JALTCALL2018 from My Angle

I attended and presented at JALTCALL2018 in June (you can find my poster here) and here are some highlights, takeaways, and thoughts (I know I should have written this blog post much earlier!):

• I was the on-site buddy at the JALTCALL2018 Virtually Connecting session. Read Teresa Mackinnon‘s blog post about the session, Supporting the Connections across Continents, here.

• My first article out of my PhD project, Are Japanese Digital Natives ready for learning english online? a preliminary case study at Osaka University, was cited by James Goddard in his presentation, Factors Influencing the Demand for Online Education/e-Learning at Higher Education Institutions in Japan.

That moment when your first article out of your #PhD project is cited! ☺️🤓🙃 #PhDchat with @ETHEjournal https://t.co/WmrCra2L5W #JALTCALL2018 pic.twitter.com/MH1AFPX9ll

— Parisa Mehran پریسا مهران ✊🏽💪🏽✌🏽🌷 (@ParisaMehran) June 10, 2018

• I attended Andrew Blyth’s workshop, How to Set up Your Own Website to Support Your Students and Career. Check HelloSpace to learn more on this topic.

• I talked to Gary Ross about how to learn to code, and here is his advice:

1. Start with creating a webpage
2. Take online courses on coding
3. Listen to Jen Simmons’s podcasts:  http://jensimmons.com/
4. Read books (I’m waiting for Gary to share his favorite books with me. I’ll add them later).

After talking to Gary, I searched and found these two websites:

https://learntocodewith.me/

https://1millionwomentotech.com/

• While I liked the interactive nature of the roundtable, The Future of Educational Technology, I found the discussion about introversion and shyness simplistic and biased. Also, linguistic imperialism was acknowledged, however, the message was: That’s the way it is. We enjoy it!