1. ATS2020 tools and specifications
Students and Teachers in ATS2020 will work with the ePortfolio-Platform Mahara and the OneNote Class Notebook. Students can also use Office 365 in order to create artefacts. These artefacts can be later on be embedded into their Mahara ePortfolio or into the Office 365/OneNote environment. The following slides should give you an impression how we imagine this work. Additionally, please visit the portfolio page on User Support/Guidance material in order to find the newest guidance materials with detailed instructions (slides, screencasts, webinar recordings) how to work with Mahara and/or Office 365/One Note Class notebook.
Presentation: Tools and Technology for ATS2020 teachers and students
2. Mahara Learning Environment
While the presentation above was not held at the Trainers' Workshop in Krems, there was the activity "Create and edit ePortfolio pages, sharing and seeking feedback". As we were a bit rushed in time during the workshop you might like to re-do the page which you started at the workshop - maybe including your feedback on the workshop...
A further page supporting workshop activities collects all the tool guides created for Mahara (and Office 365/OneNote Class Notebook) we have created for ATS2020. We are provide you with your own "institution" in which you can experiment with user roles and much more.
Kristina Hoeppner, a key-figure from the Mahara community, explains Mahara for Moodle users at the iMoot 2014. Even if you do not use Moodle, it is an interesting apporoach to see an ePortfolio platform in comparison to a Learning Management System (LMS).
Andrea Ghoneim blogs about "Getting Started with Mahara". She offers a range of commented links and hints to best practice examples as well as Online-Tutorials.
A series of tutorials for ATS2020 trainers is provided via the page "ATS2020 User Support - Guides for Tools".
The Mahara user manual provided by the Mahara community is an extensive compendium about all features in Mahara.
Forecast - Mahara Development for ATS2020 (added 2015-11-25, adapted 2016-04-27): As some trainers already commented that they would like to see the look and feel of Mahara changed: Please find below a draft for a new starting page for Mahara for ATS2020. You can also customize pages yourself for your school/institution, which enables you to create your own starting page.
Mahara - work on a new entry page
Comments - WA4_MaharaOldNew.png
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Andrea Ghoneim
04 April 2016, 4:17 PM
Tom van den Broek commented here on Dec. 1, 2015: "I would make 1 topic of "i am following"".
I (Andrea) saw the comment only now. However, I think it is important to distinguish between "activities" (like assignment handed in for feedback) and "pages" or "people". Especially the "activities" will allow you to go through things you have to follow up with rather quicly. I am not even sure whether you suggestion can be solved technically. The only thing that will be possible: you do not need to have all these blocks of information shown on the starting page.
A last comment: to date, the starting page just shows an approach to what is being designed, the final product (still adaptable on basis yof suggestions) should be ready with the next update.
3. Office 365 Learning Environment
You can find attached the presentation used during the workshop as well as more resources and material.
O365 manual for teachers as used in EUfolio
https://eufolioresources.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/eufolio-office-365-eportfolio-user-guide.pdf
*** Links to MS documentations as provided by Oliver Zofic (Microsoft)***
As for education relevant website – please navigate here – where you have website that will walk you through
Office 365 for education: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office/default.aspx
Day in a life of a student: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/students/resources/default.aspx
Day in a life of a teacher: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/educators/teacher-resources/default.aspx
Information on school deployment:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office-365-deployment-resources/default.aspx
As well parts of O365 that we mentioned already:
- OneNote classroom creator: http://onenoteforteachers.com/
- Office MIX for teachers: http://www.mixforteachers.com/
- Sway: https://blogs.office.com/2015/05/04/sway-announces-office-365-and-languages/
All these links above provide a lot of documentation about office 365 and arranged in a consistent way – so it is super hard to extract only bits and pieces.
Full Office 365 service description can be found here (technical):
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-365-service-descriptions.aspx
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4. Discussion
Please continue discussing your experiences and wishes as well as unclear points in the ATS2020 Trainer Online Forum. Andrea Ghoneim will follow up and either reply or use the input to track development needs.
You can also use the feedback option below to place your comments.