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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 an online real-time classroom


A VoIP tool is great for distance education but it doesn't let you, for example, share your desktop or present a slideshow to all of the students at the same time. Dimdim (http://www.dimdim.com), an online tool for web meetings, has all of this and more, in addition to the audio and video communication possibilities, and it's free for up to 20 meeting attendants. With a tool like this we can:

  • Demonstrate how to use a particular software

  • Make online presentations to the entire class, with real-time annotations, using Microsoft Powerpoint, PDF files, or by sharing our entire desktop

  • Draw and comment on a collaborative whiteboard

In our course, we could use this in several modules, but it would fit well in Module 4 - Music is a language. In this module, students have to create basic rhythms, harmonies, and melodies using free software, so that as a teacher we can discuss some of the basic music theory and use of applications to create music, sharing our...