myedna is a forthcoming social networking site for educators across Australia. It will be a space for educators to establish their professional identity online and to make connections with other educators. It will be added to the edna service in early 2008. The releases will be in stages [a phased approach].
The requirements of the first release of the project are complete and development has started. A basic current roadmap of releases is included below. It gives users and the project team an understanding of what is being delivered and what is planned for delivery in the future.
What next?
We will be going into further scoping and development of the myedna system, release 1.
Then we will pre-release the system to interested users for testing later this year with a production system in place by 2008.
We will keep you updated on how you can get involved by joining in on the user testing and be one of the first to use this exciting new social networking system.
Your advice is needed
We are currently working on the user interface of the new system and possible layouts. We are really interested to hear from users about what good web 2.0 websites you have used and navigated around. Let us know what you liked. For example –
- do you like the elgg system that has different categories of information and you click on the tabs that you are interested in? Or
- do you like your personal view to be different to what the public/your friends see?
Please use the Comments link below to comment or question any aspect of this update, and give any views you have about the interface questions above.
Roadmap for myedna
Release 1: Features include:
- Myprofile - my professional identity - interests and experiences
- Simple search - finding people with common interests
- MyColleagues – the group of people I keep track of
- MyNetwork – a sub-group of colleagues
- Minifeed - incoming feed of selected colleagues’ activities
- edna groups and lists – edna groups and lists I belong to
- Security/privacy – building a safe and secure online space for Australian educators
Release 2: Features include:
- Social bookmarking
- Edna-links
- Personal file space
- Content / myresources
- Mynetwork tools such as wiki/blog
- calendar
Release 3: Features include
- Feed stitcher
- Search - edna and resources
- Mobile technologies
- Themes
- Activity reporting: for the users and for administration
4 Comments
In an eportfolio environment I believe it is essential to provide a selection of publishing options: private, for friends, for everybody.
The MyEdNA service seems to be shaping up to something I would use frequently. I moderate a few EdNA groups and having a fully functioning eportfolio tool in the same area will be great. All of the features listed above sound like they’ll provide solutions for me.
I like having access to ’skins’ or themes; linking with groups; wikis and blogs; and enough upload space for many digital stories in movie format.
I am a computer literate teacher, who tried ot start a page in in the edna groups. the actual pages are so full of icons, bells and whistles that i had to give up trying to sret up my page - it was just to o time consuming to learn how!
The only thing I would ask for the new site is ‘Keep it Simple’ please.
I have been part of a really dynamic network of educators in Australia, the UK and the US and it all started through the social networking tool Twitter. see - http://twitter.com/flairandsquare/
From Twitter we found each other’s blog’s and have been sharing knowledge and resoufces at an alarming rate. What I like about Twitter is that I can pull the Twitter API Widget into my feed reader and be kept up to date with my network on the spot, it give me access to an immediate knowledge sharing network that has been extremely advantageous to my professional development. I also get share my knowledge and resources in return!
I find reading through large forums quite daunting and this little tool is succinct, you can send a short message and a link to your blog post or other online space where there is more detail. It’s a great way to tap into what you’re interested in when you have time constraints.
Thanks for all the input into the myedna new service - simple is the key. The idea we have as a project team is to keep it simple and to start with your page will be created for you as soon as you register for any of the collaborative services. There will be a range of tools but if you want a lot and to do a lot you will still need to go to groups. myedna is much more for you and I am sure even with release 1 there will be a lot for users to do and get great value from.
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