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Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide
Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide

Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide: Create your own ePortfolio and communities of interest within an educational and professional organization with this book and ebook

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Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide

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Key benefits

  • A step-by-step approach that takes you through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations
  • Create, customize, and maintain an impressive personal digital portfolio of web pages and mini websites (collections) with a simple point-and-click interface
  • Create and manage online learning communities and social networks through groups, shared file areas, and forums

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Mahara ePortfolios helps you to use software as you follow an experiential learning cycle. In Mahara you can: Plan your learning. Do what you do and gather evidence of your competence as you do those things. View and organize your work by structuring your data in easy-to-make (web)pages and (mini-website) collections of those pages. Reflect on your learning by use of professional journals, engaging feedback on your pages and establishing and engaging in online communities who share a similar interest. Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to develop a feature-rich and highly personal electronic portfolio. Form a digital repository of reflective journals, action learning plans, presentations, reports, images and videos. Easily share this with your friends, family, tutors, students, project team and others using this step-by-step guide written in a clear and easy to learn manner.This book guides you to build an impressive e-Portfolio and to work in professional communities of interest within a Mahara walled garden. It brings to life the key features of Mahara which will help thoughtful people to display their artefacts coherently and to engage with like-minded peers professionally.This book introduces you to exciting features of Mahara framework and helps you develop a feature-rich e-portfolio for yourself. You will see how easily you can create folders, upload multiple files like project documents, pictures and videos and share them with your friends. You will learn to set up single pages and collections of pages which organize these files, making these visible only to your own chosen peers, supervisors or friends. Then, you will allow people to give their inputs.You will learn to create journals, learning plans, your professional resume, group spaces and forums which help you get connected to the rest of the world. Customization and administration of your Mahara site will be easy after you have gone through this book. Imagine how good you will feel when you will see your knowledge, success, and ideas going live and available to your chosen audiences for their inputs.Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide is a step-by-step guide to building an impressive professional e-portfolio using Mahara. It covers the key features of Mahara that will help you set up your customized digital portfolio and display the artefacts in your preferred way allowing contribution from selected users only.

Who is this book for?

Pick up this book if you want to get started with Mahara. This book is for you if: You are an employee, student or other type of learner wanting to maintain online documentation of your projects and share it with a particular assessor/CPD Manager/teacher/trainer for feedback. You are a teacher or mentor wanting to set up an e-portfolio for your students or employees in order to encourage and advance personalized and reflective learning. You are a professional wanting to share your journals and project documents with your team by sharing your existing knowledge and creating new knowledge in communities of professional practice. You are a human resources professional who wants a software application which will enable your team to generate, capture and transfer tacit knowledge. No previous experience of Mahara is required.

What you will learn

  • Create folders of your self-produced materials in a private area within Mahara, just like on your own computer, with an easy file search facility
  • Create a variety of journals and plans in Mahara ñ facilitating your own action research and experiential learning journey
  • Make an impressive online profile and digital resume using Mahara profile fields and tailor your own profile view
  • Create scores of new web pages or mini-websites (collections of pages) entirely from scratch and customize each of them to allow much more flexibility and control over who sees what and when
  • Set an environment to receive public or private feedback on your pictures, videos, and articles
  • Connect with other Mahara users and get social: discuss topics of common interest in forums and share views with each other in collectively-owned web pages
  • Manage different groups of learners within Mahara, tutor them and lock-down their work from further editing if you need to
  • Customize and administer your Mahara site to your own preferences using a number of configuration settings for easy administration

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Table of Contents

7 Chapters
What can Mahara do for you? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with Mahara Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Create and Collect Content Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Organize and Showcase your Portfolio Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Share and Network in Groups Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Mahara Extensions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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The Packt Beginner's Guide books are just that, aimed at beginners and follow a philosophy of "Learn by doing: less theory, more results". So with that in mind, let's have a look at the book.This is the second edition of a book that was published over two years ago, bringing the content up to date and more relevant with the later Mahara versions.Chapter 1 - What can Mahara do for you?This chapter is a great on boarding to Mahara and ePortfolios and what it can be used to support in personalised learning, reflective learning and collaborative learning. The quiz about features was an interesting twist. It then brings the reader through 4 interesting case studies.Chapter 2 - Getting Started with MaharaI expected the chapter to explain how to install Mahara as most of the beginners guides do, however this chapter encourages the user to register at the demo Mahara website of the authors. This lets the user try out Mahara without having to go through installing it. It also provides info on some other sites the user could use. It walks the reader through all the basic aspects of Mahara in a nice step by step way.Chapter 3 - Create and Collect contentThis chapter really brings the reader to the next phase of using Mahara and ePortfolios, showing as it says how "Mahara replaces the USB Stick". Now I don't fully agree with that, but the authors do give good reasons for taking this view. It brings the reader through managing the files into and within Mahara, and introduces some other features.Chapter 4 - Organise and Showcase your PortfolioContent is great, but displaying and controlling the display is key and this chapter shows where Mahara is great at this and brings the reader through the key steps to achieve their goals. The tone and pace of this chapter is really excellent and the guidance and examples are very useful.Chapter 5 - Share and Network in GroupsOne area I really like Mahara for is the Group features. This chapter brings the reader into the world of Mahara groups and shows what they can do and use them for. This is a must-read chapter!Chapter 6 - Course Groups and Other Roles in MaharaAt this stage the reader has gone through all user related aspects of Mahara and this now focuses on the administrative areas of Mahara and what options are available there. This is an important chapter especially for those considering for their organisation rather than as an individual.Chapter 7 - Mahara ExtensionsAs with many open source systems, there are a number of plugin or extensions available for Mahara and this chapter introduces some of them to the reader and explains their usage.AppendicesThey are an interesting inclusion providing the user a Mahara Implementation pre-planner and a guide for installing Mahara.Some thoughtsOverall the book is a great introduction to using Mahara as an ePortfolio tool. So if you are looking for something in that area, this book is a good read!I did find the explanations to be clear and concise and provided a good balance of guidance and step by step information.I loved the cases studies and would have liked to see more.
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