This is how easy it gets with Mahara and Moodle. <br><br>When a student gets ready to upload an assignment, resource etc to Moodle then there is an option to also add the object to their Mahara ePortfolio. Their classes may come and go each year . but they get to keep and manage their ePortfolio throughout their life at the college with complete control over how they use, adapt and skin it.<br>
<br>It makes a lot of sense when you think about Moodle this way, rather than try to be all things to all people .. this is where you tie third party applications into it (supporting single sign-in etc.) Here is a cool 9 min video that will walk you this process and explain how Mahara works.<br>
<a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=2a3I5xj6k5s">http://au.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=2a3I5xj6k5s</a><br><br>All up, it just uses the same PHP and MySQL tools that Moodle uses and Kevork teaches in his cool text book. We are building our Mahara server next week and it will be fun. <br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/4 Ros Meadows <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ros.meadows@gmail.com">ros.meadows@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Calibri">Thanks Stephen, I have looked at mahara before
(quite a while ago) but was not aware it could be used within moodle.<br>
I shall investigate and let you know how it goes.<br>
Cheers <br>
Ros<br>
BentleighSC<br>
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Stephen Digby wrote:
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<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Suggest
Mahara <a href="http://www.mahara.org" target="_blank">www.mahara.org</a>
as it is open source
development supported by the NZ government and able to be integrated
into many
LMS systems including moodle.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">They
are all quite complicated.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If
you want something simpler, there is a moodle portfolio module that
just lets students
maintain editable text fields online (I use it to allow students to
manage
their goals and to extract some of their goals in bulk for insertion
into our markbook
reports</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Even
simpler is to give students control of their own website within your
network,
allowing them a 'free form" eportfolio that is completely portable
to a memory device when they leave school.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: windowtext;" lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Ros Meadows<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 4 December 2008 10:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Moodle] elearning portfolios in moodle</span></p>
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</div><p><span>Has anyone
had any experience with any of the elearning portfolio modules.<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
I searched "portfolio" and came up with 3 - Exabis, Simple and SPDC<br>
<br>
Has anyone used any of these, or does the blog work just as well?<br>
Any recommendations would be great<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
RosM<br>
Bentleigh SC<br>
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