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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

Creating an academic achievements page


You might want to include your unofficial transcript on a page that showcases your academic accomplishments. This page might include links to a collection of work, and writing samples. It should also include your academic awards (even if these are also listed in your résumé).

In this recipe, we will add your academic awards and achievements to your portfolio, we'll create a folder for writing samples, and we'll build a page that showcases your academic accomplishments.

Getting ready

Follow the steps in the Using HTML to create your unofficial transcript recipe; do not, however, add it to a page (just skip that part).

In creating the following recipe, we will add a Collection called "Senior Project". Your collection might be some other project, just a group of pages that were created for various academic purposes, or you might not even have a collection. If you do not have a collection you can skip that part. If you want to include a collection of...