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
January 2025
January 17 — Demo: MyConversationTrainer
📆 Date: Friday, 01/17/25
⏰ Time: 11am PT/1pm CT/2pm ET
đź“Ť Location: Please register in advance on Zoom
The event will be hosted by Antonio Pérez-Núñez, Spanish Professor and Developer of MyConversationTrainer. MyConversationTrainer enhances your Spanish classes and supports your teaching, helping your students develop their language skills through engaging AI-powered conversation practice and feedback.
January 24 (rescheduled from the 17th) — Reading Circle
📆: Friday, Jan. 17
⏰: 4-5 pm ET/ 2-3 pm MT/ 1-2 pm PT
đź“Ť: Zoom- Please pre-register using this link: https://shorturl.at/iAWco
https://shorturl.at/iAWcohttps://shorturl.at/iAWcThe Graduate Student SIG invites you to our second reading circle of the year!
For this reading circle, we will be reading:
Kang, J. (2022). Transfer of knowledge across genres and media: Investigating L2 learners’ multiple composing practices. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 56, 101096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2022.101096
We want to thank Marlene Tovar (Arizona State University) for hosting this circle.
February 2025
February 7th — Online Workshop
Friday, February 7th, 2.5 hours length – 10:00am-12:30pm PT/12:00 – 2:30pm CT/1:00-3:30 ET/6:00pm-8:30pm London
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. Small fee for attendance.
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.