Tag: technology

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…
EdTech 101: Why I chose Pathways Awarua over Pathwright and Udemy

Jun 19, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Technology

Ok… so I changed my mind. I’ve been on a fairly steep learning curve when it comes to courseware and authoring tools for creating online learning and teaching content. A while ago I said that I was going to use Pathwright instead of Udemy to have a go a developing a FastTrack version of my…
How do I get my course online? Using Camtasia 2 and Youtube

May 21, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Camtasia 2, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Flipped, Khan Academy, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Sal Khan, Screen capture, Technology

Last week I finally did something that I’ve been procrastinating about for over a year. I got a large chunk of my NCALNE (Voc) professional development course online in the form of YouTube clips. I did it without using complicated courseware or authoring tools. This is part of my drive to open source the training…
Free Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development… Free NCALNE (Voc)

May 13, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business model generation, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Flipped, Free, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NDipALNE, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Resources, Uncategorized

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?…
Which Microphone Does Sal Kahn Use? 2 Great Recommendations

Oct 31, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Gadgets, Gear, Khan Academy, Microphone, podcast, Podcasting, Recording, Sal Khan, self-publishing, Yeti

To be honest I have no idea which mic Sal Kahn uses… However, I’ve found one that I think absolutely rocks. The Blue Yeti USB Microphone might be one of the best around Here it is. It’s the Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone – Silver. This mic seems to work well with both my Macbook…
The things we carry: What’s in the ultimate travelling educator’s technology gadget bag?

Oct 17, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, Gadget bag, Gadgets, Gear, Technology, Uncategorized

I travel around a lot with my work. I teach a level 5 qualification called the National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education, otherwise known as the NCALNE. There are two versions. The one that we teach is for trades and vocational tutors and we often deliver this training at our clients’ sites or…
Unbundling education and training for online

Sep 21, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Technology

The online world lends itself to unbundling. Unbundling is when you dismantle various aspects of a previous business model and sell them separately. Sometimes different companies and organisations can then specialise in a specific aspect of the business or industry. An example would be in telecommunications. Previously, one monolithic company might have controlled all aspects…
Flipped Classroom = Flipped Business Model for Education

Aug 27, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Uncategorized

I can’t seem to get this thought out of my head at the moment. It’s in the heading above, but to restate the case. Flipped classrooms need flipped business models for education and ed-tech. There’s lots of talk on the internet these days, at least in education circles, around the idea of the flipped classroom.…
Using Camtasia 2 with Keynote to upload training content to Youtube

Aug 14, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Khan Academy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Resources, Technology, Uncategorized, Video

I recently purchased Camtasia 2 for Mac so I could screen capture recording and upload it in various ways. My reasons for this are: To see if I can “flip” my own training model. In order to do this I first need to create a body of video style content and make it available. To…
Hacking Reading Comprehension: Part 3 – Some other special words you need positively need to know

Jul 28, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Edtech, Embed literacy and numeracy, Hacking, Literacy and Numeracy, Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, Uncategorized

Teach better now by hacking reading comprehension