Here’s a quick report on the Mahara UK 2010 conference. I was making Twitter notes, as I went along and I’m not sure, there’s much more to add. Here they are in reverse chronological order:
- Started keeping a list of interesting sites mentioned at #maharauk10 on http://delicious.com/tag/maharauk10. Please add yours.
- RT @donpresant: Newham College: video “elevator speech” became very popular…viraled out from one student #maharauk10 #Mahara
- Community features of Mahara create implementation difficulties for secondary schools who worry about e-safety. #maharauk10
- #Google gives us 6GB free email storage knowing most people won’t use it but only 1GB free photo storage knowing most people will. #edtech
- Institutions need a change in philosophy to see themselves as part of an open community of practice to help embrace eportfolios. #maharauk10
- RT @donpresant Newham’s Mahara home page at http://new-space.newham.ac.uk/ with icons that can be used by all re Phil Butler of ULCC #maharauk10
- Is it time to retire paper CVs? How can we make employers at all levels take online eportfolios into account when hiring? #maharauk10
- @maharame Would love to be part of the beta testing on the Mahara Android app. #maharauk10
- RT @samwisemoss: RT @maharame: #maharauk10 mahara.me at mahara conference 2010
- Thanks to TDM for giving Android some love with a Mahara App. #maharauk10 http://twitpic.com/25spgr http://twitpic.com/25sq3q
- Examples of Mahara views created by disaffected learners. #maharauk10 http://twitpic.com/25sn1k http://twitpic.com/25snmu
- Liked RCA presentation on using Mahara for sharing results of research #maharauk10
- Ditto: RT @samwisemoss: for @markwoodger Does anyone know if a plugin is currently being designed for CPD hr logging in #mahara? #maharauk10
- RT @donpresant Solent developing a project working with Catalyst Mahara Lite to improve accessibility-phone-in audio? email? sounds interesting #maharauk10
- about 20 hours ago via web
- Staff perspective on Mahara at Southampton Solent #maharauk10 http://twitpic.com/25sce3
- http://twitpic.com/25s92q “academic on a stick” from Southampton Solent university at #maharauk10
- RT @samwisemoss: https://launchpad.net/mahara #maharauk10
- Great to be reminded of open source principles at #maharauk10 http://twitpic.com/25s66q All too rare at #foss gatherings.
- Coming up in Mahara 1.3+ #maharauk10 http://twitpic.com/25s3tc http://twitpic.com/25s3ye http://twitpic.com/25s4ah http://twitpic.com/25s4mf
- RT @donpresant: JISC, University of Glasgow, CLEO have contributed to Mahara, re Leap 2A and other aspects #maharauk10
- Mahara project structure. http://twitpic.com/25s1f2 #maharauk10
- RT @donpresant: RGU provided #Mahara templates to help students in Fast Forward programs prepare reports on outcomes #maharauk10
- Lesson for conference organizers that even Steve Jobs had to learn: don’t put presenters & participants on the same wifi. #maharauk10
- “What’s good about using Mahara is that it doesn’t feel like learning.” #maharauk10
- Mahara provided positive experiences that kept an exoffender from going back to prison. #maharauk10
- “Mahara is different because nobody makes you do it.” #maharauk10
- RT @dajan: #maharauk10 The Foyer Federation http://my-nav.net. Mahara and Moodle integration case study
- Eportfolio presented at #maharauk10 http://twitgoo.com/18p1rd L: http://is.gd/duaMB
- We use eportfolios to build rich CVs for both students and practitioners but employers only look at paper. #maharauk10
- UK Maharacon tradition of bad to no wifi continues at #maharauk10
- Students don’t like Mahara because it duplicates the functionality of Facebook. Teachers don’t like it because it looks like it. #maharauk10
- Lots of barriers to eportfolio implementation being identified at #maharauk10
- RT @donpresant: JISC governannce toolkit for #eportfolio #maharauk10 www.jisc.ac.uk/eportfolio or http://bit.ly/7b3ut
- RT @jaxstarr: Lisa Gray from JISC says ePortfolios are a genre – a set of activities #maharauk10
- “There needs to one e portfolio for life.” #maharauk10
- Arrived late at #maharauk10 (@ Westminster Kingsway College) http://4sq.com/4KPXb6
