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Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide. Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities

Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide. Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities

Richard William Hand, Glenys Gillian Bradbury, Derrin Michael Kent, Margaret Anne Kent, Margaret Kent, Flexible Learning Network

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Mahara is a user-centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. These views helps you display your artefacts – text files, spreadsheets, images, and videos – in a way you choose and to the people you want. You can also create online communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums.Being a novice, you will need a quick and easy implementation guide to set up your feature-rich digital portfolio.This book is your 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.This book will introduce to the exciting features of Mahara framework and help you develop a feature-rich e-portfolio for yourself. You will see how easily you can create folders, upload multiple files like journals, project documents, pictures, and videos and share them with your friends. You will learn to set up views of these files, making these visible to your chosen friends only. And then, you will allow people to give their inputs.You will learn to create blogs and forums and get connected to the rest of the world. Customization and administration of your Mahara site will become 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 1.2 ePortfolios
    • Table of Contents
    • Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios
    • Credits
    • About the Authors
    • About the Reviewers
    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • What you need for this book
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Time for actionHeading
        • What Just Happened?
        • Pop quiz Heading
        • Have a go heroHeading
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 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 actionlooking at some real-life Maharas
        • What just happened?
      • Why Mahara?
        • Personalized learning
        • Reflective learning
        • Collaborative learning
        • Pop quiz what is important to you in an ePortfolio?
      • Join the Mahara community
      • Time for actionregistering and exploring further
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz learning about http://mahara.org
        • Have a go heropressing the buttons till it hurts
      • Summary
    • 2. Getting Started with Mahara
      • Registering with a Mahara site
      • Time for actionregistering onto the demonstration site
        • What just happened?
      • Logging in for the first time
      • Time for actionlogging in
        • What just happened?
      • Maharas user interfacefinding 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 actionediting your profile
        • What just happened?
        • Profile icons
      • Time for actionuploading your profile icons
        • What just happened?
        • Editing your resumé goals and skills
      • Time for actionediting your resumé goals and skills
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz understanding your profile information
        • Have a go herodoing more with your profile information
      • Your profile page
      • Time for actionviewing and investigating your profile page
        • What just happened?
        • The profile page wall
        • Some more profile page examples
      • Adding a text box to your profile page
      • Time for actioncreating a text box for your profile page
        • What just happened?
        • Options in the text editor
      • Time for actionediting a text box by adding a hyperlink
        • What just happened?
        • Taking the formatting and editing one step further
      • Time for actionadding an image to your text box
        • What just happened?
      • Summary
    • 3. Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio
      • Putting your files online
        • Mahara replaces the USB stick
      • Time for actionadding some folders and files to your Portfolio
        • What just happened?
        • Giving structure to your folder tree and branches
        • Copyright
        • Upload limit
        • Moving and deleting files
        • Uploading more than one file
      • Time for actionmultiple file upload
        • What just happened?
        • Using tagging to organize your files and search for them
        • Pop quiz files, folders, and tagging
        • Have a go herostart setting up your files, folders, and tags
      • Blogging
        • What is a blog?
      • Time for actioncreating your first Mahara blog
        • What just happened?
        • Embedding an image in your blog post
        • Pop quiz blogging in Mahara
        • Have a go herogo on... get reflecting...
      • Linking to files, folders, and blogs in your Profile Page
      • Time for actionlinking to files, folders, and blogs in your Profile Page
        • What just happened?
      • Summary
    • 4. Views
      • What are Views in Mahara?
      • Time for actioncreating and laying out your View
        • What just happened?
      • Adding/removing columns from your View
      • Time for actionchanging your View layout
        • What just happened?
      • Time for actionadding View details
        • What just happened?
      • View access
      • Time for actionediting your View access
        • What just happened?
      • Making a View copyable
      • Deciding who can access your View
      • Time-limiting access
        • Pop quiz creating a View
      • Editing your View once you have created it
        • Have a go heroedit your View
        • Blocks
      • Copying Views
      • Time for actioncopying a View
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz copying Views
      • View feedback
      • Time for actionfeedback on a View's content
        • What just happened?
      • Best practice examplemulti-page view
      • Time for actionlinking Views together to make a multi-page View
        • What just happened?
      • Assessing the quality of your View
        • View quality checklist
          • Aesthetics
          • Content
        • Have a go heromake a top quality View
      • Summary
    • 5. Working in Groups and Interacting with Friends
      • Groups
      • Time for actioncreating a group
        • What just happened?
      • Group types
        • Open membership groups
        • Request membership groups
        • Invite only groups
      • Navigating your new group
      • Time for actionopening up and navigating around your group
        • What just happened?
      • The groups shortcut sideblock
        • Have a go heroset up some new groups and create their About pages
      • Joining an open membership group
      • Time for actionjoining a group in maharaforbeginners.tdm.info
        • What just happened?
      • Managing your group members
      • Time for actionremoving group members and changing roles
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz creating Mahara groups
      • Group forums
      • Time for actioncreating a forum
        • What just happened?
      • Forum moderation
      • Managing your forum
      • The exciting bit: Forum topics
        • Forum discussion frameworks
      • Time for actionadding a discussion topic
