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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

Summary


In this chapter, we turned our courses into a truly multimedia experience:

  • It was easy to include multimedia in our courses. Moodle can even embed audio and video into web pages for us—as long as our Admin has got that set up properly.

  • Embedding videos from YouTube and TeacherTube was simple, using the fragments of web page code they provide. You'll have to make sure that your students will also have access to any website that you embed videos from, though.

  • Multimedia doesn't just stop at videos and audio. We ended the chapter by including a photo montage in the course using Slide.com. I even had music playing in the background as my montage played—but you'll have to take my word for that!

There has been a lot of discussion in this chapter about teachers using the Internet to store content. It is worthwhile mentioning that there are pros and cons to doing this. You will need to keep track of where you put your resources on the Internet. You may find it better to place as much as possible...