Coming together for #eurocall2022

 

It is that time of year again when the Eurocall community comes together. For the third year running we are meeting virtually rather that being able to get together in the same physical place. As a community we love the intercultural mingling we have enjoyed in the past: sharing food and fellowship, and our dancing together is legendary. 

However, we are able to recreate some of this community building online thanks to the digital literacies we have. This post shows just what has been going on as we prepare for our annual conference and I am grateful to all those who have been connecting on the conference app Whova or on social media channels using #eurocall2022. 

Hugh Prior will be presenting on Wednesday and he has been fortunate enough to visit Iceland. He has shared his journey in our Whova app:  

Many of us are just imagining how best to reduce our impact on the #climatecrisis and we are encouraged to share our #virtualjourney using the #eurocall2022 tag:

We are going to#Iceland for our annual conference, attending virtually this year. Choose a gif or image to show us your #virtualjourney. Let's make this year a commitment to reducing #climatechange. Use #eurocall2022 tag so we can share your creativity! pic.twitter.com/NpY0VawG3m

— Eurocall (@EurocallLang) August 15, 2022

I'm  looking forward to seeing the creativity of our community reflected on our Wakelet mood board:

#eurocall2022 mood board

There are many community members active in the open and we are grateful to them for their support in expanding our community. Special mentions go to those who regularly tweet using the #eurocall tag. Here you are, we see and appreciate you:

A full archive including the sharing of digital badges we issue to our members can be viewed here. Open badges are another way we can recognise the actitivies of our members in the field of CALL (or CMC or TELL - I know the acronym debate continues in Whova!).

Another way in which we thank our community is through prizes of course. There are prizes for the photo and caption competitions in Whova as well as prizes for best poster and best student presentation...more about these in the opening ceremony on Wednesday. 

I imagine life can be pretty harsh for the Icelandic ponies in the picture above but I am sure they are better protected when they get together. So indeed are we, and how we will dance when we finally get together in the same place!