Create Online Learning Communities And Social Networks With New Book From Packt

Feb. 16, 2010 - PRLog -- Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's Guide is a new book from Packt that is aimed at helping students, teachers and professionals create and host educational and professional e-portfolios and personalized learning communities. Written by four experts from TDM Ltd., this book will help users develop feature-rich electronic portfolios such as digital repository of journals, presentations, reports, images, and videos etc.

Mahara is a user-centered environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. These views help you display your artifacts – text files, spreadsheets, images, and videos – in a way you choose and to the people you want. You can also create online communities and social networks through groups, blogs, and forums.

Utilizing this book, users will be introduced to the exciting features of the Mahara framework that will help them setup a customized digital portfolio and display their artifacts in a preferred way. They will also learn to create folders and upload multiple files such as journals, project documents, pictures, and videos and share them with their selected friends by setting up permissions.

Users will learn to create blogs, forums and web pages entirely from scratch and customize or administer them for flexibility or control. They will be able to receive public and private feedback on their pictures, videos, and articles enabling them to connect with other Mahara users and socialize. Customizing and administrating the Mahara site to fit the user’s preferences using a number of configuration settings will also be a valuable lesson taken from the book.

Students, teachers and professionals who want to maintain online documentation, set up an e-portfolio and share their journals and projects respectively will find this book useful. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/mahara-1-2-e-portfolios-beginners...