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Carol Cooper-Taylor's Eclectic musings on eTeaching and eLearning, and other things catching her attention.

This week’s tweets from KiwiCarol

I'm facilitating a workshop at Auckland Uni on Twitter. Pls tweet me NOW #
RT @heyjudeonline 7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave | EDUCAUSE http://ow.ly/yqA6 #
Great 2 days @ Auckland Uni doing social networking workshops #
I've got my Wave invite – Yeah!!!! #
Where would you recommend starting recording pod casts for use with slideshare? [...]


These are the slides from a workshop I did at Auckland University recently.
Teaching With Twitter
View more presentations from Carol Cooper-Taylor.
It has also been translated into Italian by Caterina Policaro. Grazie.


This week’s tweets from KiwiCarol

Google maps become more readable http://bit.ly/78KTY #
RT @tweetmeme How Does This Share http://retwt.me/1tcV1 another great post from @chrisbrogan #
Internet set to have URIs in Asian, Arabic or other scripts http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8326241.stm #
Great example of using social media to get your homework done http://bit.ly/1DrqNf #
Facebook memorials for deceased users. Tacky or not? Im sitting on [...]


Learn Trends 2009

This conference was great last year. I even managed to make a new contact right on my door step.
The theme/focus for the conference this year is Convergence in Workplace Learning.
To register, you must first register on the LearnTrends community and then register on the Conference Event Page.
The conference will also include the [...]


This week’s tweets from KiwiCarol

So how do you get a Google Wave account???????? #
Anyone want to invite me to Google Wave? #
Broadband in a backpack for use after disasters. So now we have food, shelter, medical aid and broadband http://tinyurl.com/yl3tjsj #
Twitter messages to be indexed by Google & Microsoft http://bit.ly/4xa4lS #
Twitter Contest – Free Copy of Digital [...]


This week’s tweets from KiwiCarol

Working with faculty again today on instructional design. #
When saving images include the dimensions in the file name imagename-150×200.jpg Easier to see what size it is when looking a list of file #
Don't use blocks of italic or bold text – difficult for visually impaired/dyslexic. Instead use table with coloured background for emphasis #
How NOT [...]


This week’s tweets from KiwiCarol

How to keep tabs on your boss with Twitter http://bit.ly/cFBNM #
RT @tweetmeme More Email Management Tips http://retwt.me/BocK #
Energy-from-waste powers US army http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8290130.stm #
How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr http://tinyurl.com/yjr5mvn #
New blog post: How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs #
193 readers on my blog. Inching closer to that 2000. Can I make [...]


The new Horizon Report is out.
Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R. , Smythe, T., & Stone, S. (2009).
The Horizon Report: 2009 Australia–New Zealand Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
Here is my take. My comments in italics
For those of you new to this report, “The New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project is an ongoing research project [...]


How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs

I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of spam in my blog comments. In fact only 0.15% are legitimate. Yes the decimal point is in the right place.

Most of the spam is just the usual plethora of smut. But a small group of perpetrators are getting through the traps I have set [...]


This page is part of the “How to teach with …” series, and may get updated from time to time. I’ll tweet when it has been updated.

As a teacher

what do you need to know about Twitter,
how do you use it,
why is its useful for learning and teaching,
When and where do you tweet?

What you need to [...]


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