2026-2027 ACADEMIC YEAR
Book Slam 2
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 | 7:00–8:00 PM Eastern Time | Online
MAALLT is excited to continue this new event format with our second Book Slam!
Building on the success of our first event, the Book Slam is a twist on our popular Tech Slam series. It brings together language educators and edtech enthusiasts for fast-paced, engaging micro-presentations (5–10 minutes) on books or podcasts that inspire new ideas at the intersection of language, education, and technology.
Whether fiction or nonfiction, print or audio, selected titles will offer fresh perspectives and practical takeaways for our field. Presenters will highlight key insights, share connections to their work, and reflect on how these resources challenge or expand our thinking about teaching, learning, and technology.
Stay tuned for updates! Be sure to follow MAALLT on Twitter (X), Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky, or join MAALLT to receive the latest updates.
2025-2026 ACADEMIC YEAR
Tech Slam 7: VR Ready to Save the World
The Mid-Atlantic Association for Language Learning Technology (MAALLT) held Tech Slam 7, “VR Ready to Save the World,” on Wednesday, April 22, 2026 (Earth Day!), from 7:00–8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
A Tech Slam is similar to a poetry slam, but instead of focusing on poetry, it features multiple 5-minute micro-presentations highlighting useful tools, practices, or strategies related to language learning technologies.
The theme of this Tech Slam focuses on how Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) can support and enhance language teaching and learning.Presenters:
Thank you to all presenters and attendees for participating in the event! Members and the event presenters can view the recording of the event by contacting us. Not yet a MAALLT member, become a MAALLT member today for free.
Stay tuned for updates! Be sure to follow MAALLT on Twitter (X), Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky, or join MAALLT to receive the latest updates.
Tech Slam 6: Latin It Up!
The Mid-Atlantic Association of Language Learning Technology (MAALLT) held Tech Slam 6, “Latin It Up!” on Thursday, October 16, 2025. This event was co-sponsored by FLAVA, the Foreign Language Association of Virginia.
A Tech Slam is like a poetry slam, but instead of focusing on music, a Tech Slam consists of multiple 5-minute micro-presentations about useful tools or practices related to language learning technologies.
In honor of our dear colleague Shirley Hall, who passed away earlier this year, the slam featured ways in which technology can be used for Latin, as well as talks about teaching, learning, or promoting languages more broadly through technology. Presenters:
Thank you to all presenters and attendees for participating in the event! Members and the event presenters can view the recording of the event by contacting us. Not yet a MAALLT member, become a MAALLT member today for free.
Our next Tech Slam event will be in the spring of 2026. Stay tuned! Be sure to follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky, or join MAALLT to receive the latest updates.
MAALLT’s First BookSlam!
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | 7:00–8:00 PM Eastern Time | Online
MAALLT was excited to introduce a brand-new event format: our first-ever BookSlam!
A twist on our popular Tech Slam series, the BookSlam brings together language educators and edtech enthusiasts for fast-paced, engaging micro-presentations (5–10 minutes) on books or podcasts that inspire new ideas at the intersection of language, education, and technology.
Whether fiction or nonfiction, print or audio, the selected titles offer fresh perspectives and practical takeaways for our field. Presenters highlighted a favorite insight, how the resource connects to their work, or how it challenges our thinking about teaching, learning, or tech.BookSlam presenters:
Thank you to all presenters and attendees for participating in the event! Members and the event presenters can view the recording of the event by contacting us. Not yet a MAALLT member, become a MAALLT member today for free.
Our next Tech Slam event will be in the fall of 2025. Stay tuned! Be sure to follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky, or join MAALLT to receive the latest updates.
2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
Beware the AI-des of March!
MAALLT held our Tech Slam 5! , “Beware the AI-des of March!” on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 7:00-8:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. A tech slam is like a poetry slam, but with 5-minute micro-presentations on tech, apps, or practices for language learning. If you have ideas of the topic for our future Tech Slams, feel free to contact us.
To give people a little breather from AI, this Tech Slam was focusing on tech tools and practices that were *not* related to AI. Presenters introduced their tool or practice and explained its benefits to learners. For this Tech Slam, our presenters focused on non-AI uses.Tech Slam 5! presenters:
Thank you to all presenters and attendees for participating in the event! Members and the event presenters can view the recording of the event by contacting us. Not yet a MAALLT member, become a MAALLT member today.New Years 2024-2025 Message
2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEARTech Slam 4.5
We wish you a great start of the school year and look forward to seeing you at MAALLT’s and IALLT’s future events!
Tech Slam 4
Tech Slam 3
IALLT 2023
2022-2023 ACADEMIC YEAR
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Thank you to those who attended and presented at our April and December MAALLT Tech Slams!
MAALLT was excited to hold its Tech Slam 2! on December 6, 2022. Thank you to all who presented and attended! A “tech slam” is like a poetry slam, but with each presenter speaking about a technology, app, solution, or technology-supported practice for language learning for 5 minutes.
Members can view the recording of the event by contacting us.
| Sonja de Vargas | New Mexico State University Alamogordo | Language Instruction with Music Videos |
| Kathryn Murphy-Judy | VCU Emerita | H5P and OER |
| Ella Alhudithi | Iowa State University | Building autonomy through interactive visual displays of language |
| Kevin Gaugler | Marist College | Remnote for Vocabulary Acquisition |
| Lauren Rosen | University of Wisconsin | Turn Your Start Module into a Smart Module |
| Joseph Borkowski | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Social Annotation of Text and Multimedia using Perusall |
| Helen Stapleton | Sewanee: University of the South | D2L’s Brightspace for Language Assignments |
| Joe Dale | Freelance | Use Immersive Reader on Websites for promoting accessibility and autonomy in the languages class |
Our first Tech Slam! took place on April 21, 2022. A special thank you to our Tech Slam! presenters:
- Comic Creation to Foster Reader Response across Genres (Peggy Semingson)
- Flipping lessons: Designs using your LMS (Lauren Rosen)
- Bringing images to life with Thinglink (Helen Stapleton)
- Learner Agency in Assessment (Lillyrose Veneziano Broccia)
- Digital Escape Rooms with the Google Suite (Caroline Schlegel/Aubrey Swisher)
- Virtual spaces for engaging hybrid learners (Umida Khikmatillaeva)
- Using a Split Screen in Zoom Language Classes (Sonja de Vargas)
- Best Practices for Organizing Virtual Field Trips (Katja Anderson)
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Here are a selection of previous events MAALLT and its members have participated in
- MAALLT gave a joint session with IALLT & SEALLT on April 2 at SCOLT 2022. Among other things, we discussed ideas for language learning technology and growing our organizations.
- MAALLT President-Elect Jeffrey Samuels contributed several interviews and articles to IALLT’s free online language technology magazine, FLTMAG, in 2021.
- MAALLT board member Errol M. O’Neill contributed a successful IALLT webinar in 2021 (live webinars are available via IALLT and free to all educators).
- MAALLT board members Amanda Romjue and Hope Fitzgerald presented sessions during the FLAVA fall 2020 conference.
- As a small organization, our priorities remain to deepen connections with partner organizations and grow an engaged membership. We have re-engaged our social media presence to increase awareness of MAALLT.