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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

Summary


In this final chapter, we looked at copyright issues when using digital works created by others, analyzing some uses that fit under the Fair use umbrella, which is of most interest to teachers and trainers. We also saw other kinds of licenses, such as Creative Commons licenses, that don't just inform us of the allowed uses of the author of a work but also provide a way of licensing our multimedia works on the Web. We also learned how to reference the sources that we use in our creations by using the APA style guide, which is one of many styles available for doing this. Not least, we considered some safety issues when having our students involved in and exposed to larger Web communities, and examined some criteria for selecting Web 2.0 applications to use and communities to be part of. Finally, we looked at some modules and plug-ins that have been developed by Moodle developers, and that can help us develop our Moodle multimedia elements.

After all of these pages, we've finally come...