Envision a classroom where rich, compelling, fun content captivates students who effortlessly develop language skills while expanding their cultural awareness. Could these ideals become realities? This workshop proclaims: Yes! For five years as a university professor in S. Korea, I have been developing ways to infuse music into ELT. Music content is often transformative as students seamlessly enrich their cultural appreciation while concurrently improving their L2. Considering Stephen Krashen’s Compelling Input Hypothesis framework, music and movies together may provide content so compelling, some students will improve their L2 automatically, without giving conscious effort. Beyond compelling content, this workshop will introduce the most effective content delivery strategies -- including OST-centered formative tasks -- I have conducted, fully online, over the past three semesters. I will also summarize a 'History of Rock' course I taught twice, from 2017-2018. During multiple small and whole group discussions, attendee participation is highly encouraged. MYSTERY EASTER EGG

Pixton is a web-based cartoon-making site. It is used to let all levels of students make more from their writings. Low-Level students can express more with a cartoon than they can with just words and higher-level students can expand their thoughts. Pixton makes it interesting and fun for the students. In return, your students try harder, are more passionate about their writings, and learning in general.

I will show you how to use this to help advance your student's creativity and confidence in their Language abilities. As well as creating a "class" for us to play around with. My knowledge comes from practical use of the program. MYSTERY EASTER EGG

This year is the tenth anniversary of the birth of the Performance in Education (PIE) SIG of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT). The presenter, the founder of the SIG, will describe its founding, purpose, structure, highlights of its history, its present situation and its possible future. The purpose is to show that a performance in education SIG would be a valuable addition to KOTESOL. The presentation also serves as an invitation for collaborative efforts between the two language organizations and to encourage individual KOTESOL members to participate in our conferences. Popular venues have been Okinawa and Sapporo where we have annual conferences, and Kyoto, Kobe, and hot springs resort towns like Gero. There will be a Q&A session at the end. MYSTERY EASTER EGG

Acting and teaching how do they go hand in hand? How can one help the other and vice versa? Learn the pros and cons and dos and don’ts of both, from one who has been through it all. Explore how teaching can open up the door to finding your calling, and finding yourself. MYSTERY EASTER EGG

In preparation for Reel to Real Film Festival and KOTESOL National Conference 2021, Rhea Metituk, the conference chair for the event, suggested that the three of us get together to write a promotion for the film festival/conference. This started us on an amazing creative journey that ended in a short article/promotion in The English Connection and an extended version that ended up as a podcast. The presenters will introduce the short article, play the podcast, and then will share their stories of how these two projects came to be. It is a story of unbridled creativity matched with quick collaboration and technical and dramatic talent. The presentation will end with reflections on how to structure successful creative collaboration projects. A question and answer session will conclude the presentation. MYSTERY EASTER EGG

Do you know about the different shots used in film and video, such as close-up, medium shot, and wide shot? Have you tried storyboarding a video project? How about your students? Whether to spend time introducing these is an important consideration when setting a video project. Although it is often said that secondary and university-age students are already fluent in video, they may not have been introduced to these features, so this session will explore the benefits of a “focus on form” in video. As well as getting hands-on and learning about these features ourselves, we will discuss potential benefits for learners’ language use, including supporting more language use throughout project processes, and encouraging more ideas about using language in their finished videos. We will consider some possibilities for introducing these ideas, and also discuss strategies for scaffolding a project sequence to help students come alive as filmmakers. MYSTERY EASTER EGG