How to understand Mahara and our e-portfolio...

Mahara was a little confusing to set up initially but its potential for life long learning for both students and teachers is huge. You can store your resumes and all your certificates on there to have easy access to them when applying for jobs. Also it can be used as a storage and reference site for teacher portfolios, storing resources, lesson plans, favourite websites, documents sourced from schools etc. For students it can be similar in that could scan their report cards and school photos, assignments etc into Mahara for safe keeping and also for reference of applying for jobs or university. You can keep up to date with RSS feeds of your favourite news station or journal, and all this can be kept private, allowing you to choose you views it and for how long.