If you went to the PanSIG Conference in Kyoto this weekend, what was good? What was Bad? What got you thinking? What was a waste of time? What are you going to start using in your classes?
So one of the most interesting things that I saw on Saturday was a talk by Yosuke Ogawa about tapped language. He argues that tapped language should be considered a new domain of language because it has a unique set of features that are neither speaking, writing, or typed (as in email, etc.). It was very well thought out and very well done.
First time at one of those things and went alone. Presentations were interesting. Participating in the sigs was the best for networking. Saw an interesting phonics presentation which was good. Besides that lots of good tasks and projects based learning presentations were interesting.
I thought it was excellent – the presentations (OK, maybe a bit ChatGPT heavy), the location, the organization, the company. I particularly enjoyed the SIG forum I attended.
… I could have done without the pouring rain, though.
I thought it was quite good. Unlike JALT national, there was a welcomed lack of criticism. I feel like every national conference presentation there is always one or two people in the audience that criticize or nitpick or come in with something extremely irrelevant. But this conference everyone was very welcoming and inquisitive.
Maybe because it is PanSIG, but I feel like there are A LOT of DEI presentations. Everyone under the age of 50 seems to be doing some sort of DEI research. And it’s great to have DEI representation, but it’s a bit too much. Or maybe that was just my perception.
The location was a bit far out, but it wasn’t hard to find and a beautiful campus.
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So one of the most interesting things that I saw on Saturday was a talk by Yosuke Ogawa about tapped language. He argues that tapped language should be considered a new domain of language because it has a unique set of features that are neither speaking, writing, or typed (as in email, etc.). It was very well thought out and very well done.
First time at one of those things and went alone. Presentations were interesting. Participating in the sigs was the best for networking. Saw an interesting phonics presentation which was good. Besides that lots of good tasks and projects based learning presentations were interesting.
I thought it was excellent – the presentations (OK, maybe a bit ChatGPT heavy), the location, the organization, the company. I particularly enjoyed the SIG forum I attended.
… I could have done without the pouring rain, though.
I thought it was quite good. Unlike JALT national, there was a welcomed lack of criticism. I feel like every national conference presentation there is always one or two people in the audience that criticize or nitpick or come in with something extremely irrelevant. But this conference everyone was very welcoming and inquisitive.
Maybe because it is PanSIG, but I feel like there are A LOT of DEI presentations. Everyone under the age of 50 seems to be doing some sort of DEI research. And it’s great to have DEI representation, but it’s a bit too much. Or maybe that was just my perception.
The location was a bit far out, but it wasn’t hard to find and a beautiful campus.