Mahara ePortfolios beginner's guide : create your own ePortfolio and communities of interest within an educational and professional organization / Richard Hand, Thomas W. Bell, Derrin Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hand, Richard.

Contributor:

Bell, Thomas W.

Kent, Derrin.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Open source : community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic portfolios in education.

Employment portfolios.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Create your own e-Portfolio and Communities of Interest within an Educational or Professional Organization

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: What can Mahara do for you?; Portfolios go electronic; Towards an ePortfolio-enabled future; Why Mahara?; Personalized learning; Reflective learning; Collaborative learning; Ways of using Mahara; Case study one: Punam from Pennytown Primary; Case study two: Janet Norman from Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (PI Inc.); Case study three: Neil from Training for Work; Case study four: Christophe from Silverworks University; Join the Mahara community

Time for action - join mahara.org and exploreMahara sites in the wild; Time for action - looking at some real-life Maharas; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started with Mahara; Registering with a Mahara site; Time for action - registering to the Mahara for Beginners' demo site; Logging in for the first time; Time for action - logging in; Mahara's user interface-finding your way around; A word on Mahara themes; The main menu and submenus; Side blocks; The footer; A workflow for building your portfolio; Setting up your own profile; Profile information; Editing your profile

Time for action - editing your profileProfile pictures; Time for action - uploading your profile pictures; Editing your résumé; Time for action - editing your résumé, goals, and skills; Your profile page; Time for action - viewing and investigating your profile page; The profile page wall; Some more profile page examples; Adding a text box to your profile page; Time for action - creating a text box for your profile page; Options in the text editor; Time for action - editing a text box by adding a hyperlink; Taking the formatting and editing one step further

Time for action - adding an image to your text boxYour dashboard page; Time for action - viewing and investigating your dashboard page; Settings; Time for action - changing your settings; Changing username and password; HTML editor; Notifications; Time for action - open up your notifications inbox; Summary; Chapter 3: Create and Collect Content; Putting your files online; Mahara replaces the USB stick; Time for action - adding some folders and files to your portfolio; Giving structure to your folder tree and branches; Copyright; Upload limit; Moving and deleting files

Uploading more than one fileTime for action - zip, upload, and unzip; Using tags to organize your files and search for them; Writing in your journal; What is a journal in Mahara?; Time for action - creating your first Mahara journal; Embedding an image in your journal entry; Make a plan and set some tasks; Time for action - make a plan and set some tasks; Notes; Time for action - exploring notes; Linking to files, folders, plans, and journals on your dashboard page; Time for action - linking to files, folders, plans, and journals on your dashboard pages; Summary

Chapter 4: Organize and Showcase your Portfolio

Notes:

"Learn by doing : less theory, more results."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613832078

9781283519625

1283519623

9781849517775

1849517770

OCLC:

823244925