        • What just happened?
      • Naming forums and their topic subjects
      • Posting to a topic
      • Time for actionreplying to a topic post
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz group Forums
      • Group files
      • Group views
      • Finding Groups
      • Time for actionfinding and joining a group
        • What just happened?
      • Joining a request membership group
      • Time for actionrequesting to join a group
        • What just happened?
      • Accepting/Denying requests to join a group
      • Making friends!
      • Time for actionfinding friends and adding them to your list
        • What just happened?
      • Responding to a friend request
      • Managing your friends
      • Time for actionfiltering and removing friends
        • What just happened?
      • Summary
    • 6. Site Settings and Exporting Your Portfolio
      • Preferences
      • Time for actionchanging your preferences
        • What just happened?
        • Changing username and password
        • Friends control
        • HTML editor
        • Messages from other users
        • Show controls to add and remove columns when editing a view
        • Maximum tags in cloud
      • Preferences in the right sidebar
      • Notifications
      • Time for actionmanaging your notifications
        • What just happened?
      • Watchlist
      • Activity preferences
      • Time for actionchoosing your activity preferences
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quizactivity types
        • Have a go heroplay with different preference and settings
      • Exporting your portfolio
      • Time for actionexporting your portfolio
        • What just happened?
        • HTML website export
        • LEAP2A export
        • Pop quiz Export
        • Have a go heroShow off your portfolio by exporting to HTML website
      • Summary
    • 7. Institution Administrators, Staff Members, and Group Tutors
      • What is an institution?
        • Administering an institution
      • Time for actionadding users to your institution
        • What just happened?
      • Bulk uploading users to your institution
      • Time for actionadding institutional users by CSV
        • What just happened?
      • Editing user account settings
      • Time for actionfinding a user and suspending them
        • What just happened?
      • Masquerading as another user
      • Managing member roles in your institution
      • Time for actionmanaging your institution's members, staff and admins
        • What just happened?
      • Configuring your institution's settings
      • Dealing with admin notifications
      • Institution views and files
        • Views
        • Files
        • Pop quiz managing an institution
      • Less learner-driven aspects of Mahara
      • What is a course group?
        • Case study
      • Time for actionsetting up a Course: Controlled Membership group
        • What just happened?
      • Publicly viewable groups
      • Tutors
      • Time for actionadding a Tutor to your course group
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go heroset up some course groups
      • Submitting work for assessment
      • Time for actionsubmitting a view to a course group for assessment
        • What just happened?
      • Time for actionreleasing a view submitted for assessment
        • What just happened?
      • Putting it all together into an assessment process
      • Time for actionan example assessment process with Mahara
        • What just happened?
        • Pop quiz Course Groups, Staff Members and Tutors
      • Summary
    • A. Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner
      • What's involved with a Mahara implementation?
              • ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
              • DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
              • EVALUATION AND CONTINUATION
      • Analysis and Specification
        • Deciding if Mahara is right for you
              • Collecting, organizing, selecting
              • Reflecting, testing, verifying, and planning
              • Representing and publishing
              • Administrating, implementing, adapting
              • Usability
        • Understanding your own specific needs and working conditions
          • Concept 1: Purpose
          • Concept 2: Learning Activity Design
          • Concept 3: Processes
          • Concept 4: Ownership
          • Concept 5: Disruptive Nature
        • Choosing between a Mahara partner-supported site or your own installation
        • Scoping out your implementation plan
          • Decide on your implementation timeframe
          • Ensure you have the people's commitment
          • Draft out your initial Mahara design
          • Draft out your Mahara-specific policies
          • Start to embed Mahara into institutional and program priorities
      • Design and implementation
        • Creating a buzz!
        • Getting some quick wins in first!
        • Continuously involving your users in the design process
        • Keep going despite adversity!
              • People can be implementation resisters
              • Situational Response Tactics
              • Situational Response Tactic 1: Big Bombs
              • Situational Response Tactic 2: Sniper Fire
      • Evaluation and continuation
        • Reviewing and re-evaluating
        • Changing and embedding
    • B. Installing Mahara
      • What will you need?
      • Downloading Mahara
      • Time for actiondownloading Mahara
        • What Just Happened?
      • Using the command line
      • Time for actioncreating your Mahara file structure
        • What Just Happened?
      • Creating the database
      • Time for actioncreating the Mahara database
        • What Just Happened?
        • Have a go herousing the command line to create your database
      • Setting up the data directory
      • Time for actionsetting up the data directory
        • What just happened?
      • Time for actioncreating the config.php file
        • What Just Happened?
      • Running the Installer
      • Time for actionrunning the installer
      • The last step: Setting up a cron process
        • Can I install Mahara on Windows?
        • What about installation on other operating systems?
      • What is a Mahara partner and what can they do for me?
        • Finding a Mahara partner
    • C. Pop quiz Answers
      • Chapter 2
          • Understanding your profile information
      • Chapter 3
          • files, folders, and tagging
          • blogging in Mahara
      • Chapter 4
          • Creating a View
          • Copying Views
      • Chapter 5
          • Creating Mahara Groups
          • Group Forums
      • Chapter 6
          • Activity Types
          • Export
      • Chapter 7
          • Managing an Institution
    • Index
  • Titel: Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide. Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities
  • Autor: Richard William Hand, Glenys Gillian Bradbury, Derrin Michael Kent, Margaret Anne Kent, Margaret Kent, Flexible Learning Network
  • Originaler Titel: Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide. Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities
  • ISBN: 9781847199072, 9781847199072
  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2010-02-09
  • Format: E-book
  • Artikelkennung: e_3c5f
  • Verleger: Packt Publishing