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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

Creating and embedding a podcast


In the previous recipe, we learnt how to record ourselves using Audacity (without pausing the recording). If we want to create a podcast for our Moodle course, we can not only record our voice, but also add some music or sound to it in order to enhance it. This is what this task is about.

Getting ready

Combine recordings of people speaking in their native English after describing its characteristics, ask for help from a Linguistic or Phonetics teacher. You can add this element if you happen to have it recorded. You can also add some sounds, for example for the presentation and ending of the podcast as well.

How to do it...

We will work with the Audacity software, which is used in the previous recipe. We can record ourselves as we did before, and convert some parts of tapes, CDs, and MP3 files where we can find the different types of English spoken around the world such as RP English, Creole, Caribbean English, American English among others. Always bear in mind...