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 [...]


I spent the afternoon at Pukehou School again today.
I had the pleasure of working with AJ’s class, where we installed Picasa on all the class laptops. I demonstrated how it worked and the class had a great time experimenting with all the options.
A number of things struck me about the afternoon:

although some of the class [...]


Learning new skills

Today I had my very first go in a kayak in calm waters just south of Coromandel. You’ll have to take my word for it but that is me in the photo.
I get sea sick quite easily (even on the Devonport Ferry if the weather is a bit rough) so you can imagine the conditions [...]