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Mahara: What the &$%# is it?
Presented by Aaron Wells, Catalyst IT // 26th March 2015Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0
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About Catalyst
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Aaron Wells (Me)
@AaronTheMad
Mahara (My job)
@MaharaProject
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Mahara: What the &$%# is it?
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Mahara: the facts● An open-source ePortfolio for education● Born in NZ in 2006, for a consortium of NZ universities● Catalyst Mahara team is “Mahara HQ”
– Releases security updates
– Maintains most project infrastructure
● Significant code contributions from a global open source community
– Translated by the community into 30 languages
● 300 sites worldwide that volunteer usage data back to mahara.org
– With over 1 million users between them
.school.nz
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What the &$%# is an ePortfolio?“Mahara is a fully featured web application to build your electronic portfolio. You can create journals, upload files, embed social media resources from the web and collaborate with other users in groups.”
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My definition
ePortfolio: (noun) A multi-user content management system.
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Mahara's features in outline
● Users create “Pages”, i.e. webpages● Managing, and creating the content that goes in those webpages
– Images
– Text
– Videos
– Blogs
– Etc...
● Pages can be grouped into “Collections”, i.e. mini-websites● Social network functionality to let users collaborate and share
content
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What the &$%# is it good for?
The ePortfolio replaces the “snail-portfolio”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/madame_furie/2467902183
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Your gateway to the magical world of getting involved with Mahara:
The Mahara community website:
https://mahara.org
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Catalyst Clients
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Open Source Technologies