Blog By Carol

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

These are my links for January 13th through February 4th:

Auckland University campus goes smoke-free | Stuff.co.nz:Students and staff at Auckland University can no longer slip outside for a quick puff.
The university has become a smoke-free campus, inside and outside, and smoking has been banned, even in areas once designated as smoking areas.
BBC News – Hi-tech [...]


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 [...]


Great article at Stuff today about Fendalton Open Air School, which has won international praise for its innovative use of technology.
The children write about what they’re doing during the day on their blog, they share photos and post video to YouTube. These feed onto the school website during the day.
Parents can comment back and the [...]


At the beginning of Feb I wrote about “8 Ways to find great edublogs“. Since then I’ve come across many more useful links so I thought I’d reorganize my original post a little to make it more user friendly for those starting to look at Edublogs. One things I forgot to say in the original [...]


I wrote last month about my upcoming presentation on “Blogging. What is it? How do you do it? What does it have to do with learning & teaching?” as part of the DEANZ Elluminate series.
I have just finished the slides (well they might be a bit different on the day) and uploaded them to slideshare:
Blogging: [...]