AI Salsa Slam

I signed myself up to attend the AI Salsa Slam. I wasn't sure with the time differences if I would get to watch it live. But thought I could always go back and watch the recording. To my surprise it started at 9am NZ time and with my school away at a noho marae I was home and able to join the Slam live. I was so great to recognise so many of the names from ISTE. The 1 minute introductions gave you a good insight into what where the most valuable parts of some of the AI tools. A couple I want to look at further in detail are mirror talk for feedback and reflection. We got a free year subcription to the tool. Websim for creating web sites. Look at the AI apps in Canva mockups, cartonifs, image to frame. Claude AI using chatbots to create games and video games using artifact window. Eric Curts has a video on how to do this. TeachAid had countires curriculums on it including the NZcurriculum to plan lessons using our own curriculum. The Slam was quick and it was fast. But best of all they where giving away lots of swag and Tshirts and I was lucky enough to win a swag of lots of goodies. Can't wait for them to arrive from the states. Having joined lots of email lists form ISTE I get lots of invites to all of these wonderfull courses and resources. Looking forward to the next one.

 

The 5th Te Hiku Film Festival

We have just completed our 5th Te Hiku Film Festival at the Te Ahu cinema on Wednesday 11 September. There were 14 movies from 8 of our 9 schools. Pukenui, our brand new school to the cluster came down and watched the movies and will enter some next year. The movies this year had some juniors shown at the cinema and what an outstanding hit they were. This year I was lucky enough to have Natalie Samson from REAP support me on the day and also be the judge. She comes with a very extensive background in movie making, TV producing and educating others in the movie and TV roles. To spice up the event this year I created a photo frame and got some prompts and had a photo booth which was very popular. We also had the red carpet which adds the effect of a special event.

The students were there with the usual buzz and excitement of seeing themselves on the big screen. This is what makes all the organisation and hard work worthwhile.

This year Dave Winters also visited and sat in one one of the sittings. It was nice to have him visit the Far North.