After the call, a very lively discussion started.
This was very cool!!
Will skype you. Tuesday ok? Forgot my good mic at work.
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Im a day ahead of you so as you say the presentation will be on the 18th a Thursday and I will be talking to you on a Friday. I hope that is right????? Please correct me if I am wrong. I would prefer you skped me. and give the NZ time. Yes Ithink it is 9pm Correct me again
Ta Dirk
This iis really what the new age is about
I am interested being part of it, if you have still any room for me. Here is my gmail address which is also and Google Wave address.
Hope to see you on there,
Cheers,
Dominique-Alain Jan (dominiquealain.jan@gmail.com)
I would like to keep things simple. I would like to ask you to talk about your journey and experiences with Mahara.
How do you use it?
Why do you use it?
What's exciting about Mahara?
How are you involved with Mahara?
What suggestions would you have for a teacher new to eportfolios?
How does Mahara set itself apart from others?
Basically, I would like you to talk about Mahara related that would be useful for a teacher about to start using or thinking about using an eportfolio system. No stress, just some advice and experience sharing with a bunch of teachers.
Thanks so much,
Dirk
I can be found on skype under Dirk Meyer, Airdrie, Alberta, Canada
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Now let me get it straight I skype in at 9pm on the 29th I think you are one day behind. Please correct me if Im wrong. I would rather Skype. Have just downloaded Wave but no expert.
Secondly what would you like me to talk about : My journey with Mahara????? How I implement it in the classroom. Up to you
Skype Cyndy Lomas, Auckland ,New Zealand
As you can guess on my site it is a moodly Mahara. No one else uses it at my school. Im addicted and with Nigels help developed my site.
Look forward to a reply
Cheers Dirk. Im excited and a little apprehensive ,
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Heinz,Krettek@googlemail.com looks for an invitation
I will check my timezone :-D
Heinz
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you're on the wave 'Mahara Eportfolio at 2010 Palliser Teacher Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada'
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We are in the Standard Mountain Time which is GMT minus 7 hours. Is Germany GMT?
Wenn es bei euch 21:00 Uhr ist, dann ist es 13:00 bei uns, oder 14:00Uhr...Kommt drauf an ob Ihr Sommer oder Winterzeit habt..weiss ich nicht mehr
Looks like Ian is GMT +11 (Melbourne) which would be plus 18 hours from where I am (Calgary, Canada)
Cyndy appears to be GMT +13 (New Zealand)
So, the talk is scheduled to be from 13:00-14:15 which would be 21:00 in Germany and 7:00 in Melbourne and 9:00 in New Zealand. ?? Just doing a quick guess.
I was thinking we could do the call at 13:30 our time? Is that reasonable?
Regards, Ian
I think to communicate here is ok. Do you own an googlewave account? I can send you innvitations.
cheers Heinz
PS I didn´t check the time zones? plz "translate" them for me!!
]]>This is great !! Looking forward to the discussion. It will be the highlight of our presentation I am sure.
Heinz, I was going to contact you and Nigel individually but you are ahead of me
We have been confirmed broadband internet access by the convention people. Its a hotel connection so we will bring our 'backup Internet on a stick' with us because you never know. I am hoping I can set up a temporary WIFI so the audience can join but not sure.
Would it be useful to use this forum as the primary way of communication?
Again, thanks in advance.
]]>I still have saved your email about our first contact . Would be great to be part of this cool project.
Cheers Heinz
Cheers Cyndy
]]>I am also a full time lecturer (Uni of Ballarat Australia) and I am currently working on a peer (student + retired mentors) to peer multi media literacy project. It also includes student/teacher mentoring as we found that a lack of teacher media/multiliteracy skills really slows the potential use of ePortfolios.
We are also looking at ePortfolios for pre-schoolers which is pretty exciting. Anyway would be happy to help if needed. Regards, Ian
]]>A collegue and myself will be presenting at our annual regional teacher convention on February 18th, 13:00 - 14:15 Mountain Standart Time. The title of our presentation is 'Mahara: An Eportfolio with Bite!'
Lena and myself have been using Mahara for 5 month now and would like to inspire others to do so as well.
We thought it would be nice to have an informal Skype call-in with Mahara users and developers from accross the globe. We are interested in how others use Mahara, what their experiences are, where they think future directions will lead to etc.
This is meant to be a very informal chat. We would provide you with a set of questions well in advance.
It would be great if a few people would respond. Between myself and Lena we can communicate in English, German and French but we could arrange for a number of other languages to have interpreters for.
Thanks so much,
Dirk