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 [...]


A review of the evidence of the impact of digital technologies, on formal education. Includes sections on what the evidence says, and challenges for the future.


In case you’ve missed it there is a new report out “Engaging The New Influencers” from Edelman.
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In June 2009, Edelman convened 100+ professors of communication, journalism, business and pubic relations to discuss how companies and organisations effectively engage with their stake holders through social media. Here are some of the bits that I found [...]


Interesting post on the Google Blog recently: “Five million students going back to school are “going Google”.
It relates of course to the number of schools using Google apps education edition.
I love Google apps and use them to share material with all sorts of people. But this post got me uptight by its northern-hemisphere-centricness.  Come on [...]


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: [...]