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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 and delivering


A long time ago, I put together two radio shows, with a friend of mine, for a radio station in Caldas, a nice place north of Lisbon, Portugal. A friend of a friend owned the place. He was an entrepreneur who enjoyed taking risks (he didn't even know us well and we hadn't done any prior work in that area). As my memory is terrible, I can't remember the titles of the shows, I just remember that we joked about the 80's and 90's, using themes from TV and movie shows (such as the Knight Rider, Baywatch, and Soldiers of Fortune), and included some sketches with strange characters and weird dialogues and, of course, some nice sound effects that we got for free from the Web. I don't remember him inviting us for a third show, but at the time he and the team laughed a lot and we certainly had a great time doing it. The same happened for jazz themes (and some originals—scary to have this recorded for a son or daughter to listen to later!) that we played with some friends, in...