edna.edu.au

edna places at your fingertips Australia’s leading quality assured online resources and a collaborative network for education and training.

Resources

edna is a large repository referencing thousands of online resources for education, training and research. You can search, browse and even contribute your own education news, events and resources to the education community.

edna resources: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/resources

Organised

edna organises resources for these education sectors: Early Childhood, School, Vocational and Technical, Adult and Community and Preservice Teacher Education.

Find out more about edna sectors at: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/about/sectors

Searchable

Search edna resources by education topic such as education organisations, ICT research, international education or technical standards. edna has a standard simple, advanced and distributed search.

edna search: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/search 

Collaborate

edna helps you to collaborate with other educators in the way you want.  Keep your edna Lists discussions in your email inbox. Alternatively, use edna Groups for discussions through your web browser while connected online. Both services are free for education and training.

edna Groups: http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/

edna Lists: http://www.lists.edna.edu.au/

Contribute

edna Suggest allows you to contribute an educational event, news item, or resource. Your contribution will pass through the approval process and then be shared with the education community.

Suggest: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/suggest

Network

Through edna’s national and international networks you can search for educational organisations, alliances and institutions. With this same network, edna can assist you to find an education and training provider.

Networks: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/networks 

Toolkit

Enhance your own website with the edna Toolkit and live edna news feeds. Integrate ‘recently added resources’, or even add a custom ‘search edna’ feature.

edna is the premier online toolkit for Australian education and training. RSS, XML, HTML and even mobile feeds - whatever technology you use, there’s a good chance the edna toolkit can enhance your website.

Tool kit: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/resources/toolkit 

edna is not a Google or Yahoo! style search engine. These use computer programs to automate finding data for their databases. Everything available through edna has been quality reviewed and described by an authorised information officer at either education.au or at an affiliated education organisation. Therefore you can be confident in the quality of your search results.

edna does not actually create or store education and training resources; it describes and points to where resources can be found – providing you with a single place to find them all.

Yes. You can easily access news and resources specific to your education sector.

Resources are also categorised by topic – many of these cross all education and training sectors.

Perform a quick search in two steps:

• Type your search term in the standard search box near the top right of any edna page.
  
• Click 'GO' or press 'enter' on your keyboard.

More options include searching either just ‘edna’ or 'All' to search both edna and external repositories.

If the results aren’t quite what you want, you have two alternative ways to search - Advanced or Distributed.

Advanced search - scans metadata fields, e.g. title, subject, edna category. You have the option to search according to sector, and to specify national or international sites.

Distributed search - scans edna and all external, trusted, quality education and training repositories. You have the option to limit searches to specific repositories.

To find out more about search see: search help. 

With live news feeds you can keep up to date with the latest on any education topic. Typically, these provide a short title, a basic description, a link to the original resource..

These news feeds are also available as RSS or even XML feeds. Some web browsers support news feeds in the browser. Alternatively, there are dedicated news feed programs which you can install on your computer.

To find out more visit the RSS help information.

Experiment, and see how much time you can save by having the latest information delivered automatically to your computer.

You can join discussions via email with other people who share your interest. With edna Lists you simply send a message to a single email address – edna Lists will automatically forward it to all list members.

This service allows you to manage and organise discussions through your email inbox. Therefore you will always have the discussions whether you are online or not.

Messages, members and membership are organised by edna Lists services. You can create and manage your own list. Simply fill in the request form to get started.

At the present time there are over 750 email lists covering a large variety of topics such as ‘academic participation’ to ‘schooling community networks’ to ‘youth studies’.

Yes – with the free service edna Groups you can communicate and collaborate with fellow educators.

Access all your group’s discussion on one system through a web browser anywhere, anytime - as long as you are connected to the internet.

Some advantages of edna Groups include:

• you can manage it yourself or delegate managing to one or a number of people,
• make your group open to everyone (public) or restrict access only to people you want involved (private).

Yes! edna runs workshops to help you get the most out of its services. Visit the workshop help to find out more about the formal workshops that are conducted every year free face to face around Australia. edna also attends many conferences and events.

You need to register for edna Lists and edna Groups services so you can collaborate. All edna website services are free. Find the registration link at top right of the edna homepage.

Once registered, you can access all edna services.

Note: you will need to login when you first start your web browser and then point it to an edna service.

Yes - enhance your own website or digital service with live news feeds such as latest news, or recently added resources, or even add a custom search edna feature.

This online toolkit provides you with RSS, XML, HTML and even mobile news feeds. Whatever the technology you use, there’s a good chance that an edna tool can help.

The toolkit helps you to customise precisely the way you tap into edna repository:

• The feed converter automatically generates the HTML and JavaScript that you copy and paste into your own web pages.
• The RSS news feeds provide the latest news and resources in XML and HTML format.
• Search results generators provide your website and your visitors with edna's powerful search features.
• Simplify complex edna URLs with the easyurl generator.

Suggest your news, site or event to edna. The edna suggest process will help you prepare your contribution for any audience.

All edna news, site and events go through a quality assurance process before being approved and published.

The edna website allows you to increase text size and has a high contrast option.  The site follows  XHTML 1 transitional and Priority 1 WAI accessibility standards.  These choices assist you to customise the edna website through your web browser to match your accessibility needs.

Visit the accessibility information on the edna website for further information. 

• Themes [School Education sector]

Theme pages are designed to present teachers and students with a creative collection of resources that highlight topical issues or national / international theme days, weeks or years.

Behind these themes are simply creative edna searches and rss feeds.  You can create your own. Check them out at Themes: http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/school_theme_pages

• Mobile edna

Do you use your mobile phone or PDA to read news? Well you can keep up to date with the latest education news.

Education news
http://mobile.edna.edu.au/