CALICO offers hands-on workshops at our annual conference and also throughout the year. These are often (co-)organized by our special interest groups, but at our annual conference, any member can propose a workshop that is of interest to our community.
Current Schedule of Events and Upcoming Online Workshops
October 2024
October 3, 1:00 PDT/4:00 EDT, AI Special Interest Group
Meeting focusing on Transparency and Accountability
Everyone welcome, please register ahead: Zoom – Please register in advance
October 5, 9:00am PDT/12:00pm EDT SLAT SIG Online Workshop (1 Hour Duration)
Everyone Welcome
Proficiency Gap? Tech Strategies to Support Acquisition
As world language classes hit the chopping block in many educational systems and threaten to be replaced with language learning apps, we encounter a critical need to demonstrate proficiency outcomes to maintain relevance. How can we use technologies to support the development of proficiency in language classes? Hope Anderson will provide one strategy used by Teaching Solved; it will be followed by a roundtable discussion for participants to share their own strategies, including breaking into groups by type of language taught for additional relevance.
Join Workshop: https://asu.zoom.us/j/82181848561
October 8, 3:00pm EDT/12:00pm PDT SLAT SIG Meeting
Everyone Welcome
To plan upcoming events and the SIG session for CALICO 2025
Join meeting: https://asu.zoom.us/j/87021767119
January 2025
Finding the Right Tool for Your Task
Workshop Leaders: Ursula Stickler and Joe Hopkins
The ICT-REV team has been collaborating with the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) for over a decade to generate an online, searchable inventory of freely available tools for language teaching. Using the ICT-REV inventory, we will show workshop participants how to locate and evaluate a suitable tool for different teaching tasks. Participants will share their findings and – ideally – continue to contribute to the further development of the inventory beyond the workshop.
More details TBA and registration will be available.
February 2025
Game-based Learning Using Group Projects
Workshop Leader: Mahmoud Amer
This workshop will demonstrate how game-based learning and students’ created projects can function as high impact learning experiences that promote deeper connections with course content. The presenter will share examples projects that promote collaboration, communication, and team building. By the end of the session, participants will be able to 1) create games they can fit within their curricula through open-access technology, including games that promote active learning, 2) think creatively to craft learning experiences that both engage and challenge students, and 3) embrace a new reality that exploits multiple technologies and repurposes existing ones.
More details TBA and registration will be available.
Previously Offered Online Workshops
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we grasped the opportunity of experimenting with distance collaboration technologies to meet up as a community and offer fully online workshops. These workshops happened during specific weeks of the year and were also intended to be as ‘hands-on’ and practical as the face-to-face workshops at our conference. Participants could attend no matter where they were located, and still get to interact with workshop leaders and other attendees.
The documents below give an idea of the online workshops previously on offer. Currently, we are offering online workshops again. You can reach out to info@calico.org if you have any questions or suggestions.