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The purpose of this calendar is to provide information about special days/weeks/months of celebration appropriate to Australian schools. Teachers may like to use the events listed, and the information each notice provides, as the basis of their own local calendar. It is distributed annually as a wall chart to all schools.

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edna's instance of the elgg personal learning space is available for Australian educators to roadtest for professional learning and e-portfolios. Features include a personal profile, personal blog, RSS feeds aggregator, file space, tag cloud, and social networking.

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edna browse education topics enables users to find what they are looking for quickly by providing a short cut to various resources within edna. Copying the URL can enable external sites to link into edna's browse facility.

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Studying in Australia, scholarship, fellowship and grant opportunities, university courses, university courses online, student exchanges, lifelong learning (return to study), adult students re-entry, teaching, recognition of teaching qualifications, working as a teacher are the topics covered in the edna frequently asked questions.

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edna exists within a policy framework including content standards, edna principles, news headlines, privacy statement and terms and conditions.

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edna has national and international alliances and cooperative agreements with education and training organisations in relation to harvesting, distributed searching, sharing of resources and knowledge transfer.

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This page provides access to all of the events listed on the edna calendars of events. Users may select to display particular calendars of events such as: Australian Schools calendar, Careers events, Competitions for Schools, Conferences and Events in Australia, Conferences and Events Overseas, Early Childhood Events, Library Conferences and Events, Online Conferences and Events, VET & ACE Events.

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Entry point for information about the status and implementation of metadata within edna (Education Network Australia). The edna metadata standard is based on the schema defined by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

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The edna Metadata toolset is a free metadata creator for use by the education and training community. It enables the inclusion of metadata schema and thesauri and is available for a range of operating systems and environments.

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Published fortnightly, this newsletter informs about all the resources, services and tools edna has to offer the education and training community - including comments from education and training leaders and commentators, visitors, activities and events, and education and training stakeholder updates. The content is organised in the following categories: Presentations, Comments, Views; edna Resources; edna Activities; and From the edna Office.