After a okay keynote and a recharge of my digital tools, I am now at Randy Orwin's "ePortfolios Using Mahara."
I have seen Randy speak and teach a number of times, specifically at Moodle Camp in 2007 in Washington. He is an great community leader and I am thrilled to hear him speak today.
Randy is apparently an independent consultant now. Good luck, Brother. :)
Randy's slides are located here. Mahara's site is here.
What is an ePortfolio?
System Requirements
In an actual Mahara site, there are a lot of features and tweaks that look a lot like Moodle, Ning or any other CMS or social networking site. There are extensive tools for modifying a student's public site or a resume or other parts. A student can share files, information, images, and other information on their profile page.
Commentary: What I don't get yet is what I need this or what purpose this serves... waiting...
Mahara uses an industry standard portfolio management so you can export those materials to other portfolio servers.
Mahara can be a great platform for a Dropbox for students; allowing them to put raw files for use from any location later.
Commentary: Okay, the dropbox is brilliant. I'd like to see what the Moodle integration looks like; if it is as seamless as it looks like it COULD be, this could be a great thing...
There is an incredible amount of control on the part of students on who sees content and they can limit or delimit access to their liking.
Interestingly, the student control is absolute: site administrators do not have access to student information without a student choosing to submit or see that information.
Commentary: I think this has a ton of potential, but, I'd really like to see it in action. Does it/can it pull from the cloud? Does it/can it pull information from Moodle? What is the potential here? Lots of questions...
Cross-posted at the Helena Public Schools NCCE 2010 Blog and the Tech-Savvy Teacher Blog.
I have seen Randy speak and teach a number of times, specifically at Moodle Camp in 2007 in Washington. He is an great community leader and I am thrilled to hear him speak today.
Randy is apparently an independent consultant now. Good luck, Brother. :)
Randy's slides are located here. Mahara's site is here.
What is an ePortfolio?
- A portfolio is a collection of work; ePortfolios is a digital collection of work.
- Free, open source
- Developed by the New Zealand government
System Requirements
- Linux is key; you should really run it on a windows server.
- Native to the PostgreSQL database.
In an actual Mahara site, there are a lot of features and tweaks that look a lot like Moodle, Ning or any other CMS or social networking site. There are extensive tools for modifying a student's public site or a resume or other parts. A student can share files, information, images, and other information on their profile page.
Commentary: What I don't get yet is what I need this or what purpose this serves... waiting...
Mahara uses an industry standard portfolio management so you can export those materials to other portfolio servers.
Mahara can be a great platform for a Dropbox for students; allowing them to put raw files for use from any location later.
Commentary: Okay, the dropbox is brilliant. I'd like to see what the Moodle integration looks like; if it is as seamless as it looks like it COULD be, this could be a great thing...
There is an incredible amount of control on the part of students on who sees content and they can limit or delimit access to their liking.
Interestingly, the student control is absolute: site administrators do not have access to student information without a student choosing to submit or see that information.
Commentary: I think this has a ton of potential, but, I'd really like to see it in action. Does it/can it pull from the cloud? Does it/can it pull information from Moodle? What is the potential here? Lots of questions...
Cross-posted at the Helena Public Schools NCCE 2010 Blog and the Tech-Savvy Teacher Blog.
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