Beginning and establishing teachers
Newsletters of interest to beginning teachers
The edna for schools newsletter, published fortnightly, features quality online resources for those working within schools. It includes a theme for online resources, key dates from the Australian Schools Calendar, online projects, professional networking news from edna, upcoming events, conferences and opportunities, and selected news and websites.
edna also publishes an Early Childhood Newsletter featuring quality online resources for those working with children 0-8 years old.
Places to collaborate and share
edna Groups contains a large range of online communication tools for educators. The tools within Groups allow users to save and share web links, run forums, blog news and opinions, create lessons and conduct live web conferences and more!
me.edu.au provides Australian education and training professionals with an online networking and profile space.
Discussion lists
Discussion lists are a great way to be kept informed. edna Online currently hosts more than 700 education and training-related discussion and distribution lists. edna Lists are available free to the Australian education and training community for education, training, learning, and research purposes. Join an existing list, or start your own!
Other discussion lists of relevance to educators include:
Oz Teacher Librarian (OZTL) Network
OZTeacher Network
Teacher Education Network
edna categories
ICT ideas for beginning teachers
Engaging students in today's world can be a challenge.
Teachers need ICT skills to adapt to the way learning has changed. Integrating ICTs into the curriculum engages students and prepares and connects them to the global world. Using ICT in the classroom setting can support all learning areas of the curriculum by building on students' prior knowledge whilst developing research skills. It also provides a great way for students to collaborate.
Not only are ICTs great for engaging students but there are many sites that will make a teacher's life easier.
