Get out there and get involved!

So there's this new thing called me.edu.au .... wow that's wonderful!.. I've joined...  but what do I do now?

A question I feel a lot of people are asking. Honestly, I feel the best way to utilise me.edu.au fully is to just be brave and put yourself out there. You may feel like you are totally alone but once you start to open up to the community and get involved you may feel differently! me.edu.au is meant to be a place for educators to share and collaborate, so lets get cracking!

Join: visit some of the me.edu.au communities and join them if they interest you and introduce yourself on the whiteboard.

Contribute: add some of the resources you regularly use to the left hand link sharing space of your communities.

Find: search for collegues, friends or people who have similar interest to you and add them as a collegue.

Write: Start up your me.edu.au blog. If you don't know where to start, try a few ideas suggested in some of the communities and from other blogs eg. About me, blogging community

Tag: make sure you tag your blog posts with relevant tags, but also with the names of the communities you'd like to share your blog post with. Once published, your blog post will flow through to those communities and appear as in the related links from edna and blogs box on the community pages.

Feed: gather RSS feeds of all the places where you do things online eg. flickr, wiki spaces, nings, other blogs, facebook, del.icio.us, diigo, twitter, plurk etc etc etc etc and put them into the feed part of your profile (edit my profile > feeds) Here is an example of the feeds I have coming through.

What will happen now? = Anything you add to your networks across the web will be picked up from your RSS feeds and displayed in your public profile. If your collegues also do this, you will be able to see what they are doing as well. Personally I think this is one of the best things that me.edu.au has going on right now.

So start joining, contributing, finding, writing, tagging and feeding so you can get the most out of YOUR community!

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Posted at 04:34PM Jul 11, 2008 by Alison Hall  |  Comments[0]