1. Searching, Streaming and Sharing DigITal curriculum
EdNA’s World
Searching, Streaming and Sharing DigITal curriculum

3. Who is EdNA?
Service to support and promote benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia
21,000 evaluated resources on education and training in Australia
Two key functions:
Directory for education and training
Repository of web-based resources for teaching and learning
Free tools for Australian educators
EdNA lists
EdNA groups

4. EdNA’s Users Whole of the Australian education and training community
Sectors:
Adult and Community Education (ACE)
Higher Education
International Education
School Education
Vocational Education and Training (VET)
policy makers, teachers, information specialists, web managers, administrators, education departments, professional associations, national bodies, lifelong learners, parents, and students

5. EdNA’s relationships

6. Global Education website

7. Learning Quests

8. Streamed sites from EdNA

9. Why an education search engine?
Selected for education Selection criteria for items in EdNA core repository
Relevance to the Australian school curriculum;
Accuracy and recency;
Evidence of authority;
Visibility and balance of perspectives;
Upholds social justice and equity principles, human rights and copyright regulations; and
Compliance with the EdNA Online Schools Code of Practice.
Collaboration reduces local effort If a central repository saves 1 hour of local staff time for every 10 links, it takes less than 50 schools to save 1 FTE of local time/effort
Maintenance of dead links is not your problem!
Access to education resources from the ‘Deep Web’

10. Search Centre

11. Metadata Search

12. Advanced Search

13. Thesaurus-assisted search

14. Precision search tips Truncat* eg aborigin* librar* techn* anim*
Phrase searching “special education” “information technology”
Restricting searches
Australian sites
School sector sites
Category searches

15. Search Generator
EdNA Search form embedded in your website
EdNA Search results returned in your website
EdNA Search results returned via RSS

16. Taking RSS further RSS Readers for your desktop
Embedding RSS in your webpages (Kerrie Smith)RL:
Feed2JS Convert RSS feeds to cut & paste javascript (Maricopa Community College)
EdNA Online offers a range of promotional opportunities to members of the education and training community. Use these avenues to promote your own projects, activities, events, publications.
Why use?
Australian and international exposure for your projects, activities, publications, events
Between 2.5 and 3.5 million hits per month
15,000 subscribers to newsletters
Items for VET e-News can also be ed to me.

17. EdNA Groups www.groups.edna.edu.au
Tools to facilitate communication and collaboration
web forums
live chats
share weblinks, files, & images
create web pages
wikis
poll or survey members

18. Contact Ask EdNA askedna@edna.edu.au Pru Mitchell