Category: online

How can I use Zoom for teaching online during the lockdown but make it more interactive? 9 instantly achievable ideas

Apr 16, 2020

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Adult Learning, Anxiety caused by learning, Autonomous learning, Coronavirus, COVID, Education delivery model, Education resources, Executive Education, Foundation Learning, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, Learn anything, learner, Learner Centred, Learner success, Learners, Learning, Learning Outcomes, learning plans, Learning Progressions, Learning Strategies, online, Online learning, Pandemic, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach better, Zoom

Have you been wondering how you can use Zoom for teaching during the lockdown? So have I. Here are some of the things that I’ve used that work.
Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Antifragile, business, Business improvement, Business model generation, Conference, Conferences, consulting, Corporate, crushing it, Customer Service, data driven, Design, Design Principles, Development, Disrupt, Disruption, Ed, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, Emergent, entrepreneur, Experiment, Export Education, Good Design, Good ideas, Graeme, Graeme Smith, Hacking, Hacks, Hand, I want a new job, I want to work in, innovation, International education, Just do it, Leadership, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Measurement, Minimum viable, MVP, online, Practitioners, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Software, Solution, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Technology, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur, Transforming, Trend, Trends, Understand more, use data, using data, UX

I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…
How Can I Improve My Writing? Use the Hemingway App

Aug 19, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, App, Approaches, Gear, Graeme Smith, Hemingway, How to improve, Improving learner writing, Literacy, online, tools, Writing, Writing frame

How can you improve your writing? What are some great online tools you can use to improve your writing? Use the Hemingway App…!
UX + ED: Where does web-based user-experience (UX) design meet instructional design (ED)?

Nov 6, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Learning, online, UX

I work in education… but I’m interested in user experiences online. In fact, I’d love to do some work relating to more web-based user experience design. User experience, or UX for short, is basically about the flow of a website. In fact, strictly speaking a UX specialist only cares about how a site functions, the flow of…
MOOC 2.0 – What could Salman Khan do to make online learning even better?

Sep 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 2.0, ALEC, Edtech, Education, embedded, embedding, imrpove, Kha, Khan Academy, make better, MOOC, MOOC 2.0, Numeracy, NZ, online, Pathways Awarua, Salman Khan

You’ve got to be careful looking for photos of Sal Khan online… There’s a Bollywood star by the same name so it could get confusing… Anyway: Back to this riff about how to improve online learning and in particular MOOCs. A MOOC is a Massively Open Online Course if you don’t know, and has become…