Mahara ePortfolios Beginner's Guide

Create your own e-Portfolio and Communities of Interest within an Educational or Professional Organization with this book and ebook.

• 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

In Detail

Mahara E-Portfolios 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 E-Portfolios: 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 E-Portfolios: 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.