Time for action—uploading your profile icons
Let's get a few different profile icons online.
- Click the Profile submenu button called Profile Icons.
- Click Browse to find the profile icon you want to upload from your computer or USB stick (or wherever).
- Don't forget to add an Image Title for your profile icon before you click the upload button.
- You are allowed to upload up to five profile icons and you can delete any icon at any point. You will need to choose one of your icons as your default profile icon which should probably be a fairly sensible one. Janet Norman has already uploaded two profile icons:
What just happened?
You have just uploaded a profile icon to represent yourself in your Mahara site. As we saw in the Time for action section, Janet has uploaded two icons. One of these is an avatar of herself and the other is the company logo. She plans to use the company logo in places where she would like to appear more professional, whereas the avatar will be used more generally.
Tip
Make yourself an avatar!
An avatar is simply a character or cartoon representation of yourself. If you don't want a passport photograph as your profile icon, an avatar is a good alternative. There are many websites that help you create your own. A few of the most fun include the Simpsons Avatar Maker (http://www.simpsonsmovie.com), DoppelMe (http://www.doppelme.com), and Mr Picassohead (http://www.mrpicassohead.com).
Editing your resumé goals and skills
No longer will you need to trawl through ancient hard drives trying to find the resumé you last wrote five years ago. Instead, you can keep your resumé information within your Mahara system and update it when you make changes. How impressive will you look when you show your resumé to your prospective employer as a web page rather than on a piece of paper.
There are three tabs remaining in the profile submenu that allow us to add stuff to our site. The remaining things we can add are:
- Resumé information: You can record your career and educational achievements.
- Goals information: Here you can set ourselves personal, academic, and career-related targets for your future.
- Skills information: You can record for yourselves what you perceive to be your personal, academic, and work-related skills.
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