BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2026 Technology in Teaching / Professional Development Workshops DTSTART:20260911T000000Z DTEND:20260911T092000Z DTSTAMP:20260908T185200Z UID:indico-event-96@events.jalt.org DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Wayne Malcolm (NPO JALT - Director of Conference)\, Luc Gougeon (Sojo University)\, Robert Remmerswaal (Sojo University)\n\nWe lcome\nFollowing from the success of last year's online workshops\, once a gain\, the TnT/PD Workshops will be online\, September 11th. They will be run in two streams - Technology in Teaching and Professional Development.\ nThe Call for Abstracts runs from June 1 to August 15\, 2026.\nAll session s will be recorded and made available to attendees for 3 months after they are uploaded.\nHOW TO JOIN\nInstructions are available on the following p age. However\, this page is only available to those who have logged in\, r egistered\, and paid.\nhttps://events.jalt.org/event/96/page/53-attend-onl ine-meeting-details\nTechnology in Teaching (TnT)\nThe current and future reality for language teachers is technology in and surrounding our communi ty of practice. Now\, this can be seen negatively or positively. Teachers\ , learners\, and by extension all those connected to the language educatio n field face the challenge of selecting appropriate tools and learning how to use them. The aim of these TnT Workshops is to help participants in at tendance navigate their way through the exciting array of educational tech nologies available\, select those that are appropriate for their context\, and learn how to effectively make use of them in their educational enviro nments. The TnT workshop leaders\, are experts with the techniques and tec hnologies they will demonstrate\, will offer guidance on using specific te chnologies\, and share ways to best integrate the technologies with langua ge teaching and education practices. \nTnT Plenary \nAdam Jenkins\, Asso ciate Professor\, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology\n\nTitle: W hen Teachers Become Toolmakers: AI Agents and Open-Source EdTech\nAbstract :  For educators developing their own software\, open-source platforms li ke Moodle offer a practical advantage: when existing tools don't quite fit \, a plugin is easier to build than a whole new system. This has long been true\, with MoodleReader (later MReader) as one example\, but with AI age nts now able to read\, modify\, and extend open code\, a pedagogical idea can become working software in hours rather than months.This opens new pos sibilities for EFL. The AI Escape Room plugin enables an interaction style unachievable with conventional tools: students converse with an AI charac ter who responds adversarially\, providing opportunities to practice the l anguage of persuasion\, making their case against an opponent who provides a genuine challenge that a human partner or scripted dialogues cannot rep licate. Another example\, the Textless Forum\, replaces typed forum posts with audio and video recordings for asynchronous speaking. Both were creat ed with an AI agent building on Moodle\, and demonstrate that custom tools are now accessible to anyone with an idea worth trying.Bio: Adam Jenkins is an associate professor at the Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technol ogy where he is also the system administrator for the university-wide iLea rn@SIST Moodle platform. In addition\, Adam is known in the Moodle world f or his instructional videos about Moodle administration on the WiseCat You Tube channel. \n\nProfessional Development (PD)\nThe technology-based pre sentations are our digital offering\, while the PD workshops are our more analog offering. At these workshops you can learn more about\, for example \, data analysis approaches for your research study\, writing abstracts\, developing ideas for research studies\, how to enhance your resume\, troub leshooting a thesis or dissertation proposal\, career planning\, etc. Tech nology may be a dominant feature in our lives as the global pandemic force d educators and learners alike to develop new cyber competencies. The time s also pushed educators\, learners\, researchers\, etc. to hone their othe r competencies. The PD workshops are JALTs way to provide additional suppo rt to our community of practice.\nPD Plenary \nGregory Glasgow\, Professo r\, Kanda University of International Studies\n\nTitle: Establishing My Sc holarly Voice Through Academic Publishing: Reflections on the Journey and the Road Ahead\nAbstract: Publishing journal articles\, book chapters\, a nd books was something I never imagined when I began my career in language education. Yet\, over two and a half decades\, what once seemed beyond my reach gradually became possible. Looking back\, I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to discover and establish a scholarly voice I could scarce ly have imagined at the outset. In this talk\, I reflect on the principles and practices that enabled me to develop that voice within TESOL and appl ied linguistics. I invite audience members to consider the trajectories th at might suit their goals as I explore five principles that have become a personal mantra: (1) developing a research identity\; (2) pursuing goals t hrough incremental but concerted action\; (3) cultivating meaningful resea rch partnerships\; (4) never being afraid to make “the big ask”\; and (5) learning by observing and adapting effective scholarly practices. Audi ence members will consider how these principles might support their publis hing journeys\, development\, and future scholarly aspirations.\nBio: Gre gory Paul Glasgow is Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Kand a University of International Studies in Japan. His research spans critica l applied linguistics\, critical realism\, educational sociolinguistics\, Global Englishes\, language policy\, teacher education\, and the socioprag matics of intercultural communication. He has authored and edited five boo ks\, with his latest co^edited monograph entitled English Language Educati on in Japan: Negotiating Global Transformation and Local Innovation (Routl edge). He is a founding member of the JALT Global Englishes SIG and serves as an editorial committee member for the Japan Black Studies Association. \n\nConference Team\nConference Chair - Wayne Malcolm\nConference Coordina tors - Robert Remmerswaal and Luc Gougeon\n\nhttps://events.jalt.org/event /96/ IMAGE;VALUE=URI:https://events.jalt.org/event/96/logo-969581693.png LOCATION:Online URL:https://events.jalt.org/event/96/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR