About e-Portfolios and Mahara

Mahara

UCPortfolio (Mahara) is a fantatsic portfolio tool especially if you are looking to use something supported by UC and UC branded. It also offers a secure "walled garden" environment where individuals, classes and other groups can create portfolio views, discuss various topics, and share files, without being on public display. However when needed, portfolios can also be made public, or made available to select members of the public indefinitely or for a set period of time.

People are also using other systems as ePortfolios because they offer various other affordances. Below you will find documented use cases of the various systems people use along with why and how they are used. If you have others please let TLC know and we will document the system and use case.

Other systems that can be used as portfolios and why

System	Discipline(s) using	Reason for using	Contact for info
Microsoft Live/Skydrive	Nursing, Midwifery	This Live365 environment already provides Student Email so it is familar to many students. It also includes: 25Gig personal file storage space per student with sharing options online document creation/ sharing/collaboration features iPhone/iPod/iPad integration. Midwifery are moving from a paper based portfolio to an electronic version in order to capture the affordances of online storage and sharing capabilities Skydrive offers reduce logistics around transporting heavy folders from home/university/work/accrediting body cost of paper, printing and other limitations of paper based portfolios. Other benefits include: Students can keep their e-portfolio long term because Alumni retain access to the Skydrive environment (Microsoft provide this ongoing access). Students will be able to access their protfolio online from any location with online access. Accrediation bodies can access the portfolio of student work electronically from their offices rather than having boxes of folders transported to them and then have to transport them back to the student. Please Note: Patient notes are de-identified prior to uploading to Skydrive.	Moyra Lewis, TLC (Shane Nuessler) or ITM (ServiceDesk)
http://pool.abc.net.au	Digtial Design and Media Arts	Main Purpose The main purpose is to allow the construction of a portfolio of digital work in a temporal format (as opposed to a static form like a graphic design or architecture portfolio) that can be readily distributed online. To enable creative collaboration on a large scale. comments can come any member of ABCPool (public are informed the work is by students so comments are more reasonable). Public work has a broader audience than the teaching staff - students can learn from feedback by other experts in the field. Group Work (ABC Pool) is Designed to support sharing of media and collaborative work on projects which suits the group work strategies used in the unit. Persistent Once a student leaves the course their work will remain on ABC Pool and they will be able to show others for as long as ABCPool remains as a service. Other benefits Plagiarism is impossible Public visibility defeats plagiarism in a digitally reproducible medium. ABCPool has Creative Commons embedded in the upload process. Students become aware of licensing through responsibility for management of their own content, visibility and scrutiny of claims, ad accountability for infringements. Social constuctivism. Many of the Felix the cat cartoons are similar. Students have looked at the work of their peers and emulated those that they admire. I call this learning rather than copying. They do not have access to the source files just the rendered version. It would be plagiarism if it were an exact copy. However everything is date stamped down to the second it was submitted so there is identifiability of the original upload. Here is a link to the public portfolios in the Sound Design unit this semester on ABC Pool. http://pool.abc.net.au/projects/behind-waterfall/project/showcase	Stephen Barrass

System

Discipline(s) using

Reason for using

Contact for info

Microsoft Live/Skydrive

Nursing, Midwifery

This Live365 environment already provides Student Email so it is familar to many students. It also includes:

25Gig personal file storage space per student with sharing options
online document creation/ sharing/collaboration features
iPhone/iPod/iPad integration.

Midwifery are moving from a paper based portfolio to an electronic version in order to

capture the affordances of online storage and sharing capabilities Skydrive offers
reduce logistics around transporting heavy folders from home/university/work/accrediting body
cost of paper, printing and
other limitations of paper based portfolios.

Other benefits include:

Students can keep their e-portfolio long term because Alumni retain access to the Skydrive environment (Microsoft provide this ongoing access).

Students will be able to access their protfolio online from any location with online access.

Accrediation bodies can access the portfolio of student work electronically from their offices rather than having boxes of folders transported to them and then have to transport them back to the student.

Please Note: Patient notes are de-identified prior to uploading to Skydrive.

Moyra Lewis, TLC (Shane Nuessler) or ITM (ServiceDesk)

http://pool.abc.net.au

Digtial Design and Media Arts

Main Purpose

The main purpose is to allow the construction of a portfolio of digital work in a temporal format (as opposed to a static form like a graphic design or architecture portfolio) that can be readily distributed online.

To enable creative collaboration on a large scale.

comments can come any member of ABCPool (public are informed the work is by students so comments are more reasonable).
Public work has a broader audience than the teaching staff - students can learn from feedback by other experts in the field.

Group Work

(ABC Pool) is Designed to support sharing of media and collaborative work on projects which suits the group work strategies used in the unit.

Persistent

Once a student leaves the course their work will remain on ABC Pool and they will be able to show others for as long as ABCPool remains as a service.

Other benefits

Plagiarism is impossible

Public visibility defeats plagiarism in a digitally reproducible medium.

ABCPool has Creative Commons embedded in the upload process.

Students become aware of licensing through responsibility for management of their own content, visibility and scrutiny of claims, ad accountability for infringements.

Social constuctivism.

Many of the Felix the cat cartoons are similar. Students have looked at the work of their peers and emulated those that they admire. I call this learning rather than copying. They do not have access to the source files just the rendered version. It would be plagiarism if it were an exact copy. However everything is date stamped down to the second it was submitted so there is identifiability of the original upload.

Here is a link to the public portfolios in the Sound Design unit this semester on ABC Pool.

http://pool.abc.net.au/projects/behind-waterfall/project/showcase

Stephen Barrass

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