e portfolios in moodle and mahara
DESCRIPTION
Presentation at the SUNY CIT 2010 conference in PlattsburghTRANSCRIPT
Agenda
E-portfolio overviewPurchase College Moodle and MaharaExample portfoliosMoodle and Mahara hosting optionsAssignments in Moodle for portfoliosWorking with Mahara
Workshop goal: provide you experience working with Moodle and Mahara for course portfolios, with accounts you can explore beyond the workshop
What are we talking about?
Tools for students to showcase their work
Tools to support student learning
Tools for institutional data collection
Collect, Select, Reflect
List of products and services that can be used to support portfolio activity
Why e-portfolios?
Focus on student-centered active
learning
Advances in digital communication and
creation technologies
Accountability and assessment issues
Student employment issues
Why Moodle @ Purchase?
Focus on teaching & learning- Robust set of activities & resources- Add-on modules from the community- Moodle development pathway
Costs- No licensing costs- Similar support costs
Risk management- Risks of open source- Commercial products have different risks
Integration- Other systems- Web 2.0 world
Flexible open architecture
Communityhttp://moodle.org
Portfolios through Moodle assignments
My demo Moodle site at KeyToSchool:http://arphia.edumoot.com/"Portfolios in Moodle" course
Advanced Uploading of Files
Students can add multiple files, including delete and replace as needed to collect/select material that best represents their work. The Notes allows reflection about the material.
Grading view of the assignment
Quick grading view - access to student files and reflections, feedback and grade assignment, tie to Moodle gradebook
Student wiki portfolios in Moodle
Moodle Wiki activity allows student 'wikis' - individual web space where each student can create pages within course
Some options for free hosting
Sign up: https://www.keytoschool.com/member/signup.php
Mahara at Purchase, extending Moodle
Slower adoption so far, need to develop an eportfolio cultureMoodle as core, integrate other tools into it
Mahara overviewCollect, select, reflect and share (access control)
Resume building Social networking
Mahara profiles
All information private until it's shared in a specific viewStudents own their information
Mahara resume tools
Contact info, employment/education history, certifications, awards, publications, memberships - all granular information
Building and sharing a portfolio
Assembling artifactsFile uploadsBlog reflectionsExternal materials (web video, RSS feeds, etc)
Creating a viewDetermining the layoutAssembling and arranging portfolio components
Determining access controlsShare with individual user (e.g., instructor)Make public, generate unique URLShare with group (e.g., course group)Submit to a course group (freezes portfolio view)Creating templates
Managing files
Can display files or folders in portfoliosFile and folder descriptions during upload/editing can be useful for when materials are incorporated into portfolio views
Blogs - support for reflection
Can add whole blogs, recent posts or individual posts to portfolio views
Creating views: layout
Categories of building blocks for your portfolio viewsDrag and drop into columnsControls over number and widths of columns
Creating views: basic description
Creating views: access control
Individuals, groups, course groups, public, url-based accessTimed access control
Mahara accounts (a couple of sites I've found so far....)
http://www.foliospaces.com/
50 MB quota for filesNo course submission
http://myportfolio.ac.nz/
For consortium of NZ universitiesSign up with "Demo" institution1 GB quota for files