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Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   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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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517768
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mahara ePortfolios Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. What can Mahara do for you? FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Mahara 3. Create and Collect Content 4. Organize and Showcase your Portfolio 5. Share and Network in Groups 6. Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara 7. Mahara Extensions Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner Installing Mahara Pop quiz — Answers

Time for action — embed some content using Embedly


Let's add some Web 2.0 content to a Mahara page, using the Embedly block:

  1. 1. Create a new page in your http://foliofor.me portfolio. Switch to edit view and look under the External content heading. You will see that you have the Embedly block available:

  2. 2. Drag the block onto your page as you would do with any other block in Mahara.

  3. 3. You will see the options box pop up. You need to do a couple of things before you can fill these out. Sign up for a free Embedly API account, and find the URL of what you want to embed. Let's sign up.

  4. 4. Visit https://app.embedly/pricing/free and fill out the form with your own details. With the free plan, you can embed 10,000 links per month — that should be plenty! Once you have signed up, you will see a page that shows you Your API Key. Leave this page open for now and you will come back to it later.

  5. 5. Now, let's find some content to embed. Visit http://embedly/providers. This shows you all of the services...

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