Workshops & Webinars

Stylefit & ByteEd at the YathaKatha International Film & Literature Festival (November 2023)

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Storytelling

Guest Speakers: Suraya Dewing, Thomas Male 

Sign up for a free 30 minute workshop with our friendly Stylefit team. Pick a time that suits you and let us know what you would like to cover during your session.

Webinar: What Makes a Good Story?

Guest Speakers: Robyn Pearce, Tessa Duder, Bronwyn Elsmore

Webinar: Setting Students on Fire with Learning!

Guest Speakers: Mehwish Hasan and Nandana Ramachandran

Webinar: The Skills Students Need for Tomorrow’s World

Clear, concise communication is paramount in a digital world. AI will support and enable communication; however, producing the original message remains the domain of the human writer. Having spent decades as an educator in the tertiary sector, Michael thinks, reads and writes about education a lot. Rachel Simpson, Business NZ, passionately supports all businesses that build desperately needed skills and talents in New Zealand. 

Webinar: Teachers Influence Students For Life

Leslie Havens, E-Learning and English Leader at One Tree Hill College, is an innovative educator with strengths in pushing the boundaries of English to emphasise future-focused skills for the 21st century learner, while integrating e-learning and adaptive technologies to improve access. Quack Pirihi, activist and educator, works in various community spaces from leading suicide prevention projects, to Queer & Takatāpui governance spaces.

Online Teacher Discussion Forum: Solving Literacy (Writing) Issues for Secondary School Students

Join this eye-opening discussion with Dr. Michael Johnston from The New Zealand Initiative and Leslie Havens, English HOD at One Tree Hill College, on how we can work to improve writing skills in our Secondary School students.

Webinar: Hybrid Learning – Two Platforms, Many Cultures

Join our educators and their students to discuss how they juggle Hybrid teaching and cultural diversity.

Teacher Discussion Forum: Improving Feedback in the Hybrid Learning Environment

Following on from last month’s discussion on the teacher and student transition to hybrid learning, Shannon is back to facilitate our conversation on feedback, specifically in the hybrid learning environment. She is joined by several students who offer their perspectives on one of the most disruptive times in recent history.

Teacher Discussion Forum: Creating Confident Writers in the Digital Age

As an EdTech company we know how important it is that students leave school able to write confidently and competently. How can we ensure that students are future ready when education has been drastically disrupted by the pandemic and absenteeism? How can we ensure we develop capable, future-ready students who can write well regardless of the field they go into?

Free Webinar: Stimulating Students to Engage with Writing

Increasingly, we hear of teachers feeling pressured to keep on top of marking assessments, planning lessons and finding quality time to really focus on less engaged learners. Learn about the leading-edge approach that helps relieve some of the pressure while stimulating engagement with writing.

Free Webinar: Inspire Students to Write Fearlessly

Why do we study writing skills? What are the curriculum expectations for writing How has COVID affected student attendance, engagement and performance? What do students struggle with most when they write? How do teachers use Stylefit to assist in the classroom?

Free Workshop: Teachers, How Do You Put the Arts into STEM?

Teachers tell us that writing and creativity underlie every subject they teach. Employers and employees tell us the same about every job sector! So how come many of us still say ‘STEM’, not ‘STEAM’, and aspire to study the ‘hard’ skills without giving as much value to the ‘soft’ ones?

Free Webinar: Why a High Standard of Writing is Important in Science

Writing underlies every school subject, yet there is little support in place to teach writing for STEAM subjects. We explore this topic with accomplished editor, Donna McTavish, who has a Bachelor of Science, Physiology and Pharmacology, and spent many years training medical writers in the global scientific/medical publishing sector.