The myedna professional networking service is on schedule for launch on Nov 27th as me.edu.au. The first release will allow early users to build a detailed personal profile, indicate their professional interests, and link to colleagues who have similar interests. Release 2 will give users file space to share resources and develop more communication links […]
Author Archives: John Travers
myedna final stages before launch
October 10, 2007 – 12:30 pm
The formal specifications for the first release of myedna have been signed off, and it is planned that initial user testing will begin late October, with a wider launch late in November in time for a significant birthday that is occurring at education.au.
Subscribers to this blog will be invited to join the initial testing and […]
myedna and a Web 2.0 tour
August 22, 2007 – 12:13 pm
myedna will will be firmly embedded in the growing world of Web 2.0 - that nebulous collection of tools that allow users to contribute on the web. A remarkably popular tour of Web 2.0 is The Machine is Us/ing Us, a video on YouTube that has had nearly 4 million views since January 07. The […]
myedna roadmap: and your feedback please
August 8, 2007 – 4:00 pm
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 […]
Do teachers want to talk online?
July 31, 2007 – 2:15 pm
There is evidence in the success of edna Groups to indicate that educators want to talk to each other online. Groups now has 1,000 groups with 14,000 people as members. edna Groups was started in 2005 and is growing rapidly as more people realise that the medium is a very effective way for people not […]
I know it works, but is the theory valid?
July 24, 2007 – 4:47 pm
Common sense tells us that learning is enhanced by social activity, which is the basic idea underlying the use of Web 2.0 tools. But is there educational theory to support it? Of the three dominant theories, one strongly emphasises the importance of social interaction.
The theory of Social Constructivism is well established. Vygotsky is considered […]
Anyone for a personal learning environment ?
July 10, 2007 – 12:10 pm
Myedna will be a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) - a term that is gathering lots of currency with the rise of Web2.0 tools. A PLE is an online space where one gathers all their professional ’stuff’, categorises, tags, and manipulates it, then discusses, shares and learns with others. It is based on the notion that […]
Managing your reputation
July 4, 2007 – 4:54 pm
One of the problem areas of online interactivity is that some people are downright rude, and blogs have a reputation for hosting some pretty confronting conversation. An education focused site like myedna is unlikely to be seriously bothered by this problem, but there was an interesting spin on the issue in a column in the […]
What is Web2.0? Have a play with LibraryThing
July 4, 2007 – 1:28 pm
One of the very nice things about Web2.0 is that there is a multitude of freely available tools to try out. One of the most interesting (to book-worms in particular) is LibraryThing. It is well worth a look because it illustrates most of the characteristics of good Web2.0 applications.The best way to explore it is […]
