Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide - Helion
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Autor: Derrin Kent, Richard William Hand, Derrin Michael Kent, Richard Hand, Thomas BellTytuł oryginału: Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide
ISBN: 9781849517775
stron: 328, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2012-07-26
Księgarnia: Helion
Cena książki: 139,00 zł
Tagi: Inne
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.
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Spis treści
Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's Guide. Create your own ePortfolio and communities of interest within an educational and professional organization with this book and eBook -- spis treści
- Mahara ePortfolios Beginners Guide
- Table of Contents
- Mahara ePortfolios Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Time for action heading
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz heading
- Have a go hero heading
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. What can Mahara do for you?
- Portfolios go electronic
- Towards an ePortfolio-enabled future
- Why Mahara?
- Personalized learning
- Reflective learning
- Collaborative learning
- Pop quiz what is important to you in an ePortfolio?
- 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 for Work
- Case study four: Christophe from Silverworks University
- Join the Mahara community
- Time for action join mahara.org and explore
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz learning about http://mahara.org
- Mahara sites in the wild
- Time for action looking at some real-life Maharas
- What just happened?
- Have a go hero pressing the buttons till it hurts
- Summary
- 2. Getting Started with Mahara
- Registering with a Mahara site
- Time for action registering to the Mahara for Beginners' demo site
- What just happened?
- Logging in for the first time
- Time for action logging in
- What just happened?
- Mahara's user interface finding your way around
- A word on Mahara themes
- The main menu and submenus
- Side blocks
- The footer
- A word on Mahara themes
- A workflow for building your portfolio
- Setting up your own profile
- Profile information
- Editing your profile
- Time for action editing your profile
- What just happened?
- Profile pictures
- Time for action uploading your profile pictures
- What just happened?
- Editing your résumé
- Time for action editing your résumé, goals, and skills
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz understanding your profile information
- Have a go hero doing more with your profile information
- Your profile page
- Time for action viewing 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 action creating a text box for your profile page
- What just happened?
- Options in the text editor
- Time for action editing a text box by adding a hyperlink
- What just happened?
- Taking the formatting and editing one step further
- Time for action adding an image to your text box
- What just happened?
- Your dashboard page
- Time for action viewing and investigating your dashboard page
- What just happened?
- Settings
- Time for action changing your settings
- What just happened?
- Changing username and password
- HTML editor
- Notifications
- Time for action open up your notifications inbox
- What just happened?
- Summary
- 3. Create and Collect Content
- Putting your files online
- Mahara replaces the USB stick
- Time for action adding 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 action zip, upload, and unzip
- What just happened?
- Using tags to organize your files and search for them
- Pop quiz files, folders, and tagging
- Have a go hero start setting up your files, folders, and tags
- Writing in your journal
- What is a journal in Mahara?
- Time for action creating your first Mahara journal
- What just happened?
- Embedding an image in your journal entry
- Pop quiz writing a journal in Mahara
- Have a go hero go on... get reflecting...
- Make a plan and set some tasks
- Time for action make a plan and set some tasks
- What just happened?
- Notes
- Time for action exploring notes
- What just happened?
- Linking to files, folders, plans, and journals on your dashboard page
- Time for action linking to files, folders, plans, and journals on your dashboard pages
- What just happened?
- Summary
- Putting your files online
- 4. Organize and Showcase your Portfolio
- What are pages in Mahara?
- Time for action create a page and edit the content
- What just happened?
- A word on small page headers
- Without small page headers
- With small page headers
- Adding/removing columns from your page
- Time for action editing your page layout
- What just happened?
- Time for action adding page details
- What just happened?
- Page access
- Time for action editing your page access
- What just happened?
- Deciding who can access your page
- Time limiting access
- Making a page copyable
- Secret URLs
- Time for action create a secret URL
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz creating a page
- Editing your page once you have created it
- Have a go hero edit your page
- Blocks
- Copying pages
- Time for action copying a page
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz copying pages
- Page feedback
- Time for action feeding back on a page's content
- What just happened?
- Collections linking pages together
- Time for action create a collection
- What just happened?
- Have a go hero add a navigation block to your collection
- Assessing the quality of your page/collection
- Page quality checklist
- Content
- Aesthetics
- Have a go hero make a top quality page
- Exporting your portfolio
- Time for action exporting your portfolio
- What just happened?
- HTML export
- Leap2A export
- Pop quiz export
- Have a go hero show off your portfolio by exporting to an HTML website
- Summary
- 5. Share and Network in Groups
- Groups
- Time for action creating a group
- What just happened?
- Membership
- Open membership groups
- Request membership groups
- Friend invitations and recommendations
- Navigating your new group
- Time for action opening up and navigating around your group
- What just happened?
