REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitator: Dr. Richard Medina, Associate Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction, UH Mānoa, Center for Language & Technology Date: 3/25/26, Wednesday Time: 3:00 – 4:00PM HST Two ways to participate: In-Person, Moore Hall 257, UH Mānoa Zoom (link will be provided upon registering) Description: This one-hour workshop introduces spaCy, a widely used natural language processing (NLP) library for Python, with a focus on practical applications for language research beyond English. Participants will learn how to write simple Python scripts to perform tasks such as part-of-speech tagging and basic lexical analysis, and will see demonstrations of spaCy’s ability ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitator: Bryan Keith, Media Design Specialist, UH Mānoa, CLT Date: Thursday, 2/12/26 Time: 2:00PM to 3:00PM HST Location: Moore Hall 153A, UH Mānoa Description: In this Professional Learning Session, we will explore basic design principles in order to provide participants with a more structural and intentional approach to creating educational materials.

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitator: Dr. Richard Medina, Associate Faculty Specialist in Human-Computer Interaction, UH Mānoa, Center for Language & Technology Date: 3/11/26, Wednesday Time: 3:00 – 4:00PM HST Two ways to participate: In-Person, Moore Hall 257, UH Mānoa Zoom (link will be provided upon registering) Description: YouTube comment threads provide a rich source of authentic, multilingual language data, including languages and varieties that are often underrepresented in traditional corpora. This one-hour workshop introduces practical approaches for collecting and working with YouTube comments for language research and teaching, with a focus on non-English and multilingual data. Participants will learn how ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitators: Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Associate Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology Dates: Tuesdays @ 2:00 – 3:15PM HST (75-minutes) 2/3/26: Foundations of Generative AI and Language Learning Session 2/10/26: Identifying Challenges & Designing for Your Classroom 2/17/26: Implementation and Evaluation of your Design Location: Moore Hall 257, UH Mānoa Description: AI-Assisted Design for Language Teaching is a professional development series offered by the CLT. The main purpose of this series is to introduce faculty and graduate students in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters to principles of instructional design ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitators: Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Associate Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology Dates: Tuesdays @ 2:00 – 3:15PM HST (75-minutes) 2/3/26: Foundations of Generative AI and Language Learning Session 2/10/26: Identifying Challenges & Designing for Your Classroom 2/17/26: Implementation and Evaluation of your Design Location: Moore Hall 257, UH Mānoa Description: AI-Assisted Design for Language Teaching is a professional development series offered by the CLT. The main purpose of this series is to introduce faculty and graduate students in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters to principles of instructional design ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitators: Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Associate Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology Dates: Tuesdays @ 2:00 – 3:15PM HST (75-minutes) 2/3/26: Foundations of Generative AI and Language Learning Session 2/10/26: Identifying Challenges & Designing for Your Classroom 2/17/26: Implementation and Evaluation of your Design Location: Moore Hall 257, UH Mānoa Description: AI-Assisted Design for Language Teaching is a professional development series offered by the CLT. The main purpose of this series is to introduce faculty and graduate students in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters to principles of instructional design ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitator: Bryan Keith, Media Design Specialist, UH Mānoa, CLT Date: 10/29/25, Wednesday Time: 1:00PM to 2:00PM HST Location: Moore Hall 155B, UH Mānoa Description: This Professional Learning Session will provide the foundation on which participants can build their video editing skillset. By walking through the fundamentals and describing basic principles of video editing, this workshop establishes a basis of understanding that will allow participants to feel comfortable and confident working with video. Some basic skills we’ll focus on: Importing Footage Syncing Audio and Video Cutting together Video Clips Working with Multiple Camera Angles Placing Text on ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitators: CLT Faculty, UH Mānoa Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Associate Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology We invite you to join us for this three-session professional development program designed to support CALL language faculty as they transition to the new learning management system, Lamakū, with an emphasis on language courses. The program consists of three (3) interactive sessions. Topics: 9/25: Content – Adding and organizing content and making the most of different content types. 10/2: Activities – Creating H5P learning activities in Lamakū and exploring Lumi generated activities. 10/9: Assessment/Gradebooks – Making the most ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitators: CLT Faculty, UH Mānoa Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Associate Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology We invite you to join us for this three-session professional development program designed to support CALL language faculty as they transition to the new learning management system, Lamakū, with an emphasis on language courses. The program consists of three (3) interactive sessions. Topics: 9/25: Content – Adding and organizing content and making the most of different content types. 10/2: Activities – Creating H5P learning activities in Lamakū and exploring Lumi generated activities. 10/9: Assessment/Gradebooks – Making the most ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitators: CLT Faculty, UH Mānoa Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Associate Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology We invite you to join us for this three-session professional development program designed to support CALL language faculty as they transition to the new learning management system, Lamakū, with an emphasis on language courses. The program consists of three (3) interactive sessions. Topics: 9/25: Content – Adding and organizing content and making the most of different content types. 10/2: Activities – Creating H5P learning activities in Lamakū and exploring Lumi generated activities. 10/9: Assessment/Gradebooks – Making the most ...

REGISTER HERE Facilitators: CLT Faculty, UH Mānoa Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham, Associate Faculty Specialist in Learning Design Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology This professional learning series introduces world language educators to the essential components of generative AI literacy, with a focus on responsible and ethical integration in language teaching. Participants will explore what generative AI literacy means in the context of their professional roles, drawing from existing frameworks and adapting them to the needs of language education. Through collaborative discussions, participants will co-construct the scope of generative AI literacy and examine it across multiple dimensions. The series also engages ...

REGISTER HERE (@hawaii.edu required) Facilitator: Dr. Rachel Mamiya Hernandez, Assistant Faculty Specialist in Language Technology, CLT, UH Mānoa Description: Participants who attend all sessions and successfully complete all deliverables will receive a digital badge. UH Mānoa CALL participants will also have the opportunity to apply for small project implementation support grants from the CLT. How can we design language learning that feels authentic, meaningful, and future-ready? Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) offers a framework for designing powerful, culturally contextualized learning experiences that matter to learners while creating opportunities for them to use their language to address real world needs. PBLL engages learners ...