The TiLT (Technology in Language Teaching) Forum is our ongoing event series where language instructors come together to share their experience of using technology in classroom. It's a great place to meet like-minded language teachers across departments and units at Pitt!
Upcoming forum schedule can be found on our event page.
Below is a list of current and previously-held TiLT Forum talks:
2026 Spring
- Designing Animated Storyboard Listening Activities Using Doodly by Islam Farag
- Corpus Tools for Cross-Linguistic Insights in the L2 Writing Classroom by Rosario Mengual
- Level Up Language Teaching: AI-Powered Game-Based Learning Tools for SLA by Jeyra Vargas Sarmiento
- Technology Tips and Best Practices: a Round Table
- AI Judo for the Classroom: Three Simple Steps by J. D. Wright
- Language Instruction and Generative AI at Pitt: a Report by RHLMC Working Group on GenAI
2025 Fall
- Creating Interactive Activities in Canvas with H5P by Ece Ulus
- Teachers' Lounge: the State of Gen-AI in Language Classroom
- Brisk AI Tools in Language Courses by Viktoria Batista
- Open Educational Resources for the Languages: what, how and how much! by Chiara Montera
- Practical Tech Tools for Language Classroom by Fan Fan and Yiting Cheng
2025 Spring
- Integrating Multimodal and Multilingual AI-Powered Texting into the Language Classrooms by Linh Phung
- Intercultural Learning in Telecollaboration by Jeyra V. Vargas Sarmiento
- Step-by-Step System to Building Educational Content Platforms That Work by Anna Sukhanova
- Translation and Technology: Enhancing the Translation Process by Cova Marques Fernandez
- Creating AI Chatbots for Language Teaching with Mizou by Stephen Luft
- Phonemic Awareness and Online Learning: Developing an OER for Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension by Katie Manukyan
2024 Fall
- Technology Back-to-Basics (Round Table)
- Diffit: a Teacher-Centric AI Resource for Material Creation by Haya Feig
- Promoting Collaborative Reading and Note-Taking through Perusall by Chiara Montera
- 2 Years of GenAI in Language Classroom (Teachers' Lounge)
- Let the CAT out of the bag again! (Computer-Assisted Translation) by Yiting Cheng
- Useful AI tools in Language Teaching by Jocelyn Hsieh-Meyers
2023 Fall -- 2024 Spring
- Language Instruction and Generative AI: a Report and a Discussion by RHLMC Working Group on Generative AI
- Optimizing Language Learning Experiences by Filipo Lubua
- Interactive Whiteboards in F2F and Remote Instruction by Viktoria Batista
- Audio Description in Class and Reality by Gunnel Bergstrom
- Make Beautiful Everything (Posters, Flyers, etc.) with Canva by Kenzie Eggert
- Making ICE (Interactive Content Engaging) with Genially by Kimberly Rehak
- Na-Rae Han on Generative AI in Language Classrooms
- Viktoria Batista on LearningApps
- LaShanda Lemmon leading Technology Round Table
- Olga Klimova on Hybrid Language Curricula
2022 Fall -- 2023 Spring
- Myriam Abdel-Malek on Using Infographics
- Brett Wells on Teaching French Varieties in Classroom
- Kimberly Rehak on Fostering Interaction in Asynchronous Language Teaching
- Na-Rae Han on ChatGPT Hands-on and Discussion
- Barry Johnson on Digital Recording Basics
- Viktoria Batista on Google Jamboard
- LaShanda Lemmon on Dubbing Activities for the Foreign Language Classroom