- The groups shortcut side block
- Have a go hero set up some new groups and create their About pages
- Joining an open membership group
- Time for action joining a group in Mahara for Beginners
- What just happened?
- Managing your group members
- Time for action managing group members and changing roles
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz creating Mahara groups
- Group forums
- Time for action creating a forum
- What just happened?
- Forum moderation
- Forum topic expansion
- Managing your forum
- Forum topics
- Forum discussion frameworks
- Time for action adding a discussion topic
- What just happened?
- Naming forums and their topic subjects
- Posting to a topic
- Time for action replying to a topic post
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz group forums
- Group pages
- Group files
- Finding groups
- Time for action finding and joining a group
- What just happened?
- Joining a request membership group
- Time for action requesting to join a group
- What just happened?
- Accepting/denying requests to join a group
- Making friends!
- Time for action finding friends and adding them to your list
- What just happened?
- Responding to a friend request
- Managing your friends
- Time for action filtering and removing friends
- What just happened?
- Summary
- 6. Course Groups and Other Roles in Mahara
- Less learner-driven aspects of Mahara
- Institutions
- What is an institution?
- Administering an institution
- Time for action adding users to your institution
- What just happened?
- Bulk uploading users to your institution
- Time for action adding institution users by CSV
- What just happened?
- Approving pending users
- Editing user account settings
- Time for action finding and suspending a user
- What just happened?
- Switching user roles in your institution
- Time for action creating institution staff and institution administrators
- What just happened?
- Masquerading as another user
- Configuring your institution's settings
- Dealing with admin notifications
- Institution pages
- Institution files
- Pop quiz managing your institution
- Controlled membership groups
- Course group roles
- Create a controlled membership group and allow course roles
- Time for action setting up a controlled membership group with course roles
- What just happened?
- Publicly viewable groups
- Tutors
- Time for action adding a tutor to your controlled group with course roles
- What just happened?
- Have a go hero set up some tutors in controlled or request groups
- Submitting work for assessment
- Time for action submitting a page to a course group for assessment
- What just happened?
- Time for action releasing a page submitted for assessment
- What just happened?
- Putting it all together into an assessment process
- Time for action an example assessment process with Mahara
- What just happened?
- Pop quiz course groups, staff members, and tutors
- Summary
- 7. Mahara Extensions
- Extending Mahara
- Mahara extensions list
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Time for action create a list of CPD activities
- What just happened?
- My Learning
- Multiple intelligences
- Time for action determine multiple intelligences and display them
- What just happened?
- Learning styles
- Time for action determine your learning styles and display them
- What just happened?
- Embedly
- Time for action embed some content using Embedly
- What just happened?
- Mixcloud
- SchoolTube
- Social sharing Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
- Time for action add a Twitter Tweet button to a Mahara page
- What just happened?
- Should you go social?
- LinkedIn profile
- Time for action embed your LinkedIn profile in a page
- What just happened?
- Summary
- A. Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner
- What's involved with a Mahara implementation?
- Analysis and Specification
- Deciding if Mahara is right for you
- Understanding your own specific needs and working conditions
- Choosing between a Mahara-partner supported site or your own install
- Scoping out your implementation plan
- Deciding on your implementation timeframe
- Ensuring you have staff commitment
- Drafting out your initial Mahara content, site structure, visual design, and staff roles
- Drafting out your Mahara-specific policies
- Starting to embed Mahara use into wider institutional and program priorities
- Planning, Design, and Implementation
- Creating a Buzz!
- Getting some quick wins in first!
- Continuously involving your users in the planning and design process
- Keep going despite adversity!
- People can be implementation resistors:
- 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
- Summary
- B. Installing Mahara
- What will you need?
- Can I install Mahara on Windows?
- What about installation on other operating systems?
- Downloading Mahara
- Time for action downloading Mahara
- What just happened?
- Using the command line
- Time for action creating your Mahara file structure
- What Just Happened?
- Creating the database
- Time for action creating the Mahara database
- What just happened?
- Have a go hero using the command line to create your database
- Setting up the data directory
- Time for action setting up the data directory
- What just happened?
- Time for action creating the config.php file
- What just happened?
- Running the installer
- Time for action running the installer
- What just happened?
- The last step setting up a cron process
- What is a Mahara Partner and what can they do for me?
- Finding a Mahara Partner
- What will you need?
- C. Pop quiz Answers
- Chapter 1
- Learning about http://mahara.org
- Chapter 2
- Understanding your profile information
- Chapter 3
- Files, folders, and tagging
- Writing a journal in Mahara
- Chapter 4
- Creating a page
- Copying pages
- Export
- Chapter 5
- Creating Mahara groups
- Group forums
- Chapter 6
- Managing your institution
- Course groups, staff members, and tutors
- Chapter 1
- Index