Category: Business improvement

Playing The Email Game is Helping me Clear Emails Faster and get to ZERO inbox

Nov 18, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, email, Games, Personal development, Productivity, Self development, work

I discovered this cool app. It’s called The Email Game and it’s free. It’s helping me get my mailbox under control and often to ZERO INBOX which is kind of like the holy grail for me. It only works with Gmail and Google Apps… which means perhaps you should consider switching away from Outlook if…
ALEC Showcase 2 min pitch: selling our literacy and numeracy infrastructure to the world

Oct 3, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, International education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Jokes, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, work

I’m going to a business development thing tonight. I’ve got a 2 min slot to promote my work moving forward. Here’s my draft. Comments welcome…! —————————————————————————————- Kia ora Tatau Graeme Smith here from ALEC. I work in the least funny profession in the world. This is the field of literacy and numeracy professional development. It’s…
Exporting the NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy

Sep 6, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Business model generation, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, International education, Khan Academy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, National register, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZQA, Professional Development, Qualifications, TEC, Tutor Profile

I’ve been excited about this before… Usually, my elation is crushed by some annoying practical reality of funding or compliance. However, a new set of draft NZQA rules may make it possible for us to export NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy. I think there is a market for it, especially…
How do you consume news and music? And what does this mean for education?

Jul 10, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Technology

It’s worth thinking about… Just consider how you consume the following: News and other things that used to be traditional print media. Music We used to just buy newspapers, book, and CDs. Now though we have a whole bunch of different ways that we can consume things like news, novels, and music. Why would I…
The Department of Entrepreneurial Education 2.0

Jul 9, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Cartoon, Creativity, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Online learning, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Software, Technology, Tutor, Tutor Profile

This was the title slide from my recent talk at the NCLANA Symposium on Literacy and Numeracy. It represents a question in my mind: Why aren’t we teaching educators to be entrepreneurs? The idea is blatantly stolen from Jeff Jarvis’s Department of Entrepreneurial Journalism at New York City University. His idea is roughly as follows:…
How to fix the clunky design of the NZQA Annual Fees Return Form AF01

Jun 11, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Compliance, Design, NZQA

If you are tertiary training provider in New Zealand you have to complete various compliance exercises each year to maintain registration with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. While I’m generally happy with my interactions with the NZQA. I do think however, that the AF01 form is horribly clunky, needs to urgently change and I’d like…
The Department of Entrepreneurial Education: Business Model Innovation for Literacy and Numeracy Professionals

Mar 27, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Conferences, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Flipped, Lean, Lean education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, Technology, Uncategorized

The guy in the photo – Hugh MacLeod – is one of my inspirations. You can buy the print or shirt here. If you can’t read the text, it says: “I’m not delusional I’m an entrepreneur”. Anyways… Abstracts are due this week for the LN Symposium run by the National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy…
Would you rent your professional development and training?

Mar 7, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Literacy and Numeracy, National register, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NDipALNE, Online assessment, Online learning, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, SMART Taupo

Just thinking out loud here… Would tutors, trainers, and organisations purchase low-priced, but ongoing subscriptions to gain access to professional development and training. This is as opposed to paying out a big lump sum payment upfront like standard course fees. And I’m thinking mainly of digitally delivered online education. This is a bit of a…
Using Lucidchart for process mapping in our education organisation

Jan 31, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Process mapping, Productivity, SMART Taupo, Software, Uncategorized

We’ve just started using a new software application as part of our drive to do everything in the cloud. We recently signed up for Google Apps for Business and shifted our emails into the Google Mail system, are integrating Google Drive for cloud-based storage and we’re starting to play with some of the other applications…
#edtechbizdev

Jan 22, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Personal development, Professional Development, Self development, Technology

Here’s a broad and largely unsupported generalisation for 2013 moving forward: All education businesses (whether for profit or not) are now education technology businesses. Whether we (or they) like it or not. Here’s another one: Because most teachers and trainers spend most of their time doing the busy work of teaching and training they don’t…