For ATL 2016 winter conference https://altc.alt.ac.uk/online2016 Tuesday 6th December webinar

1. THINKING SPACES
MAHARA AS A “DOMAIN OF ONE’S OWN”

2. PURPOSE OF INSTITUTIONAL SPACES:
• PUSH MECHANISMS FOR ACCESS TO RESOURCES
• ALERTS, DEADLINES
• MASS AND INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM
TUTORS
• TESTS, LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• ONLINE SUBMISSION

3. WHERE CAN YOU GO TO THINK?
• REFLECTION WIDELY RECOGNISED AS IMPORTANT TO LEARNING
• NEED TO DEVELOP GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF DIGITAL SPACES
In building that personal cyberinfrastructure, students not
only would acquire crucial technical skills for their digital
lives but also would engage in work that provides richly
teachable moments ranging from multimodal writing to
information science, knowledge management, bibliographic
instruction, and social networking.

4. via @audreywatters @mburtis

5. WHY MAHARA?
• INTEGRATION WITH MOODLE
• USER OWNED SPACE
• PERMISSIONS AND SHARING CONTROLLED BY USER
This is a fascinating area to explore, and so important for the
future - it got me thinking about online spaces in ways I never
have done before. Really, it's incredible we don't think about
them that much, seeing as they play such a big role in our
lives.
(Student on WIHEA project)

6. WHAT IS MAHARA?
• OPEN SOURCE E-PORTFOLIO TOOL
• INTEGRATES WITH MOODLE
• INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF USERS
• ACTIVE USER GROUPS

8. “When I call for each of us to have a domain
of our own, I’m not really invoking
“ownership” … I am, I do confess, invoking
Virginia Woolf and the importance having the
space and safety and security (financially well
before technologically) to think and write and
be”.
Audrey Watters Hack Education