I am an educational technologist at the University of the Highlands and Islands, based in Lews Castle College, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

From 2004 to 2008 I worked as a primary school teacher on the North Shore in New Zealand. From 2009 to 2012 I worked for HRDNZ (Moodle Partner) as an eLearning consultant. In 2011 I started work at Unitec Institute of Technology as web tools support, moved on to being an academic advisor with a focus on e-learning, until late 2015. In 2013 I also started working for Waitemata District Health Board as an instructional designer, and I am now working full time in this position.

I enjoy photography, iceskating, skiing, snowboarding, reading, writing, painting, sketching, running... and of course computers and eLearning!

Hello

creative concept in learning and teaching for adults and mainly in corporate environments are my profession. As owner of eLeDia we support educational institutions and HR departmenst in implementing learning solutioons mainly based on Moodle. You know Moodle? ... the phantastic learning management system. After eight years of working with Moodle every week I find new opportunities to work with the tool.

Since some time I'm investigating how to use Mahara. My main interest is to see how Mahara can be part of a lifelong learning scenario that supports users in different situation: informal and mor formal learning.

I'm just thinking that Moodle is more a learning communication tool with personal portfolio. The term 'portfolio' is alittle bit bulky (German: sperrig). While primary schools and Kindergardens are working with portfolios here in Germany secondary schools, HE and universities use portfolios seldom and mostly on project base.

Projects trying to introduce eportfolios sometimes seem to fail. Lets Mahara introduce not as a problematic intention from teachers but as a solution for real needs. What will happen if we introduce mainly the communicational aspect and not the pages and collections?