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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia

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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia

Overview of this book

In today's world, multimedia can provide a more engaging experience for learners. You can embed your own audio, link to pages off-site, or pull a YouTube video into your course. You can use feature-rich quizzes that allow you to assess your students, or provide them with tools and feedback to test their own knowledge. All these require standard procedures and cutting-edge tools. Selecting tools to make multimedia integration in Moodle faster, simpler, and more precise is not child's play. This book provides you with everything you need to include sound, video, animation, and more in your Moodle courses. You'll develop Moodle courses that you are proud of, and that your students enjoy. This book covers integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. It will take you through these elements in detail where you will learn how to create, edit, and integrate these elements into Moodle. The book is written around the design of an online course called "Music for Everyday Life" using Moodle, where teachers and students create, share, and discuss multimedia elements. You will also learn how to use Web 2.0 tools to create images, audio, and video and then we will take a look at the web applications that allow easy creation, collaboration, and sharing of multimedia elements. Finally, you will learn how to interact with students in real-time using a particular online phone service and a desktop sharing application.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Multimedia
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Creating comic strips using Strip Generator


Comics are a great way of telling a story. They can be used to:

  • Create hypothetical situations that could happen in real life (for example, a conflict or a funny situation)

  • Create a storyboard for a movie

  • Narrate an event

If you are getting worried that we will have to draw something and your skills are, well, those of a 10 year old kid, that's not a problem, as mine aren't that good either! Fortunately, there's a tool just for you and me, called Strip Generator, which will save us from further humiliation in front of our students and colleagues. In our course in Moodle, in Module 5 Being a musician, we will design an activity where students have to create a story based on a day in the life of a musician, and they will be required to use this tool to illustrate this. As we will be using a comic strip, we will be drawing the results in an image. We can then add this work to the Moodle course easily, as an attachment to a forum.

Strip generator (http...