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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Course Conversion
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Do More with Embedding


In this chapter, we have been investigating embedding video and audio. When it comes to multimedia, we can certainly upload PowerPoint or Photostory (www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx) files. But these are Microsoft-specific, and Moodle users need the correct viewers installed on their computers. To overcome this problem, there are plenty of video and audio sharing websites to choose from—but remember to check that they are available to your students (and haven't been filtered out as being ‘unsuitable' by your institution's web filtering software). A popular photo sharing website (and alternative to Photostory) is Slide.com, which you can use to create an embeddable photo montage from uploaded images. Let's take a look at doing that now.

Picture Shows Using Slide.com

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Multimedia everywhere!

So far we have embedded multimedia in ‘web page' resources only. As you may have guessed, you can embed multimedia anywhere that uses...