2024 Teacher Only Day - Other workshops

The Manaiakalani Teacher Only Day workshops were fantastic! There were so many amazing options, but we could only pick two. I wish I could have attended a few more, as they were AI create workshops.

I'm hoping to find opportunities to use those creative teaching strategies in my classroom this term, or maybe next term.

In the meantime, I'd love to hear your ideas! What tools or resources have you found effective in helping students develop their creative skills?  Check out my few picks!

2024 Teacher Only Day - Workshop#2 "Creating your Pepeha via iMovie".

This second workshop was lead by Sandy & Latini - how to create your pepeha via iMovie.  link

 This was an informative workshop - we started off with the 'Lalaga' cards, questions that were designed to 'connect' or create talanoa/korero with your learners/colleagues.

However we had an interesting talanoa/korero with our learners who don't know their whakapapa/gafa/genealogy.  Alot of the learners parents aren't aware of their genealogy, an opportunity to ask family who are still present.  

We ran out of time to utilise 'iMovie', however there is a new feature on google slides, to record yourself.  I recorded my Pepeha using my DFI visual pepeha slides.  I had to change my pepeha and include both my parents details.  As I'm Samoan, we don't have associations of river and mountains, but we have 'villages' that our parents have been raised.  I didn't include it in this recording - but will definitely include this in the next one.

2024 Term 2 Teacher Only Day

Talofa lava!

'Tautua i le alofa, manuia le lumana'i – Serve in love for a blessed future'.

is our theme for 2024. We were blessed with Panmure Bridge School's hospitality for our Teacher only Day this year. The sun was beaming on their school, unaware of the flood that had impacted some areas earlier. Their Kapa Haka group welcomed us warmly, and when finished, they formed a guard of honour for us to walk into the school hall. What a blessing!

We were honoured to have Dr Craig Hansen as our guest speaker. AI slides

He encouraged us to embrace AI and how to use it effectively in our practice.    

A couple of things that interested me:  Tokenism has a different coined as giving tokens - imagine how much money you've got.  Chat GPT 3.0 is slower & doesn't have live.  Large language models (LLMs) are a significant piece of the puzzle in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In Layman's terms:  LLMs are like super translators for computers, helping them understand us better. This lets them chat with us naturally, create new things, and even help improve AI itself!

AI sites that were recommended:  Eduaide.ai,  TeachAid, Diffit, Glasp

As AI is growing rapidly, policies are in the pipeline on it's use within our schools for Manaiakalani.  Check out my blog created through google slides.  Faafetai lava!