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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia

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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia

Overview of this book

In today's world, multimedia can provide a more engaging experience for learners. You can embed your own audio, link to pages off-site, or pull a YouTube video into your course. You can use feature-rich quizzes that allow you to assess your students, or provide them with tools and feedback to test their own knowledge. All these require standard procedures and cutting-edge tools. Selecting tools to make multimedia integration in Moodle faster, simpler, and more precise is not child's play. This book provides you with everything you need to include sound, video, animation, and more in your Moodle courses. You'll develop Moodle courses that you are proud of, and that your students enjoy. This book covers integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. It will take you through these elements in detail where you will learn how to create, edit, and integrate these elements into Moodle. The book is written around the design of an online course called "Music for Everyday Life" using Moodle, where teachers and students create, share, and discuss multimedia elements. You will also learn how to use Web 2.0 tools to create images, audio, and video and then we will take a look at the web applications that allow easy creation, collaboration, and sharing of multimedia elements. Finally, you will learn how to interact with students in real-time using a particular online phone service and a desktop sharing application.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Multimedia
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we focused on video production and editing, looking at different ways of using these in Moodle. We started by looking at the basics of video formats, places to find free video online, followed by ways of downloading videos from YouTube and TeacherTube. We then looked at ways of extracting DVD selections for later editing, and how to create photo stories, screencasts, an online TV station, and a stop motion video. Exploring Mogulus Studio was a good introduction to online based software (sometimes called webware), and in the next chapter, on Web 2.0 tools and other multimedia forms, we will focus on the kind of tools that are very common these days. This concept, of the Web as an Operating System and Web 2.0 tools as social applications, can be a nice metaphor for learning, and can extend Moodle's possibilities by giving students more tools for creating content, and a space to reflect, discuss, and assess these creations.