CALL Newsletter - August 2016 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE PAST CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
•  DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP: BEYOND BORDERS IN CYBERSPACE
•  3 ESSENTIAL APPS THAT PROMOTE ENGAGEMENT, RETENTION, AND EQUITY IN YOUR CLASSROOM
•  HOW TO CHANGE TEACHER RESISTANCE IN USING TECHNOLOGY INTO TEACHER RESILIENCE
EXTRA CATEGORY
•  MAKING CONNECTIONS
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  CALL FOR ARTICLES

 

ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY

CALL FOR ARTICLES


The CALL- IS newsletter, On CALL, encourages submission of many types of articles related to CALL: software, website or book reviews, announcements, reports on conferences, presentations or webcasts that you might have participated in. If you have suggestions, ideas, and/or questions, send them to Larry Udry.

General Submission Guidelines

Articles should

  1. Have a title (written in ALL CAPS).
  2. Have the author’s name with hyperlinked email, affiliation, city, country (in that order).
  3. Have an author photo: 90px (width) x 120px (height), jpeg format, a head-and-shoulder shot (clear, clean, and professional), preferably including the person's name who took the shot.
  4. Include a 2- to 3-sentence (50 words or fewer) teaser for the newsletter homepage.
  5. Be no longer than 1,750 words (includes bylines, teasers, main text, tables, and author bios). Articles longer than 1,750 words can be included, but will not be copyedited.
  6. Contain no more than five citations. Reference lists with more than five citations can be included, but will not be copyedited.
  7. Follow the style guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (APA style).
  8. Be in MS Word (.doc(x)) or rich text (.rtf) format.
  9. Include Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). TESOL submission guidelines require authors to provide DOIs for their reference list citations. For more on DOIs, read below.
  10. Have a 2- to 3-sentence author biography at the end of the article.
  11. Have hyperlinks that have meaningful urls (e.g., here).
  12. Have charts, graphs, audio files, video files, and images that enhance the article.
  13. Accurately and completely credit sources, including students. Do not take online content (including photos) from other websites without attribution. Contact me for the permission forms.
  14. Respect fair use and the intellectual property rights of others. For a definition of fair use, go here. According to TESOL: “ Please note that the copyright holder, not TESOL, determines what counts as fair use, and that the author is not always the copyright holder. When a scholarly journal publishes an article, for example, it often requires the author to assign copyright to the journal or the publisher.”
  15. Get written permission for borrowed material (including photos) and send the signed permissions forms. Contact me for the permission forms.

We publish the newsletter twice a year,  February/March and July/August. The deadline for the February/March newsletter is 20 February, and the deadline for the July/August edition is 30 June.

Book reviews of between 300 and 500 words should provide the reviewer's analysis of books that are relevant to the practice and theory of CALL.

Revised: March 2016 TESOL’s Copyright & Permissions for IS Newsletter Editors

This is condensed from TESOL’s Revised Copyright & Permissions for IS Newsletter Editors

As you write scholarly articles, make sure you

  • Please note that, according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.), reproducing or adapting photos, tables, and figures from published and online sources requires more than a citation. They are not the same as printed sources, and authors usually need to secure written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce them. For photos, be sure to include the name of the photographer, if you know it.
  • You may not reproduce material from TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, or the TESOL website (including photos) without written permission from TESOL.
  • IS newsletters are technically TESOL publications. Failure to respect U.S. copyright law puts you and TESOL at risk legally. Make it easy for others to respect your authors’ copyright.
  • Note that, although TESOL asks authors of articles that appear in its peer-reviewed serial publications to assign copyright for their work to TESOL, the authors of IS newsletter articles retain their copyright. Therefore, authors may do what they wish with their articles after they appear in the newsletter.
  • Include author email addresses in their bylines so that people interested in borrowing or reprinting work from your newsletter can respect your authors’ copyrights.