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Register and login to get started.

Once you have registered you automatically get a space of your own.  Information that you entered when you register will filter to your profile page. You can also access other edna services such as edna groups and lists.

Note: if you are a current edna registered user you will not have to re-register, just update your profile.

Fill out your profile with your photo and interests, your work and education history, your professional associations and more. This can be changed and updated at anytime.  You can set preferences of who sees what information.  Some information can be public and other information just for your Colleagues or no one (private).

To edit your profile, click Edit below your basic information. Or use the Edit your profile in the menu bar.

To see all of your profile information, click View all. 

The Profile display is one of your main ways to connect with others. If Marg clicks 'School Sector' she will see all those who have also set this as their field. Similarly 'Web 2' will take her to that Community of Interest.   

What's on your profile?

Your profile contains your professional information such as work, education and recent activity, and your Interests. You can post messages to your Colleagues.  It also tracks your activity within me.edu.au and displays your edna Groups membership.

You can also add your feeds that track your online activity.  See 'adding feeds to your profile' for further information.

Editing your profile

There are six categories in your Profile from Basic Information to more detail about your Employment and Education. You can add some of this material immediately. Other parts you may like to return to later after you have browsed other members of the me.edu.au community. 

Adding feeds to your profile

What are RSS feeds? RSS feeds are new feeds that alert you to updated content on websites. Many news-related sites, blogs, photo sharing sites and other websites provide RSS feeds to anyone who wants to subscribe.   

Feeds are a summary of new entries to your web sites that you select to share with others. On your blog, or social bookmarking site there is usually an RSS feed available. Click on the RSS image  next to the page address, which will take you to the feed address for the page. Copy the address. (See the 'cegsa delicious' address below that includes 'rss'.) Paste this in to the url window on the Feeds page in the 'edit your profile' and add a title. 

Create and organise RSS feeds from your own activity on the web - your photos, links and blogs to share with your colleagues - grow and learn together. 

The information that summarises your activity will then be shown on your Public Profile in the centre panel, keeping other members and in particular, your colleagues, up to date with what you have been doing. Similarly, you can keep track of what other people have been doing by adding them as colleagues. It is important that you dont use your  feed area as a rss aggregator but as a method of promoting and sharing what  you do online.

Finding and adding colleagues

You can Search for people in me.edu.au and add them to your list of colleagues in the right hand panel. You add a person by clicking the Add a Colleague. You can also locate people by clicking fields in your profile under location or sector. 

You add a person as a colleague if you wish to see what they have been doing. When you go to Home you see in the centre panel the feeds from their activity - blog entries, bookmarking etc. You can see the Profile or part Profile of any member, depending on their privacy settings for their Profile. We therefore encourage members to make as much of their Profile 'Public' or 'Open to Registered Members' as possible to allow members to discover and interact with as many people as possible.

See Your Privacy below for further information.

It is important that you are aware that you have control over your information and who sees it.  There are 4 different levels that can be set – everyone, just registered users, colleagues, no-one (private). These settings can be changed at anytime.  Remember that to gain colleagues and join communities of interests it is important that relevant information is shown so you can grow your professional knowledge and networks.

A Community of Interest is the group of colleagues with the same Interest. Each Community has a page where its members can discuss and share information. Interests are the educational issues that you are concerned with and follow, which you recorded in your Profile. You can learn from others in your Community of Interest by viewing each others' activity. See Your Activity Display below.

How do I join a community?

Within your profile you can add as many interests as you like eg. ICT, Mathematics teaching, Sport, Web 2.0, Web design.  As people add Interests, each will form a page called a Community.  You can discover quickly other educators and trainers with the same interest as you.

Each Community has similar functions as an individual's space but also has a links portlet so users can share links that interest the community.

To find out what communities of interest are already there go to the menu link - 'Communities' and start to browse through the most popular communities and either:

• click on the name of the community you are interested and click 'Add this to your interests' or
• go to your profile and add that community name to your interest tag.

Note that you can not contribute to a community unless you have added it to your interests.

Your activity feed is displayed on Your public profile page.  The activity feed shows 'What I've been doing' online that you choose to add and share.

Your Home page which is called My view on the other hand displays feeds from your colleagues under the heading What's been happening. Feeds are automatically updated every few hours and display the latest entries first. 

Note: Your feeds should only be your material: not the work of third parties.