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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

Using slideshow to create a book


When I was in fourth grade, I wrote a marvelous little story about a fictional visit to "My Grandmother". I drew the pictures with colored pencils and wrote the text with a pen. I used crayons on purple construction paper to make a book cover, and stapled it all together. I still have a copy of the book. A great deal of our students' work is done with pencil and paper, but that does not mean it cannot become part of their permanent digital portfolio. This recipe will use the Slideshow block to create a digital booklet presenting various math problems that the student has worked on using pencil and paper.

This can be an ongoing project in that all of the images do not need to be taken and uploaded at the start. Instead, the book (slideshow) can be created with a minimal amount of images (even one will do). As new images are taken, they can easily be added to the slideshow.

Getting ready

You will need to create digital copies of the student's documents...