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Category Archives: edna Groups


Setting Challenges

August 2, 2008 – 2:25 pm

Teachers, just like their students, need activities and challenges. They need the goal posts to shift just slightly so that they try something new.
That’s what I had in mind when, over on Blogging Corner in edna Groups, I set up the Blogging Corner Challenge 08 today. It will give participants in Blogging Corner a chance […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, blogs, bloggingcorner08 | Comments (1)

Digital footprint and edna

January 9, 2008 – 11:20 am

edna (education Network Australia), EdNA Online as it was then, launched Single Sign On (SSO) In December 2005. The basic idea behind SSO was to bring together in one place all times when an individual might need to log into edna, and to attach that to one unique login id and password.
The SSO service when […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, networking, web 2.0, me.edu.au, digital footprint | Comments (0)

Dealing with those multiple personas

December 22, 2007 – 10:28 am

I have just read a posting by Pru Mitchell that was a response to my earlier posting about multiple personas. Pru is concerned with managing multiple edna personas. She, like many of us, has at least two edna logins that perform different functions. They are based on different email addresses. But with the advent of […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, networking, community building, blogs, social networking, me.edu.au | Comments (1)

Web conferencing and professional development

December 4, 2007 – 12:12 pm

This morning I joined in a Japanese class where a teacher in an Adelaide suburban school was taking a class of 6 students in rural West coast school. My role was mentor/helper. We were using an instance of Live Classroom in an edna Sandpit Group. Live Classroom is a web-conferencing plug-in to Moodle which we […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, professional development, professional learning, community building, web 2.0, edna10, Live Classroom, web conferencing | Comments (0)

edna 10th birthday celebrations

November 21, 2007 – 9:42 am

On Tuesday 27 November, edna is celebrating its 10th birthday, a remarkable achievement in the online world.
edna’s 10th birthday celebrations give you a chance to celebrate with us, and experience a live event through either the Live Classroom web conferencing tool in Sandpit Groups or the 3D space Second Life.
Details are available at http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/about/pid/2040
Live Classroom
Our […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Second Life, virtual environments, edna10, Live Classroom | Comments (0)

SINs are big in edna Groups

September 12, 2007 – 12:18 pm

SINs are Special Interest Networks and, in case you are not aware of it, that is what edna Groups is all about. Pre-social networking we would probably have talked about SIGs (Special Interest Groups) but they often used only one vehicle of communication such as a bulletin board or an email discussion list.
edna Groups provides […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, Australian education, community development, networking, community building, social networking, web 2.0 | Comments (0)