Category: Business model generation

Cool blogs I read from time to time: Altucher Confidential, Gapingvoid, Austin Kleon

Mar 24, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Cartoon, Creativity, Disruption, Economy, Education, Personal development, Productivity, Self development, work, Writing

Procrastinate much…? Here are some of my internet heroes and favourite places to waste time reading: James Altucher’s Altucher Confidential: This guy is one of my favourite internet characters. He’s really smart, has a great sense of humour, and has failed at just about everything you can fail at in business. He’s also just started a…
New Zealand Diploma of Adult Literacy & Numeracy (NZDipALN): The ALEC Model

Mar 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Once again… I’ve started work on the Diploma. This is like about the 5th time I’ve had a go at writing this thing and hopefully, this time I’ll finish it. Actually, this time it should be more of a collaboration, but more on that in a future post. What I wanted to establish here is…
ALEC Showcase 2 min pitch: selling our literacy and numeracy infrastructure to the world

Oct 3, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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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

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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:…
Free Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development… Free NCALNE (Voc)

May 13, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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What if you could get the same training on embedded literacy and numeracy that our paid-up NCALNE (Voc) candidates get… but for free? What if you could know everything that our graduates know… for free? What if you could access all of the same lectures, slides, handouts, and resources that our students get… for free?…
The Department of Entrepreneurial Education: Business Model Innovation for Literacy and Numeracy Professionals

Mar 27, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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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…
What do I need to do next to transform my professional development course into something with wider appeal?

Nov 14, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Literacy and Numeracy, Uncategorized

I work in what is possibly the most boring profession in the world. This is not just the world of adult literacy and numeracy education, but adult literacy and numeracy professional development. Need I say more… Ok, great… you’re still reading. Actually, I’ve given up explaining to people what I do. To avoid the glazed…