Introduction: Many schools have been asking how they can learn more about MyPortfolio and get started in using it. A few of us put our heads together and decided to create a marketplace where schools requesting taster / introductory sessions can link up with those willing to offer these sessions. There is also a link to the guidelines we as a community think should apply to these sessions.

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What to expect: A MyPortfolio Taster is a short (90 minutes) introduction to Mahara and specifically the hosted service www.myportfolio.school.nz. This a free professional development workshop for NZ teachers designed to help them get started with ePortfolios using Mahara.

Conditions: these are not sessions for an entire school (to get their PD), but each session should be attended by ICT leaders, teachers, principals, DPs etc. from at least 3 schools so that they can then take their experiences back to their own schools and continue the discussion.

Facilitators: An experienced MyPortfolio user will visit your school / cluster and facilitate this face-to-face session.

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Outcomes:
By the end of the session each attendee will have:

• Started their own ePortfolio
• Understood what an ePortfolio is and why would you use one?
• Understood how to make an ePortfolio page and have an idea of what to put into it?
• Understand how to use multimedia in a page? (image, audio and video)
• Understand how to share my page with others?

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• Pete Potter. Used MyPortfolio for 18 months and trained other teachers locally. peterpotter@xtra.co.nz
• Heath Sawyer, Edconnect in Hamilton, using MyPortfolio. heath@edconnect.co.nz
• Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Tauranga, using MyPortfolio with language teachers. pascale.hyboudperon@gmail.com
• Paul Seiler, uses, promotes and guides the direction of MyPortfolio for schools. heugumper@gmail.com
• Mark Osborne, Albany Senior High School, mosborne@ashs.school.nz. Experienced user.
• Carolyn Stuart, Tawa Intermediate School, carolyn@tawaint.school.nz. Experienced user individually and at school level
• Kristina Hoeppner, Catalyst IT. kristina@catalyst.net.nz. Actively engaged in the Mahara community as part of the release team of the software, done MyPortfolio training sessions with tertiary students and teachers
• Ronja Skandera, Hamilton Girls' High School, ronja.skandera@gmail.com
• Jacqui Land, Papanui High School, lnj@papanui.school.nz Fairly experienced user.