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Jan 31, 2011

Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide

Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide By Derrin Michael Kent, Glenys Gillian Bradbury, Margaret Anne Kent, Richard William Hand
Publisher: Packt Publishing | ISBN: 1847199062 | edition 2010 | PDF | 264 pages | 10.1 mb

Create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities
Create, customize, and maintain an impressive personal digital portfolio with a simple point-and-click interface
Set customized access to share your text files, images, and videos with your family, friends, and others
Create online learning communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums
A step-by-step approach that takes you through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations


In Detail

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.
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