managing your public domain cv 1: why mahara?

1. What is Mahara?

Managing Your Public Domain CV Why Mahara?

Jon Curwin

Business School

Michael Schmidt

Centre for Academic Success

Poster Series

No. 1 of 6

• describe the skills you have and employers will value

• keep a record of your achievements

• create electronic pages to showcase your skills

• create your own ePortfolio webpage (LinkedIn can connect to this)

• For more ideas visit: https://mahara.org/

Use

Mahara to:

6. What Next?

Jon Curwin

Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow

Business School

Jon.Curwin@bcu.ac.uk

Michael Schmidt

Academic Skills Development Tutor

Centre for Academic Success

Michael.Schmidt@bcu.ac.uk

How to contact us:

Mahara is an open source ePortfolio and

social networking system

• An ePortfolio is a collection of materials, including text and images, that can evidence achievement to date, present an audit of current skills and outline plans for the future.

• Mahara allows the individual to articulate their knowledge and skills, collate files of evidence and build electronic pages securely behind a password protected system. The user can control access to these electronic pages.

• Mahara also offers a range of other features including blogging, group formation and linkage to Moodle

Your content is always safe behind your password unless

you choose to give access.

• Let Mahara guide your resume building e.g. you will find sections on education, employment, skills and interests. You can always review and revise in the future.

• Try using a range of materials e.g. Excel spreadsheets, Images, PowerPoint presentations, Video. You can always delete a file.

• Try some of the features like making a collection of pages, forming your own group or making a plan for the future.

3. Adding Content

Source: http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.4/intro/introduction.html

I am certain the

Mahara experience

made a difference to

my successful job

application.

2. What can Mahara do for You?

Provides an easy way

• To capture your thoughts on your

skills and ability

• To produce an electronic page to

showcase your skills to a potential

employer

• To deliver an assignment or

reflective learning journal to your

tutor

• To produce an electronic page for

friends and family

Ninis,Nancy MBA September,2011

An Example of a

Student Page

Source: http://manual.mahara.org/en/1.4/intro/introduction.html

The diagram below of example artefacts, pages and

groups illustrates how content in Mahara can be shared

and reused in different contexts and for different

audiences.

4. Sharing Content

5. Benefits and Limitations

Christa Appleton: eLearning Advisor Higher Education,

JISC Regional Support Centre West Midlands

Students learn by doing

and reflecting, developing

digital literacy and other

skills pertinent to

employment as they

progress

Mahara aims to move

learning from passive

to active

Mahara is a good tool provided

students engage with it,

meaning training and examples

of how others have used

Mahara is essential at the right

time to inspire new users

Mahara can help provide that

first contact and memorable

good impression so difficult to

achieve with a paper CV.