The document discusses me.edu.au, a professional social networking service for Australian educators that allows them to connect, share resources and ideas, find colleagues, and develop their professional learning networks. It provides steps for setting up an account, finding people to connect with, asking questions, contributing content, and accessing updates from your professional learning network. The goal is to facilitate collaboration between educators and enhance professional learning and development.

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

2. What’s the value of a PLN?

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

6. 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 :)

9. 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

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

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

12. 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

14. 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

15. RSS feeds

16. feeds Diigo Delicious Flickr Twitter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. 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!

26. They make me smarter.

27. They make learning fun.

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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…

31. 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…

32. 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?

33. 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

34. 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

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

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

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

39. Step 6: PD home delivery 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/ Food = content Bookmarks = Resources, IWB Links Blogs = Reflections Delivery Man = reader What’s Happening on me.edu.au

40. The freshest content edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au What’s Happening?

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

42. 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

43. 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

44. search & people power edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au Looking for Never knew I wanted to find.

45. More support Look for Join> me.edu.au about http:// edna.edu.au /help About me.edu.au blog http:// me.edu.au/p/aboutme showme tag me.edu.au/public/search?q = showme email [email_address]

47. References & Links Bookshelf By: chotda http://www. flickr .com/photos/santos/27538777 Creative Commons General Attribution - Share & remix Maths By: d3 Dan http://www. flickr .com/photos/acidwashphotography/2967752733/ Beatles By: Tiago Celestino http://www. flickr .com/photos/tcelestino/2078014978 Dance By: Clearly Ambiguous http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/165316414 Monstering By: WorldIslandInfo.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/76074333@N00/318034222 Feeding By: kathrin_gaisser http://www.flickr.com/photos/26094756@N04/2927163319