December 7-14: invitation by the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) for lectures and transnational cooperation building, Shanghai.
November 24: grant to attend the GO-TRAIN Workshop on FAIR training and skills, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Hamburg, Germany.
November 3-6, 3rd Intensive Course in Laser Based Patterning & Sintering Processes, iPEN project, Friedrich Alexander Universität Nurnberg-Erlangen, Germany.
October 4: grant to attend the Impact event of PARTHENOS project, National Museum, Rome.
September 26: 2nd project meeting, CRETE project, Brussels.
July 4-6: “Dynamics of role playing and social participation in online language learning communities”, presentation (with Anthippi Potolia) at XIX Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) conference, Bruges.
June 7-9: “Apprendre, accompagner et produire dans une communauté d’apprentissage des langues en ligne : heur ou malheur ?” talk (with Anthippi Potolia) at EPAL conference 2018, Grenoble.
May 23-24: Digital Humanities Course Registry Metadatathon; organised by the Digital Research Architecture for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) annual meeting, Paris. Scholarship to attend the workshop.
March 14: “Crowdsourcing: language learning and commercial imperatives in web 2.0 language learning communities”. Talk at EnetCollect network meeting, Iasi, Romania. Slides.
March 12: “Crowdsourcing in language learning and teaching: “small” languages’ achievements”. Invited talk at University of Iceland, Department of Languages. Slides.
March, 1-12: research stay at the University of Reykjavik, Iceland. Grant for a Short-term scientific mission (STSM) awarded by the EnetCollect network.
February, 6-9: winter school on data analytics, GraDAna project, University of Bonn.
2017 Events
October, 10-12: workshop on digital literacies for language teachers in English and French, as part of the E-lang project, Graz, Austria.
September, 28-29: second meeting of MOONLITE project, Berlin, hosted by ESCP Europe, Berlin.
August 28: closing conference, COMALAT project, hosted by the University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany.
July, 13 and 14: first meeting of GraDAna meeting, University of Bonn/Fraunhofer-Institut.
June 24: (with Roula Kitsiou and Eleutheria Zaga): presentation “Σχεδιάζοντας εκπαιδευτικό υλικό για ενήλικες πρόσφυγες: Προκλήσεις και διλήμματα”, conference “Refugee Education and Support”, Athens.
March 28: (with Anthippi Potolia): Webinar “Apprentissages non formels en réseaux”, at the seminar “Environnements numériques pour l’enseignement-apprentissage des langues”, Centre de linguistique appliquée & Université de Franche-comté, Besançon, France.
March, 9-10: Fifth group meeting of COMALAT project. Thessaloniki, Greece (participant: Katerina).
March, 7: 1st Management Committee meeting of the COST project “European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques” (enCollect), Brussels
2016 events
November, 28-29: Kick-off meeting of MOONLITE project. Madrid, hosted by UNED (participant: Katerina).
November, 24-26: presentation “Apprendre les langues au sein d’une communauté web 2.0 : regards sur l’autonomie des apprenants”at Ranaclès 2016 conference, Paris (speaker: Anthippi).
August 24-27: EUROCALL conference 2016. Presentation on Social networking affordances for open educational language practice. Limassol, Cyprus (speaker: Katerina).
June 30-July 1st: presentation at the International conference Future of Education, Florence, Italy (speaker: Katerina)
June 22: invited talk at The Future of Learning: Critical Perspectives on Higher Education in the Digital Age. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. (speaker: Katerina). Slides.
April 9-12: joint presentation with Carl Blyth and Joshua Thoms at AAAL conference, Orlando, USA. Title: An International OER/OEP Initiative: How Open is Foreign Language Education in the United States and Europe? (speaker: Katerina). Details
February, 4-5: first meeting of the Elang project, funded by ECML. Graz, Austria. (participant: Katerina).
2015 TEL events we were involved in
November, 19-20: workshop “Open resources for science education”, at the Scientix/EMINENT conference, Barcelona. (speaker: Ioannis). Slides and blog post.
