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Mahara 1.4 Cookbook

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Mahara 1.4 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Mahara is an e-portfolio system that allows you to build dynamic and engaging portfolios in no time. Use Mahara when applying for jobs, creating portfolios for certification and accreditation, for classroom projects, book reviews, to create your own social network and much more. This book will show you the many different ways in which you can use Mahara, and how to exploit the various components of Mahara. The Mahara 1.4 Cookbook will introduce you to features you probably have not explored, and show you how to use them in ways you probably had not considered. The book also provides guidance in the use of Gimp, Picasa, Audacity, Word and other programs that can be used to create artifacts. It will provide you with techniques for creating everything from dynamic and engaging web pages to complete projects, interactive groups, educational templates, and professional resume packages. By exploring the recipes in this book, you will learn how to use each of the various blocks and content areas including the resume sections, Journals, and plans. You will learn how to archive a portfolio, and set access levels. We will build an art gallery, a newspaper, use groups for collaboration and assessment, and use the Collections feature to build complex layered portfolios. You will also find recipes for building templates for standards-based report cards and teacher certification. The book is packed with ideas from the simple to the extremely advanced, but each idea is supported with step-by-step instructions that will make all of them seem easy.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mahara 1.4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

A poetry chapbook


As you've already seen, there are a number of ways that artifacts can be stored and shared in Mahara. In this recipe, we will create a poetry chapbook (which is simply a small book) using the poetry pages you may have created using the previous recipe.

Note

Though the term chapbook usually refers to a pocket-sized book, we're kind of going to stretch the meaning a bit here when we refer to this digital book with a style similar to a paperback poetry book you might find in a local bookstore.

Getting ready

Using the recipe for poetry pages (earlier in this chapter), create all the Pages (pages) of your chapbook; you'll need to group them into a collection (a little like bookbinding). Then, we will create a cover page and table of contents. We'll use the built-in navigation for Collections, but the There's more... section will provide you with the option of creating links at the bottom of each page to take readers through the book page-by-page.

Let's begin and create our collection...