Mahara

Well, I have finally finished my E-Portfolio!

At first I found Mahara rather daunting, especially hearing people talk about all the things that could be done with it. I had built up an image in my mind that it was going to be complicated and difficult to use.

However, after playing around with the program a few times, and once I opened my first view, I soon found it to be a lot easier than expected. In fact, I became excited by the program and really began having fun uploading new documents and files. It was so straightforward to be able to display YouTube video’s on my view, and upload word documents. I now know how to link RSS feeds to web pages, and it is so simple it almost makes me wonder how I hadn’t figured it out before.

Unfortunately, at this stage I do not have a class with which to carry out the Kitchen Garden Unit I had planned, however I really look forward to finding a class in the future that I will be able to implement the learning activities with. The prospect of using the ICT's that I have planned for this assessment task is quite exciting for me, and I find it difficult to understand why so many modern schools are still reluctant to use many of these technologies.

I’m really quite pleased and proud of all that I have learnt through this course, and yet, slightly overwhelmed at the knowledge that there are still so many hundreds, even thousands, of educational internet programs and sites that I am yet to discover.