Establishing A PLN Using me.edu.au

edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au My People

What’s the value of a PLN?

My PLN provides…

Teaching ideas & lesson plans

Find interactive resources

Plan lessons together

Shared experiences

Fun and sharing jokes

Someone to talk to

They know things you might not

5 Steps

Find an online community

Tell people who you are

Find colleagues to share with

Ask questions

Contribute your own ideas

Step 1: Choosing A Community Twitter Diigo Delicious Classroom2.0 me.edu.au Blogs

What is me.edu.au edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au A professional hub or professional social networking service for Australian Educators. It allows you to connect with a wide variety of educators for many different purposes. Facebook For Teachers :)

How does work? edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

You can:

Create an online CV

Add RSS feeds

Subscribe to colleagues info

Create your own blog

Benefits for you

identity : your own space, including a blog

collaboration : find like minded people, communities to join

resources : share with others, help others

professional presence (PLE) with space to develop your profile and CV

learning : build skills, reputation, find new colleagues, ideas

video Me + Other Educators sharing their teaching resources & experiences. edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

Step 2: Tell People About Yourself Concetta Gotlieb Teacher Interested in technology Interested in music Learning about special needs Likes to share

Joining What I look like My Study Skills, philosophy Teaching interests Where I work

Getting started complete registration process at http://me. edu .au if registered with edna just login at first activation choose an i dentity/name a short id that will provide you with URL in form http://me. edu . au/p/name ** DON’T use spaces eg me. edu . au/p/pru

Edit your profile

add welcome message and check details

don’t add interests yet

save

explore some of the other tabs

Add your stuff edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au http://flickr.com/photos/26094756@N04/2927163319/sizes/l/ Your best links Writing blogs & lessons

RSS feeds

feeds Diigo Delicious Flickr Twitter

My public profile My public profile One place to share info about yourself

Step 3: Find People To Share With Concetta Gotlieb Teachers Interested in technology Interested in music Learning about special needs Lecturers

teachers edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

runners edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

music lovers edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

literacy experts edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

mathematicians edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

dancers edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

They are passionate!!! edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au They share!

They make me smarter.

They make learning fun.

Finding a colleague I just want to find someone like me … edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

Introducing… edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au Tony Searl Teacher NSW Stu Hasic Regional Support South Sydney Martin Pluss Social Science Teacher NSW

edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au Grace Katsilis Primary Teacher, NSW Fiona Banjer Primary Teacher, Brisbane Sue Wyatt Primary Teacher, Tassie Introducing…

edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au Julien Ridden Moodle, ICT Integrator NSW Jess McCulloch LOTE Teacher VIC Alison Hall Music Teacher SA Introducing…

Step 4: Ask Questions What’s the best? What’s this like? What are you doing? How do you? Have you ever? Where did you find that?

Sending messages I want to talk to someone like me … edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

What are YOU interested in? edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au NEW WAY

Joining a community

click on the communities tab

tag cloud composed from top 100 communities

VITTA2008 to join click on the tag, click on the link that says Add this to your interests

leave a message or add a link

Check what you now see in My View

Contributing edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au Links Ideas

Step 5: Contribute Your Ideas Upload a resource Make a comment Write a blog post Share a video Share a picture Share a link

Your content edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

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edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

My view tools to use in groups My view: what my colleagues are up to Diigo Delicious Flickr Twitter

Rich, personal, surprising, learning edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

When I’m looking for resources and ideas I have edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

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