Program
Registered attendees, please visit our Whova site for zoom links to events.
Thursday, March 4th 2021
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3:00-3:15 pm | Opening and welcome: Meg Malone, Lara Bryfonski, Alison Mackey |
| 3:15-4:15 pm EST | Opening Practitioner-Plenary: Michelle A. Banks, ASL Teacher at Wakefield High School and Artistic Director of VOCA – Visionaries of the Creative Arts, Inc. Online ASL, challenges and opportunities for teaching and learning: A practitioner’s perspective |
| 4:30-5:45 pm EST | Panel 1: Online language learning: Students describe their experiences and perspectives in a discussion of challenges and opportunities Facilitated by: Celia Zamora |
| 5:45-6:00 pm EST | Break |
| 6:00-7:15 pm EST | Panel 2: Language Instructors give their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of online language teaching and learning |
| 7:30 pm EST | Opening Research Plenary: Chun Lai, University of Hong Kong Beyond the Classroom: Technology and Self-Directed Language Learning |
Friday, March 5th 2021
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am EST | Welcome |
| 9:15-10:30 am EST | Panel 3: Supporting schools, teachers and programs: Administrators provide their perspectives on online language teaching and learning |
| 10:30-10:40 | Break |
| 10:40-11:45 am EST | Second Plenary: Pia Sundqvist, University of Oslo and Karlstad University Online gaming and game-changing: From learning to teaching |
| 11:45-12:45 pm EST | Networking Breakout rooms and discussion groups for meeting other conference attendees |
| 12:45-1:45 pm EST | Break |
| 1:45-3:00pm EST | Panel 4: Researchers’ perspectives on online and computer-mediated language learning Facilitated by: Amelia Tseng – Luis Cerezo, American University – Shannon Sauro, University of Maryland, Baltimore County – Nicole Ziegler, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa |
| 3:00-3:15 pm EST | Break |
| 3:15-4:15 pm EST | Closing Plenary: Bryan Smith, Arizona State University The new normal? Experiences, opinions and predictions about language teaching in a post-COVID world |
| 4:15-5:15 pm EST | Final discussion of conference themes and conclusions |