SIG MEETINGS

1.  CORPUSCALL 

09.09.2010  

14.00 - 15.30

Acting chair: Alex Boulton 

Items of agenda:

The CorpusCALL SIG will be meeting at the Eurocall conference this year. The main item on the agenda will be electing new officers to the posts of Chair and Secretary, followed by brainstorming of ideas to help these people inject a new dynamism to the group. Proposals for short interventions are welcome on other topics.

2.  Virtual Worlds SIG

11.09.2010

11.15 - 12.30

Chair: Graham Davies

Items of agenda:

Report on our activities in 2009-2010 within Second Life and the VW SIG Ning.

Call for suggestions for future activities.

3. NLP SIG

09.09.2010

15.30 – 17.00

Chair: C.Tschichold

Items of agenda:

The main points for the agenda will be the SIG's activities and what is happening in NLP that is relevant to the SIG.

4. Teacher Education SIG

11.09.2010

14.00 – 15.30

Chairs: Mirjam Hauck and Nicholas Guichon

Items of agenda:

We will present a summary of the research workshop held in Lyon in May and talk about the call for papers for the special issue of the ReCALL journal that resulted from it. We will also decide whether we should run a similar/totally different event in the run up to EUROCALL 2011 in Nottingham. Alternatively we will consider a one day pre-conference event for 2011 in Nottingham.

5. Computer Mediated Communication SIG

10.09.2010

15.30 - 17.00

Chairs: Robert O’Dowd and Melinda Dooly

Items of agenda: 

Election of new chair and secretary. Discussion of possible SIG initiatives for 2010-2011 including a proposal for an Intensive Programme within the Lifelong Learning Framework. We are also hoping to organise a regional workshop and are looking for interested organisers.