Dear CALL-IS Members,

I am excited to tell you about this year’s events in the 2017 Electronic Village (EV) and Technology Showcase. We received more than 350 proposals this year and were able to accept more than 100 presentations. These presentations will take place 22–24 March in a variety of events at the TESOL 2017 convention.

Back this year to the EV and Technology Showcase are EV Fairs, Mini-Workshops, Developers’ Showcase, and Mobile Apps for Education. The EV Classics, invited popular presentations from past EV events, are also back this year. We have several great presentations lined up, and I can’t wait for everyone to see what we have planned.

New this year in the Technology Showcase is a panel event, “On the Cutting Edge: Graduate Student Research.” In this series of panel events, we will have several graduate students share their research in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and related areas. Also new this year, we invited the CALL membership to recommend topics for our Hot Topics panels. We received a lot of great feedback and have developed five panels from the suggestions made. The Hot Topics panels this year include presentations on online professional development, MOOCs, professional development in low-resource areas, students and digital literacy, and gaming in language learning.

Can’t make it to Seattle this year? Don’t worry; you can still follow along online. Our webcast team has been working hard this year to bring many of our panels to you. Keep track of these events and everything we have planned at the convention on our webpage.

I also want to take the time to thank our team of volunteers who help run our events, moderate our panels, and review our proposals. Without you we would not be able to put on the EV and Technology Showcase each year. Thank you so much, everyone, for your hard work this year. We have some really great things in store for TESOL 2017 in Seattle.

Regards,

Stephanie Korslund

Stephanie Korslund is an e-learning specialist at the University of Dayton. She received her PhD from Ohio University in instructional technology with a focus on computer-assisted language learning.