SWALLT at CALICO 2006
- by Harold Hendricks, Brigham Young University

The annual CALICO Symposium for 2006 was held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and featured one of our own SWALLT members as the keynote speaker. Keola Donaghy, Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, spoke on "The Hawaiian Language: From the Brink to the Cutting Edge" to about 250 attendees at the opening plenary session. His talk detailed how he joined with others to develop both a digital Hawaiian library and an on-line Hawaiian language course to promote the renaissance of the Hawaiian language. He has been one of the prime developers of online resources for both instructors teaching Hawaiian in the islands and students learning on their own around the world. His presentation highlighted an innovative and successful use of technology to not only teach, but to preserve and expand a language that was approaching extinction.

Other presentations by SWALLT members included:

• A pre-conference workshop by Peter and Barbara Lafford, Arizona State University, on "Digital Editing and Podcast Production."
• A pre-conference workshop by Danielle Allard and Mimi Yu: "Language Teaching with Impact using PowerPoint and Camtasia."
• Jerry W. Larson and Harold H. Hendricks: a session on "Creating an Online, Contextualized Grammar Diagnostic Exam."
• Fuqiang Zhuo (Joe) of UC Davis: a session describing the "Meta- Analysis of the Current Five-Year Research Studies in the CALICO
  Journal."

SWALLT commercial member Auralog was a busy spot in the exhibit hall.