27 January 2011, 16:05

I will try to get permission and URLs from students and faculty who are using Mahara at Plymouth.  Sharing K-12 views gets a little more tricky (as you know).  We do have a web page with video we recorded at our statewide ePortfolio day. There are a number of presenters who talk about how they are using Mahara. 

http://plymouth.edu/online/events/nhfocus_2010.html

28 January 2011, 14:04

We have done a pilot project with Mahara (connected via SSO to our Moodle) with 11th grade students. We have Mahara/Moodle for our Middle and High School students. We are a small district in California with around 1500 total students 6-12)

Student projects can be found here

http://www.english2010.com

Blog post about project

http://cytochromec.net/blog/2010/05/reflections-on-eportfolios/

We are now getting use in art classes and will start rolling it out to a larger group of English students.

28 January 2011, 19:45

This is awesome

A big thank you to you and your students for sharing.  We are starting with Mahara as well and examples are so great to have because I found students don't really understand what it's for at first.

Richard Jones
The Southport School
Queensland
Australia

29 January 2011, 1:58

Thank you Colin for sharing this here.

Do you accept I quote from your blog and show your students' work with Mahara in conferences and Mahara advocacy presentations ?

Cheers,

-dajan

07 February 2011, 12:11

Hi Dajan,

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.

31 January 2011, 12:10

Some of our student projects, and a faculty project as well, can be seen here: http://www.plymouth.edu/online/learningtechnologies/mahara.html

We will be adding to this on a regular basis.

Ellen

31 January 2011, 16:01

Hello Ellen,

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

31 January 2011, 18:11

Yes, our alumni can keep their Mahara portfolios for life.

05 February 2011, 9:39

I work in a UK school with children aged from 11 to 16. While there seem to be a variety of ways Mahara can be useful to older students, I have only seen a few examples of using it with under 12s. I am currently trying to find ways to use Mahara with our 11 year olds and have posted my latest trials here -http://www.moodleblog.org/?p=435 It is still in its infancy, with students still learning the ICT and copyright skills needed but they are having lots of fun so far.

06 February 2011, 19:28

I look forward to hearing about your success with younger students.  Mahara presents a safe student centric space for web development skills, social networking (1.0) and practicing digital citizenship. 

I had much interest from primary grade teachers in New England in my presentations on Mahara last summer....