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Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
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Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is widely used in schools and businesses. By including multimedia, such as animated graphics, bitmaps, photographs, and videos in your Moodle site, you can enhance the enjoyment of your site's users and sustain their attention.</p> <p>Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes showing you how to manage, link, and embed different multimedia resources into your Moodle course &ndash; ideal if you don't have the time to read a long tutorial and want quick ways to enhance your Moodle course.</p> <p>Go beyond your normal use of Moodle and make your courses really attractive! This cookbook will give you inspiration and teach you to do things you never knew were possible. Link, edit, and embed bitmaps and photographs to illustrate your lessons. Learn to resize and convert images to the most appropriate formats for Moodle courses, interactive documents, and e-Portfolios. Work with animated graphics to create engaging activities and learn the most complex topics related to formats, compression, bitmaps, and vector graphics while following steps in these simple recipes.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Labeling the moon


In this recipe, we travel to the moon. Therefore, we work with Google Earth again. We label the parts of the moon that we want our students to explore. We can also embed related videos from http://www.youtube.com, which are available in Google Earth.

Getting ready

Open Google Earth, click on the planet, and choose Moon, as shown in the following screenshot:

How to do it...

We choose a section of the moon that we want our students to explore. We can choose one of the Apollo Missions on the left-hand margin in Google Earth within Layers in the Earth Gallery. We choose Apollo 17, because there is also an interesting video available on YouTube that we can embed in order to strengthen our activity. You can search on the said website by just typing "Apollo 17", and several videos appear.

We follow these steps in order to capture a photo labeling the Moon in the part that we want our students to explore. Follow these steps:

  1. Click on Apollo 17. A pop-up window will appear displaying...