Category: Cartoon

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…
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:…
Embedding literacy and numeracy: What’s your plan?

Jun 16, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Here’a another one from the Literacy Numeracy Pro infinite content generation engine… It’s important to have a plan. If you are a trades trainer or vocational tutor you need to have a plan on how you’re going to deal with the literacy and numeracy needs of your learners. Why? Well… because the same stuff that…
11 Ways to be unremarkably average

Nov 14, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Cartoon, infographic, Uncategorized

I just found this cool website called http://zenpencils.com. I have a bit of a soft spot for illustrators and cartoonists… Anyway, this great cartoon just jumps out. It’s a quote from another guy I really like – Chris Guillebeau who has a cool blog here and a book I bought recently.

Category: Cartoon

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

The Department of Entrepreneurial Education 2.0

Embedding literacy and numeracy: What’s your plan?

11 Ways to be unremarkably average