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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 activities that we can perform by using Moodle and some Web 2.0 tools. The objective was to show how this integration can open several possibilities for teaching and learning, providing free applications where teachers and students can create their own multimedia works, and then embed them in Moodle for instruction, discussion, or assessment. We created interactive floor plans, timelines, maps, online presentations, and gadgets, to represent data and mind maps. We also saw the possibilities of having collaboration in the construction of these multimedia works, as most Web 2.0 tools have a standard option to create a collective work with others. But to achieve this, we need better communication and assessment tools to complement the ones provided by Moodle, something we will see in the following chapters.