A question that some of my students ask me very often is, why should they start creating an ePortfolio? Grade 9th students are introduced in my School to collect evidences of their achievements and competencies and grab them in a personal account in the School ePortfolio. After filling up the usual profile fields they are …
Tomorrow night will be the due date for my students to submit a Lab Report created in Mahara. I told them that I was not going to accept reports modified after the due date but I hadn’t realized that Mahara pages don’t show last update information so I had to hack the code to get …
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Some days ago we moved our Mahara 1.7.2 database (MySQL) to a new machine to separte both web and database servers. Some days later we performed and upgrade to 1.8.1 and, after sorting out some issues related to collation, everything seemed to run as it was expected but, as I tried to clean my inbox …
Today I upgraded our Mahara site from version 1.7.2 to 1.8.1 (current version). What it was expected to be an easy procedure turned out to a trouble due to a database (MySQL) collation issue. Below are the details: After doing all backups as it’s required I downloaded and unzip the new version to perform the …
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The last three weeks of October were frightful due to a series of incidents affecting the Moodle server of my School. Randomly server crashes and a set of strange behaviours using Moodle led me, as admin, to a stressing weeks. That’s way I’m goin to collect all the incidents and write a post called Moodle …
Hoy jueves, 26 de septiembre hice una presentación de Moodle a un grupo de 12 profesores que asistieron a la jornada gratuita organizada por la Fundación ObraSocialNCG en Vigo. Esta jornada fue previa al comienzo de los próximos cursos de Moodle para docentes que impartiré próximamente en colaboración con la Fundación ObraSocialNCG. El grupo de …
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Along course 2012-2013 I taught two main subjects: Biology-Geology and Physics-Chemistry. I had four groups from grade 9th (3º ESO) and two groups from grade 10th (4º ESO). The four groups of grade 9th were divided into two biligual groups (English language) and two non-biligual groups (Spanish and Galician languague). The full picture is: Grade …
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My School is planning for the next course to perform an experiment based on the use of ePortfolios. In the Spanish Educational System exists in grade 7th a subject called ‘Proyecto interdisciplinar‘ literally translated into English as ‘Interdisciplinary Project’ and commonly known as PI. The School plan for this one-hour-a-week subject is to introduce students in the …