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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 looked at integrating multimedia elements into assessment activities in Moodle, such as quizzes, lessons, and assignments and we saw the particular case of how to add multiple choice multimedia answers to quizzes and lessons. We also considered two applications, Hot Potatoes and JClic, both of which are capable of not only producing different type of exercises such as crosswords or image puzzles, but also of facilitating the construction of quizzes. The activities created with these applications were later integrated in Moodle, in the first case using a dedicated activity into Moodle, and in the second by linking to the HTML file generated by JClic. Finally, we considered rubrics as an easy way of assessing multimedia works, considering some criteria that can be used to perform this task either by teachers or students. And as the assessment is already done, we are very close to the end!