces: The institutional and social environments affecting academic innovations for sustainability in the Canadian and Australian tertiary sector
Specificity of components of self-concept
Transformed practice in a pedagogy of Multiliteracies: revoicing the world through claymation movie-making
The experienced teacher in the Elearning environment
Using a self assessment manual for reflection on practice with preservice early childhood students
Evaluating experiential teaching and learning in interdisciplinary wound care settings for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
 and that's only up to paper number 79 - we are now processing paper 509.

REFEREEING PAPERS:

Don't wait for approval before writing your full paper but don't senbd it in till you hear from us. It is probably unnecessary to tell you not to pay till you have to submit your paper!!

AARE Office
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AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 13/5/2006
PROPOSALS PROGRESS
AARE Office is now processing proposals in the 400s sent in on 28th April at about 4.00pm. The reviewers of all abstracts [panels of AARE 2006 conference committee] are also buried in the work of appraising suitability for our research conference. Work continues from 5.00am to 9.30pm daily so all will be processed as soon as possible. If your proposal is unequivocally educational research and you have a full paper to prepare and submit by 31st May then we suggest you write it now, assuming that the committee will approve your proposed presentation.
NEW SERVICE PROVIDED
While all the processing is going ahead, AARE Office has also developed a new service for AARE members by appointing a consultant to organize accommodation deals and options for members attending the conference. On AARE web site [Adelaide section] you will find www.aare.edu.au/conf2006/accomm.htm This sets out an Excel spreadsheet of hotels etc. that have reserved blocks of rooms for AARE at special prices. But, be quick. The Ashes Cricket test is on in Adelaide at the time of AARE 2006 Conference and accommodation is scarce and getting "as rare as hen's teeth" the closer we get to November. For example the Majestic Group no longer have any rooms on 30th November the last day of AARE Conference. That change has happened overnight! The spreadsheet on AARE web site will be up-dated every week on Fridays.
EFFECTS OF TV AND MULTIMEDIA
The Victorian Parliament has written to AARE seeking comments on - Is multimedia changing students' learning styles?
How can multimedia be used to enhance learning among diverse students?
How well are students' media literary needs being addressed? Is any member of AARE interested in responding?    www.parliament.vic.gov.au/etc
ADDING EMAILS
We are adding the emails of people whose proposals have been processed. Welcome if you are new to AARE. Please note REPLY TO emails to these broadcast messages are deleted unread. Start a new message to AARE with a new subject if you want to contact AARE. You can read archived copies of all messages on AARE web site. Please tell people who are still waiting for their proposal to be processed [and have not therefore been added to this broadcast list] -- that all is well, we are working through in date order.


AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 9/5/2006
WELCOME TO NEW PEOPLE
We have added to this list all the people whose proposals for the AARE 2006 Adelaide Conference have been processed through to the Committee. That's about 300 people. The footer to this message explains how it works SO PLEASE DON"T USE REPLY TO if you want to write to AARE. Write a new message to aare@aare.edu.au Replies are deleted unread because we get hundreds of out of office messages!
PROGRESS ON CONFERENCE PROPOSALS:
At the close of presentations we had some 600 propositions many of them multiple paper symposia. As a result the AARE Office is somewhat happily buried in a wealth of academic endeavour. We are a bit disturbed by the lack of propositions about meetings and book launches and the like because we know they always come. But, the Committee needs them now - on the forms provided.
RQF NEWS:
Just about the whole of AARE NEWS #54 MAY 2006 is about the RQF. A number of members have worked really hard and quickly to give you the very latest information on this matter. Normally we don't publish the NEWS on-line till the time of posting the hardcopies out to members ONLY [because we think members should get things ahead of the public]. BUT THIS ISSUE IS SO IMPORTANT for you to get CURRENT INFORMATION we have already put it on the website at www.aare.edu.au/news/newsplus/news54.pdf
AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 01/05/2006
06 CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED
AARE Office now has some 400 proposals waiting for processing. Each will take about 15 minutes to process into the database and to be copied to the panels of Adelaide Committee for vetting. When those hardworking colleagues have assented or declined the proposal proposers will be informed.
ENQUIRIES
Writing answers to people who ask about the progress of their proposal delays processing of proposals. Please be patient. We have contemplated an automatic acknowledgment response but we prefer to allocate the paper code number and enter all the data in our spreadsheet before possibly losing track of anyone's work.
NEW MEETINGS FORM
About now in the time scale of every conference all sorts of people propose meetings by sending emails that sometimes are far from precise. We have put a new form on the website [under Adelaide] so that we can be sure not to miss your event in the allocation of rooms, times and equipment. Please use the form so we can get it right and advertise your meeting after it is approved.
DO NOT ASSUME
There are some regular events and some special "I wants" for every conference. ALL PLANNED EVENTS OR HAPPENINGS MUST BE PROPOSED AND APPROVED BY THE COMMITTEE. That means you MUST FILL IN A FORM and attach it to an email to AARE Office.
AARE NEWS
A special issue on the RQF is in preparation and will be published on the 15th May. Submissions for the issue close on Wednesday 3rd May.
AARE OFFICE
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 22/4/2006
CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSING
The closing date, 30th April, for proposals for the AARE 2006 Conference - Adelaide is coming closer. NINE DAYS TO GO! AARE Office is processing many proposals and passing them through to the Adelaide Committee for approval for presentation in November.
ALL EVENTS NEED PROPOSALS
Proposals are required for any meeting, research paper, symposium, workshop or whatever for the conference. The Planning Committee decides on whether events can occur. This is an important element in quality control for the conference and no-one should assume that they can obtain a place in the packed 4 day program until a proposal has been submitted and approved.
PROPOSALS PROCESSED IN ORDER OF RECEIPT
At present we have a large number of proposals, many of which will require full paper refereeing. Proposals are assigned a code number and full details are entered into a database before being acknowledged to the proposer and going to the committee. Subsequently, the committee decision is passed on to the proposer. Please quote paper codes in the subject line of email messages to speed processing and avoid programming problems in a conference anticipating 700 papers in 4 days!
DATES
A member has phoned to clarify closing dates. They are re-stated in the latest AARE NEWS [#53] as 30th April closing date for proposals / abstracts using forms available from AARE website. 31st May is the closing date for full papers if they are to be refereed.
CD OF 2005 PAPERS BEING MAILED
AARE Office will be posting the CD Proceedings to all registrants for the Parramatta [AARE 2005] conference this coming week. There are some 300 full text papers in the 2005 collection - approximately 50% of all papers presented. Publication in the digital archive does not inhibit publication in journals or books but it does mean immediate web access and a permanent digital record for the public good.
HIGH RESPONSE RATE
Many thanks to very many members who have taken some of our future conferences flyers to distribute them around the world. We can still supply packets of 25 flyers to anyone who is willing to distribute them. We have awarded a special commendation to a member of the AARE 2007 Conference Committee who has taken several hundred flyers. But our Canadian and other overseas members have also pitched in to help.
AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 2/4/2006
REMINDER - DO NOT REPLY TO THESE MESSAGES. REPLIES ARE DELETED UN-READ. YOU MUST START A NEW MESSAGE WITH THE SUBJECT YOU WANT TO ADDRESS. IF WE ALLOWED REPLIES ALL OF US COULD RECEIVE ALL THE REPLIES INCLUDING OUT OF OFFICE NOTICES ETC!!
AARE newsletter No. 53 March 2006 is available on-line at http://www.aare.edu.au/news/newsplus/news53.pdf
The issue is at the printer also and will be posted next week to all members. It was delayed by a sudden illnes of a key operator at our printer's factory.
Also delayed is the brochure advertising AARE 2006 Adelaide Conference and its "call for papers". You can see full details of AARE 2006 Conference on our website under "Next Conference". The most important thing at this point of time is to submit proposals for presentations, symposia and meetings by the end of this month.
Many thanks to all the people who have agreed to take a small 150gm packet of 25 flyers on future AARE conferences [2007 and 2008] to distribute overseas. We would still like more volunteers. The flyer is in full colour and you can see it on-line as pdf if you wish, under future conferences.
 
