Manaiakalani Film Festival

This year was our very first Manaiakalani Film Festival. It was a huge success. So much organinsing and planning went into this event, from behind the scene planning with the Manaiakalani facilitators, Te Ahu, Harley Alexandra, but also at the school level. Buying equipment, planning the movies, organising groups to film, etc, etc.

I would like to thank all those that made this possible!

The students had a fabulous time and felt like celebs walking along the red carpet, entering to view their film on the big screen.

Please view the film's that my class made to be shown at Te Ahu on our class blog.

Manaiakalani Share Staff Meeting

Today's staff meeting was about the Share component of "Learn, Create, Share". We discussed the different ways in which we share on a daily basis, and that this is part of our daily lives. We share without even thinking about it. Share can happen with individuals, small groups, large crowds or to the whole world. Sometimes what we share can be personal or professional, and this would look different depending on where you are, and who you might be sharing with.

We also discussed how sharing can significantly increase the student's writing ability.

Here are we sharing ways we share:

On a side note, I love the idea of the e-mail that can be sent straight to your blog. I have set this up ready for my class. I'm hoping that amazing work can be shared directly onto our class blog by the students. I'm really excited about this.