November, 7: OER in Greek language and how to reuse them. Workshop co-organized with Sofia Papaditriou, Greek Ministry of Education, at the 2015 ICODL conference. (speaker: Ioanns). Slides and blog post.
October, 20-21: 12th seminar of EdReNe (Educational Repositories Network). Hosted by the Danish Ministry of Education, Copenhagen (speaker: Giulia).
October, 7-9: seminar on “OER and Regional anf Minority languages”, Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (speaker: Giulia).
September, 25: final meeting and conference of OREA project, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece (participant: Katerina, acting as external evaluator).
May, 30-31:LangOER teacher training course for Greek educators on OER and OEP. (organizers and speakers: Ioannis and Katerina). Blog post.
April 24-26: 22nd Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics (ISTALL22), Thessaloniki, Greece. Talk on “Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used languages: a European state-of-the art study and insights into the Greek landscape” in relation to LangOER project (speaker: Ioannis)
April 14-15:OER15 conference, Cardiff, Wales. Talk on “Social networks and their role in Open Educational language Practice and interaction”, in relation to LangOER project (speaker: Giulia)
November 3-4: kick-off meeting of ExplOERer project, Thessaloniki (participants: Ioannis and Katerina). Slides available.
October 13-16: LangOER international workshop followed by project meeting. Oslo (participant: Ioannis).
August 20-23: ““OER: insights into a multilingual landscape” at the EUROCALL 2014 Conference. Co-organised with Tita Beaven, Kate Borthwick, Linda Bradley, and Sylvi Vigmo.
March 14: Sustainability in OER for less used languages Webinar of the LangOER project during the Open Education Week. Co-organised with Linda Bradley, Anne-Christin Tannhaüser, Sylvi Vigmo (speaker: Katerina).
27-28 January: First LangOER meeting in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (participants: Giulia and Katerina).
2013 TEL events attended by our team:
12-13 December: ALSIC conference “Médias sociaux et apprentissage des langues: quelle(s) nouveauté(s)?” Montpellier (speaker: Katerina).
7-8 November: Web2LLP final event and workshop, Coventry University (speaker: Tatiana)
25-26 September. European Commission conference on “Languages for mobility, jobs and active citizenship“. Organised by DG EAC and Lithuanian presidency of the Council of European Union. Vilnius, Lithuania (Invited speaker: Katerina)
11-14 September: EUROCALL 2013 conference, conference talk “Social media training and support for European project managers: the Web2LLP project”. EÉvora, Portugal (speaker: Katerina)
10-13 July: WorldCALL Paper presentation (research) Intrinsic motivation in a blended learning environment (speaker: Tatiana)
10-13 July: WorldCALL Paper presentation (research) Investigating networking practice in informal language learning communities. WorldCALL conference, Glasgow (speaker: Katerina)
June 13: Round table “Apprentissage collectifs informels en réseau : où, avec qui, comment, pourquoi ?” EPAL conference, University of Grenoble
29-30 April: Workshop on Open Educational Resources for Lifelong Learning, organised by the Joint Research Center IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological studies), Seville, Spain (speaker: Katerina)
7-8 September: Workshop on Social Media and teacher training, The French Institute, London (Attendant: Tatiana)
24 September: Conference “ICT and Social Media in Language Education“, New library building, University of Warsaw, at the framework of the celebration of the European Day of Langauges Event organized by the Polish National Agency, the European Commission and EUNIC ((European Union National Institutes for Culture) (Attendant: Katerina).
18-23 September:ECER2012, University of Cádiz. Cádiz, Spain. (Attendant: Maria)
11-13 July:3nd International PLE (Personal Learning Environments) conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal and Deakin University of Australia, Melbourne http://pleconf.org/ (Attendant: Maria).
2-4 July: EDULEARN12, 4th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Hotel Princessa Sofia, Barcelona, Spain. (Attendant: Maria).
1-2 March: kick-off meeting of the EC-funded Web2LLP project in which Web2learn ensures the smooth management. (Attendants: Katerina and Maria).
2011 events attended by our team:
21 November: “Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning”, SOMOBNET Roundtable, London, November 21th, 2011 Institute of Education, London, WLE Centre. (Attendant: Maria).
