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
May 2026
Friday, May 22 — LTLT SIG Meeting
Register to receive the meeting Zoom link.
See the planned agenda for the meeting.
April 2026
Friday, April 17 — AI SIG — Spring Reading and Discussion
Designing AI-Mediated Tasks for Language Learning — Suggested Reading: Li, Y., Shadiev, R., & Chiu, T. K. F. (2025). Applying generative artificial intelligence to task-based language teaching and learning: A systematic review and meta-analysis. TechTrends.
Time: 4:00–5:00 p.m. EST
Zoom Link: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/86479865167
March 2026
Wednesday, March 18 — LTLT SIG — Research Happy Hour
To register/indicate your interest, please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/VSavGma3KvupQ5HF8
Also, you are welcome to read through the agenda from LTLT’s last meeting.
February 2026
Thursday, February 19 — AI SIG — Spring Conversation Series
Title: Let’s Talk About Talking: Behind the Scenes of Designing and Deploying CustomGPTs for Speaking Practice
Recording of the Event
Time: 5:00–6:00 p.m. EST
Zoom Link (Please save this link): https://nyu.zoom.us/my/christianereves
Guest Speaker:
Kévin LeBlévéc, Rochester Institute of Technology
Friday, February 20 — Grad Student SIG — CALICOffee Talk #2
Title: Analyzing Learner Language through Online Corpora
Time: 1 PM ET | 12 PM CT | 8 AM HST
Register for the Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/calicoffee2
Guest Speaker:
Elizabeth Hanks, University of South Florida
January 2026
Monday, January 26 — LTLT SIG Planning Meeting
5pm EST/4pm CST/3pm Mountain/2pm PST
Register to Attend — View Proposed Agenda
Friday, January 30 — Online Workshop —
Innovative Storytelling with AI: A Pedagogical Model for LCTL and World Language Teachers
4pm EST/3pm CST/2pm Mountain/ 1pm PST
View the Recording
This online workshop introduces language educators to practical ways of combining storytelling pedagogy with AI tools to create multimodal, culturally rich learning experiences. Drawing from classroom-based research in a second-year Urdu course, participants will explore the Story Rewriting and Podcast Creation activity, where students annotated, discussed, rewrote stories, and engaged with differentiated AI-generated audio. The workshop emphasizes thoughtful teacher mediation, prompt design, and strategies for addressing challenges like vocabulary complexity and mispronunciations. The attendees will gain a clear, replicable framework and practical strategies for integrating AI-supported storytelling effectively into their own teaching contexts.
Friday, January 30 — Graduate Student SIG Reading Circle
You’re invited to join our Reading Circle #1 at 12pm ET / 11am CT / 7am HST, during which we’ll keep exploring multimodal CALL!
Read the Article
Pre-register to Attend on Zoom
Previous Events Archive: 2025
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.