Stylefit's First newsletter

Stylefit's Newsletter

Kia Ora,

It's an exciting day for our team at Stylefit, as we are officially launching our digital newsletter today! To those who have been with us?since the beginning of our journey, thank you for your on-going support and participation. To all those who have joined the Stylefit family more recently, perhaps during our 2021 National Student Lockdown Writing Competition or our?1-month free trial offer?- welcome!

We look forward to growing this beautiful innovative community, inviting you all to our continuing webinars to share?and discuss?important topics and challenges in education?today, and keeping you up-to-date on upcoming opportunities to do with improving students'?writing skills!

We'll try to keep these short?and cheerful, which we know teachers will appreciate!

So, some things to look forward to over the next few months...

Student Writing Competition

Open for participation enquiries and entry submissions

We loved holding last year's lockdown writing competition, and collaborating with our incredible judges and prize sponsors?to deliver students a fun opportunity amidst our?national lockdowns. It was wonderful to see the enjoyment shared by both students and teachers throughout last year's competition!

We?hope we can achieve that once more with out 2022 NZ student writing competition! It's?now up and running, so we invite class groups or individual students to participate!

Our two biggest goals are:

- show?students that writing (and learning writing skills) can be fun

- improve students' writing skills by increasing confidence, self-direction and?agency

Those participating?(as a school, class or you even just a few keen individual students) will have the opportunity to craft their entries?with the help of our writing skills tool, Stylefit. We loved hearing about our participating schools' experiences with the software during the 2021 writing competition - here's a video snippet on student motivation!

If you'd like to participate, get in touch with [email protected]. We'll either extend your current Stylefit licence?or open up a trial version for the duration of the competition. You can also find out more about how it works by booking a demo or having a look at the feedback features here.

Online Discussion Forum for Teachers

Wednesday 15th June, 7.30pm (NZST)

Following on from our webinars on EdTech, hybrid learning, interactivity and engagement, we have organised an online discussion forum to take place?on Wednesday 15th June, 7.30pm (NZST).

We will be welcoming back Shannon Nelson, Technology Faculty Lead and English Teacher at One Tree Hill College. Shannon presented in Part 1 of our webinar series EdTech: Education's Secret Weapon, and will be?facilitating the discussion. We will also welcome?two students who will speak about their experiences of Hybrid Learning.

Registration is free, so come along,?share ideas, and join a group of inspiring educators working to resolve today's challenges for teaching and learning. We'll also discuss what education technology companies can do to better assist the teacher and student.

Get your ticket here!

Well, that's a wrap on our first digital newsletter! Thanks for reading through to the end. We hope you'll join us at our upcoming discussion event and share word of our writing competition (we promise the prizes are delightful)!

For any queries or information, don't hesitate to get in touch via [email protected].?You can also join?our friendly Facebook community right here!

Warm wishes,

Anna

The Stylefit Team