The WIP Hui 2020

This weekend was the first 'The WIP Hui' held in Napier, New Zealand. The WIP Hui was formed by 6 like minded educators that want to help others to connect, share and disrupt education. We found that at conferences it can be a real hit and miss opportunity, with lots of the learning being done by talking or having smaller connections and conversations with others. So we thought why not make our own unconference hui to help us share and connect with others. 

So we came together, got started and formed a plan! And that is what we have - The WIP Hui. WIP stands for work in progress; like all teachers are doing, always working on growing/learning as professions. 

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The day started off with Smackdowns. 
These are quick snippet ideas that teachers love, use, are passionate about and want to share with others. Loads of tools that you can use for free in your classroom. 

Check out the link here to see what you can use!

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This then led to the first round of workshops! Three educators shared their ideas about topics they are passionate about. We voted on ones that we were interested in and those educators got the floor. 

Racheal shared her ideas on how to unleash your frizzle - student inquiry ideas to help hook students into learning. 

Karla shared her experience on Classcraft and how she explores and uses that in her classroom. 

Find more here

Rachel shared how to help get your sh*t together. She highlighted Google keep and how this can help keep you organised and onto it in life. 

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We then had some more smackdowns and an open sharing time. These were really interesting to hear what others were doing in the classroom. 
Some of the ideas shared were:

• Arabella's Adventures sites.google.com/view/arabellasadventures
• An integrated financial literacy programme - Karla shared some ideas on how she creates her classroom with a financial literacy programme. Students have jobs and use the income to pay for things in the classroom. 
• Posing questions from Sue around how do others integrate curriculum areas into the classroom? In terms of overall integration into classrooms not segregated reading, writing and maths. 
• MakerEd NZ shared the awesome breakouts and maker challenges that you can do in the classroom. These are free to use and made by Michael Davidson. Check out these ideas here. 
• Laura Butler shared her amazing website and Google Innovator project - learning with machines. This is all about AI and how to use AI products in your classroom easily and effectively. 

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Day 1 was a great success and I am so happy that people are full of ideas, tips and tricks to take away to their classrooms. Tomorrow will bring about more new ideas, with 3 more workshops and a design thinking session!