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PhD thesis on "ePortfolios in the professional development at university" by Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann

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Overview: This unit was developed to promote employability skills by preparing students for two, two-week work placements. The unit aimed to support and challenge the students to identify the best work placement opportunities that fulfil their future career objectives. The unit aimed to build up confidence in students so they could approach suitable organisations, and produce the materials for applications, such as CVs, covering letters and telephone skills. The students would use myPortfolio (Mahara) to showcase and enhance their digital profile. The sessions were delivered in workshop format to maximise on the opportunity for participation and engagement and consisted of a combination of lecturer-led sessions, Careers Advisory sessions & tutorials, and IT workshops with members of the Learning Technologies team.

Now that you have registered as a Foliospaces user, the first screen that you see is the logged in Home page. It looks like the image below. Logged in Home page Look at the buttons at the top of the page shown in the image above. Clicking home will always take you back to this logged in home page. Clicking Logout will finish your foliospaces session. The other buttons are for portfolio building (Profile and My Portfolio), collaboration (Groups) and personal settings (Settings). When setting up a page a good place to start is the Profile tab. You can write a paragraph about yourself here. Profile Next insert an image of yourself or an icon. You may upload up to five profile icons here, and choose one to be displayed as your default icon at any one time. Your icons must be between 16x16 and 1024x1024 pixels in size. Profile Image Having set up your profile, you may now wish to set up your Resume page depending on your needs, or you may wish to set it up later. The Resume page, Skills and Goals all relate to each other. The other button is the Edit profile Page which allows you to configure the layout of the page. The profile page can be configured as a View (see the My Portfolio section on Views) which allows for maximum flexibility and customisation.

I'm Karen a professor at George Brown College in Toronto Canada. I love everything tech and ed. I teach courses like Psychology of Consumer Behaviour, Visual Communications and Soap, Sex & Cigarettes: A Cultural History of Advertising. I'm also partially seconded to our Learning Innovations and Academic Development (LIAD) to help with training faculty in educational technology and I am also the Online Coordinator for the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences at my college. BSc in Psychology and Englsih from the University of Toronto, Master of Education: Curriculum Technology and Education Reform, University of Illinois-Urbana 2011.

by Heinz Krettek; article in Mahara Newsletter Vol. 1, Issue 1, April 2011

e-portfolio twins: videos by students at PH St. Gallen in Switzerland in German and English. The English version is linked in the text under "englischsprachige Fassung" via http://twitter.com/uk63/statuses/49815777926320128 (originally tweeted by @khimspl)

I came across this useful video by University of St. Gallen (via @anitsirk on Twitter) explaining the different ways they are using Mahara.

Many Mahara dev's now publish their plugins on Gitorius. Check out some the great plugins available here.

"how to use mahara" in french by Dominique Alain JAN.

web site "for the 2010-07 version of Leap2A specification for e-portfolio interoperability and portability, covering learner owned information"

PortfolioUP is an image (and now video) uploader developed by Brightcookie for Mahara users. Images (and now videos!) are loaded directly from a learner's mobile device into their 'My Portfolio > My Files' directory in Mahara.