Category: Creativity

🎙️ THISISGRAEME PODCAST — EP#001: Smith Family Book Launch

May 28, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in podcast, AI & Technology, Books, Creativity, Education, Family, Legacy, Music, New Zealand, Publishing

THISISGRAEME PODCAST – EP#001: Smith Family Book Launch. First episode of the THIS•IS•GRAEME Podcast—join the Smith family as they launch new books and explore story, creativity, tech, and legacy.
Supercharge Your Writing with Free Writing Exercises: A Simple 10-Minute Daily Practice

Aug 19, 2024

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Creative writing, Creativity, Creativity Boost, Essay writing, Free writing, Improving learner writing, Overcoming Writer’s Block, Personal development, Productivity, Writing, Writing Exercises, Writing frame, Writing Techniques, Writing tips

Discover the power of free writing exercises in just 10 minutes a day! This simple, yet transformative exercise can help you boost creativity, break through writer’s block, and improve your writing skills. Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting out, free writing is the perfect tool to ignite your imagination. Learn more and watch…
Drum & Drummer – Exciting New Release from THISISGRAEME Music

May 5, 2023

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Graeme Smith

in electronic music, Create, Creative, Creative journey, creative process, Creative projects, Creativity, electronic music production, good music, Independent Artist, Independent Music, Music, Music Distribution, Music Marketing, Music Production, Music Promotion, new music, New Zealand Music, percussion, Personal Growth

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of percussion with “Drum & Drummer,” an instrumental drum and bass track that combines African rhythms with a touch of something special. Join us on this musical journey, discover the pun in the track title, and anticipate what the sequel will bring. Support independent music by following, sharing, and…
How do you write really good instructions? Lego versus Meccano

Jul 5, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, Adult Learning, Adults, Best practice, Children, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Education, Uncategorized

If you’ve read Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, you’ll know that one of the questions that Sophie receives during her mysterious philosophical journey is this: “Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world?” The writer didn’t ask why Meccano was the most ingenious toy. And clearly, the answer has to do with the…
How do you develop embedded numeracy learning outcomes that are relevant to trades tutors?

Oct 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 2.0, 2015, 21204, Activities, ako, ALEC, Area, Assessment, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Complete NCALNE, Creativity, Design, Diagnostic, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALNE, Graeme Smith, Janet Hogan, Learning Outcomes, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Measurement, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NZCALNE (Voc), Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications

Recently, we did some work around developing learning outcomes with group that had a lot of painters and plasterers in it. This is a summary of my notes relating to how, as a group, we developed a draft learning outcome for an embedded approach to some very specific numeracy skills around measurement and area. We…
Calling all Literacy Numeracy Professionals…

Aug 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Compliance, Creativity, Design, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Leadership, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Mastery, MOOC, NCALNE, New Zealand Context, Numeracy, Pathways Awarua, Productivity, Professional Development, QMS, Qualifications, Resources, Self development, Tutor, Tutor Profile, work

I’ve been turning this over in my mind for a while… I’m not sure whether there are so many opportunities for this, but having worked in such a narrow area of education since 2007 I feel that I’ve now got a fairly sharp lens through which to analyse certain kinds of training. This is particularly…
Designing embedded literacy project work for independent learning – the rough idea

Aug 6, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Creativity, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Learning Outcomes, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, Resources, Text, Vocabulary, Writing

I’ve got this idea for integrating the assessment requirements for the 10 credits worth of literacy unit standards together with highly focused topics or content in an inquiry project that learners can complete (mostly) independently. The three unit standards are: Unit Standard 26622: Write to communicate ideas for a purpose and audience (Level 1, Credits…
How to not suck at powerpoint, keynote or any slideshow? Follow this 1 rule

Jul 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Anxiety caused by learning, Assessment, Conferences, Creativity, Design, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, Facilitator, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Mastery, Personal approach, Personal development, Productivity, Professional Development

Fight against documents pretending to be powerpoint slides This is a personal peeve of mine… And I know I’m guilty of breaking this rule. However, I see such badly put together slideshows sometimes that I feel I have to take a public stand. And this is especially the case because I work in education, and…
Changing the world with literacy and numeracy: This guy’s $25 education start up is now building a new school every 90 hours

Jul 27, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Creativity, Disruption, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, Improve teaching practice, Kids, Leadership, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Meaning, Video

This is literacy and numeracy literally changing the world… the developing world. They are now building a new school every 90 hours.The reason: 250 million primary-aged children lack basic reading writing, and maths skills and these guys intend to do something about it. It takes US$25 to educate a child and US$25,000 to build an…
Arnie on how to succeed… Applies in education as well as anything

Jul 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Collaboration, Creativity, Education

Hat tip: Damon Whitten