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Mahara UK 2012 - Southampton

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Vanguard Visions -  http://flic.kr/p/edthjg I've slacked in the whole blog updating process, my bad.. Well after an incredibly early start and getting stuck on the M25 for hours I made it to the Mahara UK2011 conference hosted at Southampton Solent. I managed to get there for the start of Philip Butler's session "E-Portfolios: Expanding in a Shrinking Landscape", as a side note I'll mention that I was also having a bash at using the cross platform note taking app Evernote. My colleague Aaron Burrell (@iaaronburrell) had mentioned it before but I was in one of those "Ugh, not another thing to register for" moments. However, I have an iPad for a reason right?! Philips session was a great insight into what ULCC had been up to and their input into Mahara being one of the first partners to get involved with the project. He demonstrated the transition of web technologies from past (Phil mentioned Web1) compared to latest Web2 (A term coined in 2004,