The first HUPE Dubrovnik Branch meeting in 2023-2024 took place at Osnovna škola Blato in Blato on December 9, 2023. 

Agenda:

1. Mirta Kos – Kolobarić: An Idiom a Day Keeps Boredom Away
2. Tea Horvat: AI is here – Now What?
3. Jelica Šeparović: Better School for Better Tomorrow– Erasmus+project dissemination
4. 31st HUPE Conference report
5. HUPE News

Fourteen members attended the meeting. Five members joined us online, through HUPE Dubrovnik Teams channel. 

The first speaker was Mirta Kos-Kolobarić with her interactive and amusing workshop, presenting several ready-made ideas and quizzes you can use in the classroom to help students learn some interesting and frequent idioms. We all gladly participated in the workshop, going from station to station, using idioms and having great fun.

Tea Horvat was the second speaker. She presented some relatively new facts about artificial intelligence in her talk AI is here – Now What? She gave us some ideas for quicker lesson planning, generating responses from Chat GPTand generating AI videos, images or even presentations with various AI tools and how to use AI in education.

As a part of the Erasmus+ project Better School for Better Tomorrow dissemination, Jelica Šeparović shared her experience of a very interesting course she had attended in Helsinki in May 2023, Introduction to the Finnish Education Model. The participants of the meeting took part in a funny interactive team activity she had first used in Finland, Goosechase.

After the meeting my colleague Fanika Arnautović organized an amazing Christmas Tea Party in our school, where we had traditional cucumber sandwiches, biscuits and tea with milk, of course. Everybody was welcome to watch Christmas Carol with us and enjoy delicious food and drink.

Jelica Šeparović
HUPE Dubrovnik Branch President