Mahara

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Well, finally got started with Mahara this week. Started by adding a Mahara install to my virtual space and playing around with the theme. Probably doing things backwards again first playing with the theme then the content.

Plan on slowly migrating the wordpress pages and wordpress blogs, that I was previously using, to a variety of Mahara views. Hopefully, this will give me some insight on how I might integrate Mahara into my classes next year. I am envisioning a math portfolio but we shall see.

This will be a bit different than my current trial with a course based portfolio. That portfolio is using a WordPressmu site as a CMS that also aggregates all of my student writing. With each assignment they complete I can select exemplary work and as such create a course based portfolio. I have written about this before but this I believe is the final form (for this week at least).