Webinars
We have offered webinars to share with teachers and researchers ways to navigate the MACAWS online interface as well as how to use the data for teaching purposes. On this page you find information about webinars, recorded sessions, and materials used in each event.
If you're interested in short videos on specific topics, such as "culture", "genre" and "lexico-grammar", access out asynchronous webinar series with examples for both Russian and Portuguese classes: Asynchronous MACAWS Webinar, sponsored by The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL).
iDDL Teaching Demo: Describing Housing in a Second-Year Russian Language Course
September, 2022
In the summer of 2022, the MACAWS team developed a teaching demo showcasing the implementation of iDDL in the language classroom. This demo provides lesson objectives as well as a detailed lesson plan with warm-up, iDDL, and follow-up activities. Furthermore, it explains step-by-step how iDDL activites can be introduced and carried out in the classroom using clips from a recorded language class.
In this video, you will learn how to use our corpus-based activities in your classroom using a MACAWS corpus-based activity developed for a second-year Russian course.
You can find the iDDL activity on verbs of position demonstrated in this video here:
Soaring Higher with MACAWS: Integrating iDDL with Other Web Applications to Enhance Language Learning
June, 2021
Information on CERCLL's Page: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/macawswebinar2021/
Participants in this free and live webinar explored the Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments – Writing and Speech (MACAWS). Following the premise that language is highly patterned, participants learned how to create digital pedagogical materials using interactive Data-driven Learning (iDDL) to inductively guide students to discover language patterns. Participants were guided through a hands-on experience on how to embed MACAWS searches to their activities and how to integrate iDDL with other available technologies, such as forms, websites, and collaborative boards. The recording, available on Youtube, is also embedded below:
The activities introduced in this workshop are available in the following links:
Taking Flight with MACAWS: Learner Corpus Data from and into the Classroom
May, 2020
Information on CERCLL's Page: https://cercll.arizona.edu/event/webinar-macaws/
On May 18, 2020, the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) hosted a webinar presented by our MACAWS team: Mariana Centanin Bertho, Aleksey Novikov, Adriana Picoral, Bruna Sommer-Farias, and Shelley Staples.
During this webinar, our participants learned to:
navigate MACAWS for linguistic and/or rhetorical features relevant to their teaching context;
implement Data-driven Learning (DDL) principles for inductive learning;
develop iDDL pedagogical materials for their instructional contexts.
We had a great time sharing materials and discussing affordances of MACAWS and iDDL with 148 participants from 50 institutions! Thank you for all who participated!
We are grateful for the support CERCLL has provided to our project. MACAWS was funded first by a CERCLL Faculty Fellow Research grant, and subsequently by CERCLL’s Title VI Language Resource Center grant and the University of Arizona’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.