Could anyone tell me where it is?
Thanks in advance.
]]>Jonathan Mergy
Director of Technology
Lick-Wilmerding High School
Feel free to share any of the info I have posted and any of the student work. I will be using the links of other examples posted here to show my teachers to inspire them.
]]>Thank you for your reply. I keep my fingers crossed that your PhD topic about Mahara works out / is accepted. I'd love to hear more about it and see if I can help you if possible.
Regarding the Windows Live Plugin: Maybe it could be modified in such a way that it is only available to teachers so that only they see the block icon and can drag it into their portfolio views. Teachers can have institution staff rights on Mahara. You could ask Gregor, the plugin developer, what he thinks.
For the NZ site MyPortfolio, a hosted Mahara for NZ Schools, we have recently done a number of customisations that are almost entirely theme- and role-based. E.g. when you have the institution staff role, you see two different modes: One the regular MyPortfolio mode and the other an online moderation mode which has an entirely different theme, different default settings etc. It is like having two different Mahara installations rolled together in one. It was not trivial to do and we are not yet done with all the things we want to implement in the moderation mode, but the coming changes will most likely be more development oriented to expand the functionality and make existing things even more user friendly. We are in early stages in this project - schools are currently selected to participate in the trial, but it's already been exiting to see the changes. And a number of them have already made they way into Mahara 1.4, e.g. Shared Pages and Topics in the Group tab, the re-organization of the tabs and content in them, new / unified icons, cleaning up of code to make theming easier etc.
Cheers
Kristina
]]>Beyond the email on the MLE list and the video at http://plymouth.edu/online/events/nhfocus_2010.html (Thanks Ellen for sharing the link) I don't know anything of the portfolio use at the Oyster River Elementary School.
We could ask Danielle if she would like to present in a webinar (short presentation, long Q&A session). There were a lot of questions after her presentation that gave good insight into their work with Mahara.
We would just have to find a time that works for basically the entire world as we would have to see that the times are acceptable to the US, Europe and NZ where most active community members seem to be. If we get Asia in that would be great.
Cheers
Kristina
]]>I do hope this helps.
]]>Kristina, any ideas?
Paul.
]]>My K-12 examples are now limited as the school I was with over the last 4 years unexpectedly cut Mahara after I left: A huge deal for many young people who used Mahara and an issue to be reflected on. Luckily, I switched the Moodle-Mahara of the last year I was there to a hosted service and with permission have retained some examples:
Jordan (Age 14) Comparative Democracies Project: Disease and Malnutrition, and Comparative Religions Project: Quelling Desire
Katherine (Age 16) Free Me
A pilot project I lead away from the University setting is generating some promising work using Mahara as a cloud learning environment. We have struggled with project management applications for the students and have moved from 37 signals and Backpack to Project Foundry and now still up in the air.
A few Views for an integrated program of the Institute for Global Civic Culture called the North American Experience. Our Mahara site is here.
Jake (Age 15)
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I had much interest from primary grade teachers in New England in my presentations on Mahara last summer....
]]>Thanks for the link to the examples. That's great.
If I remember correctly from a tweet, Plymouth State also allows Alumni to keep their portfolio after graduation (250 MB). Is that still correct?
Cheers
Kristina
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