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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Moodle is growing at a seemingly unstoppable rate. One of the key reasons for its popularity lies in its potential to extend with modules, thus making the site easier to administer, add new features, and completely change the way it looks. This book finds you the best Moodle modules, teaches you how to install them, and helps you to master their configuration.There are hundreds of Moodle modules available. Find out which you can trust and how to put them to work. This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing Moodle modules, thus making your learning website feature-rich. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platformThis book begins with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. Then, it moves to a very interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. Social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social team interactions with the virtual classroom. But the book doesn't end there, you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.The book ends with a chapter full of simple challenges such as adding educational games. This book is written to help you find modules that will be useful to you and your students, and to show examples of how these modules can be setup and used in teaching.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Searching for Tweets


Name

Twitter Search

Module Type

Block

Author

Kevin Hughes

Released

2010

Maintained

Actively

Languages

Catalan, English, Hebrew

Compliance

Good

Documentation

None

Errors

None displayed

Twitter is a popular system for micro-blogging. People can post short messages (or questions), and these messages can then be followed, searched, and viewed by anyone.

The Twitter Search block allows the results of a Twitter search to be displayed in a block.

Getting ready

The Twitter Search block requires the cURL library to be enabled. Information about the cURL library and how to enable it is provided in the initial chapter of this book.

Unlike most modules, the block code for this module is downloadable from the block author's Moodle site. In order to download the block, you will need to log into that Moodle site; guest access is sufficient.

The module is also packaged as a Tar file and zipped using gzip; if you are using Windows or Mac, you may need an alternate compression...