AARE Office
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 25/03/2006
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
AARE needs about 80 members who are going to overseas conferences to each carry a small packet of 25 flyers advertising forthcoming AARE conferences in Perth 2007 and Brisbane 2008. When at the overseas conference please distribute the flyers so that delegates in those overseas confereneces are made aware of our forthcoming events.
This is an important and successful project that we began some 5 years ago to increase the visibility of Australian educational research overseas. We now have about 15% overseas attendance at AARE conferences and many Australian researchers in collaboration with overseas colleagues.
If you are willing to help please send your postal address and how many packets [of 25 flyers] you are willing to carry and distribute to pjeff@aare.edu.au
2006 PROPOSALS DEADLINE APPROACHES
Many proposals for papers and symposia to be presented in November 2006 have been received and processed by the AARE Office and the Adelaide Committee. This is to remind all members that forms for proposals are available on AARE website for you to complete off-line and send to AARE attached to an email. The closing date for 2006 proposals is 30th April 2006 [about 10 days after Easter this year].
AARE Office
aaref@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 10/03/2006
AN OVERVIEW OF 2006 CONFERENCE
This is now available on AARE website. Some illustrations and details need to be completed but most of the information people need is now published. There will be some further information added so you are advised to check this website frequently. Please read the OVERVIEW and the proposal forms carefully.
PROPOSALS PROCESSING
Proposals are flowing in and processing is proceeding with 2 sub-committees of the Planning Committee reviewing proposals that have been submitted. Use the forms on AARE website to submit all your ideas to the committee.
AARE 2006 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
The on-line Registration Form is now available. It contains some new provisions aiming to improve the quality of the discussions and research effort collaborations which are among the main aims of the conference. To continue to control costs we appreciate all payments by SECURE on-line payment [direct EFTPOS with the banks, not AARE]. You get a receipt [tax invoice] in 60 seconds if you use the system. We get a copy without your card details.
CD OF 2005 PAPERS
The CD of last year's papers is almost ready [final checking] prior to publication. The CD is the "fixed digital format proceedings" and by definition cannot be changed after it is sent to the "printer". When we have the 651 copies manufactured we will send one each to all registrants.
AARE NEWS..letter
Issue No.53 is in preparation. It will be accompanied by a full colour brochure about AARE 2006 Conference. We are aiming to get it to all members by post and on-line by the end of March.
AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 12/2/2006
CLOSING DATE FOR PROPOSALS
The Carrick Institute has been informed that their calendar of conferences is wrong about the closing date for AARE 2006 proposals.
AARE Office
aare@aare.edu.au
AARE phone +61 3 59649031
Thousands of full text research papers are available on-line at www.aare.edu.au
Broadcast Message 28/01/2006
Please do not use "reply to" for these messages. All "reply tos" received are deleted UNREAD due to the large number of out of office notices. If you want to contact AARE send a new message to aare@aare.edu.au
2005 CONFERENCE PAPERS ADDED TO DIGITAL ARCHIVE
We have posted almost 400 full text papers submitted by presenters at the AARE 2005 Conference - Parramatta onto AARE website.
HARDCOPIES PAPERS
Hard copies of the above papers have been sent to ACER Cunningham Library where they will be indexed into the Australian Education Index.
Many thanks to the member/researcher/authors who deposited their work in the public interest.
Peter Jeffery
Compiler
AARE Conference Papers Collections
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