July 3, 2012, will stay in my mind for a very long time because it was my worst earthquake experience so far. I was looking forward to my virtual presentation at MaharaUK12 at 10:30 p.m. Just a few minutes into the presentation, I felt a little shaking and first didn’t think much of it as […]
My name is Kristina and I like writing documentation. That’s how I started my Pizza Thursday presentation at Catalyst today. And it’s true. With the right motivation and also good tools, it can be an enjoyable task. The tools I used for the Mahara user manual are: reStructured Text: text markup Shutter: Ubuntu screenshot software […]
Yesterday was ANZAC Day in New Zealand and it was flanked by two Mahara-related events for me: MUG (Mahara User Group) online meeting at 6 a.m. Eportfolios in focus webinar at 10 p.m. For both I was asked to give a presentation on new features in Mahara 1.5 which we released last week. The time […]
Last week, the German MoodleMoot 2012 took place in Münster. Sigi Jakob-Kühn organized the session entitled “Mahara-Netzwerk – Austauschworkshop für Akteure und Neugierige”. I was honored to have been asked by her to give a virtual presentation and be available for Q&A afterwards. Thankfully, Sigi could get a time slot that was not too bad […]
Over the last few months, a number of developers at Catalyst have been working on new features for Mahara. Version 1.4 was just released in mid-June and there is already a host of new features available. It’s amazing. As we were going to update MyPortfolio.school.nz for August 1, 2011, I decided to hand in a […]