Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios : beginner's guide : create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities / Derrin Michael Kent ...[et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Derrin Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic portfolios in education.

Open source software.

Internet in education.

World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: What Can Mahara Do for Me?; Portfolios go electronic; Towards an ePortfolio-enabled future; 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 4 Work; Time for action - looking at some real-life Maharas; Why Mahara?; Personalized learning; Reflective learning; Collaborative learning; Join the Mahara community

Time for action - registering and exploring furtherSummary; Chapter 2: Getting Started with Mahara; Registering with a Mahara site; Time for action - registering onto the demonstration 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; Site blocks; The footer; Setting up your own profile; Profile information; Editing your profile; Time for action - editing your profile; Profile icons; Time for action - uploading your profile icons; Editing your resumé goals and skills

Time for action - editing your resumé goals and skillsYour 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 box; Summary; Chapter 3: Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio; Putting your files online

Mahara replaces the USB stickTime 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 file; Time for action - multiple file upload; Using tagging to organize your files and search for them; Blogging; What is a blog?; Time for action - creating your first Mahara blog; Embedding an image in your blog post; Linking to files, folders, and blogs in your Profile Page; Time for action - linking to files, folders, and blogs; in your Profile Page; Summary

Chapter 4: ViewsWhat are Views in Mahara?; Time for action - creating and laying out your View; Adding/removing columns from your View; Time for action - changing your View layout; Time for action - adding View details; View access; Time for action - editing your View access; Making a View copyable; Deciding who can access your View; Time-limiting access; Editing your View once you have created it; Blocks; Copying Views; Time for action - copying a View; View feedback; Time for action - feedback on a View's content; Best practice example - multi-page view

Time for action - linking Views together

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612501890

9781282501898

1282501895

9781847199072

1847199070

OCLC:

796383983