| Sumario: | You are holding in your hands the proceedings of the 6th Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Koli Calling. The conference was held in November 2006. The papers presented at the conference, and collected in these proceedings were of excellent quality and highlight both the depth and the variety of the emerging field of Computing Education Research. Twenty-nine papers/posters, one invited seminar and two invited speeches were presented during the three conference days. Lecia Barker, ATLAS, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, broadened our perspective on students' experience of power and gender, through her speech Defensive climate in the computer science classroom, originally written by Dr Barker together with Kathy Garvin-Doxas, and Michele Jackson for the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, 2002. The Koli Calling conference thanks ACM for a travel grant for Dr Barker. Tony Clear took the discussion further, by introducing critical enquiry to the community in his talk Valuing Computer Science Education Research?, finally Matti Terdre discussed the interaction between computer science and the community in his seminar The Development of Computer Science: A Sociocultural Perspective. Contributions to the main conference can take one of three forms. Research papers present unpublished, original research, presenting novel results, methods, tools, or interpretations that contribute to solid, theoretically anchored research. System papers describe tools for learning or instruction in computing education, motivated by the didactic needs of teaching computing, while Discussion papers provide a forum for presentation of novel ideas and prototypes. Finally, the Posters had their focus on work in process. All papers and posters were double-blind peer reviewed by members of the international program committee.
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