General Information

The 7th International Conference on Creating Activities for Learning Meteorology- CALMet 2007 is to be held in CMATC, Beijing, China from 2-7 July, 2007, hosted by the China Meteorological Administration Training Centre.

The conference will continue with its expanded theme, reflecting the evolution of Computer-Aided Learning from perplexing innovation to everyday tool. The theme will centre on how to use new tools and strategies to create effective and meaningful activities for learning meteorology.

As in past conferences, papers and workshop proposals will be sought on the topics of technology for training delivery, creating learning activities, methods of sharing educational resources, competency-based training, metadata and data format standards, learning object development, and social aspects of encouraging learning.

The Call for Papers for CALMet 2007 is now available! Submissions will be accepted online at the CALMet web at http://calmet.comet.ucar.edu/index.htm.

If you are in East Asia and have difficulties when logging on to the above website, a substitute abstract submission site is provided in this website, http://stream1.cma.gov.cn/calmet/.

Look for the preliminary conference schedule in spring, 2007.