Building and developing digital portfolio with Mahara
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The document outlines the Mahara e-portfolio system, detailing its key elements, benefits, and limitations applicable to learning assessments. It describes various configurations and usage scenarios for portfolios, including the roles of learners and institutions in their development. Additionally, it provides technical and access information for using Mahara, along with its history and funding sources.
Building and developing digital portfolio with Mahara
- 1. MIT x LTTC May 3, 2012 Mike H.L. Chui The Hong Kong Institute of Education 1
- 2. At the end of this session, participants will be able to: apply the key elements of Mahara as an e-portfolio identify the benefits and limitations of Mahara locate information for the technical specifications of Mahara
- 3. Portfolios support Assessment of Learning Portfolios support Assessment for Learning • Purpose of portfolio prescribed by • Purpose of portfolio agreed upon with institution learner • Artifacts mandated by institution to • Artifacts selected by learner to tell the determine outcomes of instruction story of their learning • Portfolio usually developed at the end of a • Portfolio maintained on an ongoing basis class, term or program - time limited throughout the class, term or program - • Portfolio and/or artifacts usually "scored" time flexible based on a rubric and quantitative data is • Portfolio and artifacts reviewed with collected for external audiences learner and used to provide feedback to • Portfolio is usually structured around a set improve learning of outcomes, goals or standards • Portfolio organization is determined by • Sometimes used to make high stakes learner or negotiated with decisions mentor/advisor/teacher • Summative - what has been learned to • Rarely used for high stakes decisions date? (Past to present) • Formative - what are the learning needs • Requires Extrinsic motivation in the future? (Present to future) • Audience: external - little choice • Fosters Intrinsic motivation - engages the learner • Audience: learner, family, friends - learner can choose
- 4. The Mahara project is funded in 2006 by New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF), involving Massey University, Auckland University of Technology, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and Victoria University of Wellington. Continued development has been made possible by further support from New Zealand’s Ministry of Education and the application of Mellon Foundation funds from the Open Polytechnic’s winning a 2007 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. For details, please visit https://mahara.org/about
- 6. Signing in http://mahara.ied.edu.hk Click on the Views link Click on Create View button (= create a new Web page)
- 7. Click on the Change my View’s column layout link (= set no. of column) Select Click
- 8. After adding several blocks for View One … Click on Next: Edit Title and Description button Enter View One for the title Click on Next: Edit Access button
- 9. Click on Add button of Secret URL You might copy the URL on the right and send to anybody you want Scroll down and click on Save button
- 10. Right-click and copy the link of view1 - 04 Debate.jpg Edit Block 4 Add a line in the last paragraph - Click on Insert/edit image button - Paste the link of view1 – 04 Debate.jpg
- 11. Right-click and copy the link of view1 - 04 Debate.jpg Edit Block 4 Add a line in the last paragraph - Click on Insert/edit image button - Paste the link of view1 – 04 Debate.jpg
- 15. Click on Paste from Word button Paste the copied content from MS Word
- 18. Easy to relocate blocks in a view Support Unicode for block content Fast duplication of a view Easy to create a collection of views Easy set up for access right and duration Views can be exported Theme selection is limited Not fully support embed HTML codes Not fully support Chinese-named files
- 19. Working environment: Apache + MySQL + PHP For details, please refer: https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Requirements Download latest version at: https://mahara.org/