Allison Miller

1. Pre-2013 Eportfolio Forum Workshops
Creating your own eportfolio (using Mahara)
Program for Wednesday 2 October 2013
When?
9.30 am
What?
How?
Welcome
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9.50 am
ePortfolios & Mahara
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10.15 am
Creating Content Your Profile, Files,
Journals, Resume
and Plans
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Introduction
Session overview
Getting into Digital Capability Mahara http://digitalcapability.com.au/
Creating logins
Changing “Settings” - esp “Forum Post” to ‘Email Digest”
The Dashboard
Supporting information- http://bit.ly/Creatingeport
Why use an eportfolio?
Why Mahara?
○ Mahara means “to think, thinking, thought”
○ Mahara symbol is a SilverFern and symbolises “growth and
new beginning”
○ Mahara User Guide - http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.7/
Examples & Resources:
○ Mahara.org - http://mahara.org
○ Mahara User Guide v1.7 - http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.7/
○ Allison Miller’s Mahara Diigo Links:
http://www.diigo.com/user/theother66/mahara
○ Kristena Hoeppner’s Mahara Diigo links http://groups.diigo.com/group/everythingmahara?view=recent&page_num=1
○ Mahara Eportfolio Examples & Resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1908hBG4riiksjAJX9Bb
P6jZ0A4wsM4SRuk7k9LsTqF0/edit?usp=sharing
○ Other Eportfolio Resources http://vanguardvisions.com.au/eportfolios/resources/
Choose one of these and determine its purpose
Setting up:
○ your profile information
○ your profile page
○ your dashboard
○ getting some friends
○ uploading and managing files
○ creating and writing journals
Overview of Collecting and creating your stuff
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11.00 am
Morning Tea
11.30 am
Portfolios - Pages &
Collections
your resume
your education
your employment history
your achievements
your goals
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12.30 pm
Discuss Content vs Portfolio
Pages vs Collections
Pages
○ Mahara Content options - See as an example of options
http://digitalcapability.com.au/view/view.php?id=238
○ Create one ‘mash-up’ page of these features
 External content
 RSS
 Video
 GoogleApps
 Files, Images & Video
 General
 Journal
 Profile
 Resume
Sharing/permissions
Finish
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