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Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
Book Image

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

Using Flickr images in Open Office documents


In the previous recipe, the same software was used; therefore, we can modify the previous file and add images of those creatures from Flickr. We work with external files because Open Office does not have a clipart library. Thus, this tool is the right option.

Getting ready

We can both search for a photo in Flickr or upload a picture from our personal collection. However, I doubt that we have a photo of these creatures! Therefore, visit http://www.flickr.com/, and create a free account, and upload photos to our document in Open Office.

How to do it...

After signing in and creating the account, search for photos that people have uploaded. Therefore, these are the steps to follow in order to find photos to insert in our Open Office file:

  1. Click on the downwards arrow in the Search block on the left and choose Everyone's Uploads.

  2. In the Search block on the right, write yeti, because we need photos of the said creature, as shown in the following screenshot...