Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Online network for Australian educators

For some time the Australian governments funded Edna service has been providing online resources for Australian educators, including ones on how to do online education. They have now added facilities for educators to create their own professional profile, do a blog and have online discussions with others. I have been trying out the beta version for a few weeks, and while limited in function, it works well. Recommended: http://me.edu.au/.

My profile is at: <https://me.edu.au/p/tworthington>.

From "About me.edu.au":

me.edu.au ~ professional network for educators

me.edu.au provides Australian education and training professionals with an online networking and profile space.

Use me.edu.au to:

  • create an online professional profile
  • connect with educators who have similar interests
  • share links, news, photos, ideas, opinions

The first release provides:

  • my profile
  • my interests which then create and connects you with others with similar interests
  • my colleagues
  • display of membership of edna Groups
  • external rss feeds - show external online activity - show your colleagues what you have been doing online
  • activity summary.

The next major release due in late May / early June 2008, will include:

  • a blog
  • smarter search technology to find users, comments and communities
  • content space within profile (about me which displays in your my view)
  • feed of search results from edna to the communities of interest.

For more information about the me.edu service or help getting started click on the links below.

Help links for me.edu.au

From: About me.edu.au, 2008

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