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Moodle 2.5 Multimedia - Second Edition

By : Joao Pedro Soares Fernandes
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Moodle 2.5 Multimedia - Second Edition

By: Joao Pedro Soares Fernandes

Overview of this book

Multimedia is a very old human endeavor. It has taken mankind almost 30,000 years since painting on cave walls to get a combination of text, image, sound, and video all working in the same medium, that is, in motion pictures. Finally, after thousands of years of human history, we can all (not just an elite few) create multimedia easily using Moodle. Moodle was built around an idea of learning that happens when a group of people construct things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings. A tutorial-based guide, with clear illustrations and examples of how to create, convert and add multimedia to Moodle using a range of free e-learning software tools and web applications. This book follows the design of resources and activities for the course “Music for everyday life”. The tasks presented are quick and easy to do for teachers and trainers with busy schedules. Giving readers an insight into the creation and integration of multimedia in Moodle courses. Starting with images you will learn to create photo collages, screenshots and comic strips. Then you will discover audio and how to extract audio from CDs to create a soundtrack for a movie and a podcast. Later, you will use video to produce a trailer for a movie, photo slideshows, online TVs and screencasts. Following that, you will develop an understanding of interactive elements and web communication, such as online maps, interactive timelines or web meetings. Finally, you will look at multimedia quizzes and assessment of multimedia assignments, ending with general issues on copyright, licensing and safety. A focus of the book is to show readers that using multimedia is not just about improving instruction, but also improving the ways in which students can can now create multimedia easily, and share it without great effort.. To make this easier, many of the moodle tutorials in the book will be based on activities designed for students to create, discuss and assess each other's multimedia works.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 2.5 Multimedia
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Saad Faruque has been working as a technology implementer and manager for the past 15 years, with 8 years focused on the education industry. He is presently working as Head of Solution Development at Xeo InfoSoft (http://xeois.com), a Bangalore-based company he co-founded. Xeo helps business to implement and manage open source software, for example, Moodle, Alfresco, Zimbra, ORTS, and Nagios with their Service Level Agreements, in their business setup.

You can visit his blog at http://tektab.com. If you need help with Moodle or other open source enterprise implementation, he is available at .

Anna Krassa (kanna) has a Bachelor's degree in Librarianship and Information Science, but she works mostly as an e-learning consultant. She lives in North Greece (Nea Moudania, Chalkidiki) and she became the first Moodle certified teacher in December 2006. In May 2007, she became a mentor/assessor for the MTC/MCCC candidates, collaborating with HRD New Zealand Moodle Partner, Certification Central Administration. From 2012, Anna became the main mentor/assessor at the MCCC Central Administration.

Anna has also been working with GAC Corporate Academy since 2007, initially as an external facilitator for HRD NZ Moodle Partner, facilitating the Personal and Professional Development courses. In 2012, she joined the academy, and since then, she has been working as a Moodle administrator.

In Greece, she has worked for the E-learning Services department of the Library of University of Macedonia "Telemathea", for the Greek School Network, and as a volunteer with K12 teachers for an e-school called Mathisis. Internationally, besides her collaboration with GCA and HRD, she has set up businesses in Bahrain (GII Academy), Ethiopia (Mekelle University), Canada (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), and Cyprus (European University of Cyprus).

On a personal level, she is married to Vasilis, and together they have a lovely girl.

Bill MacKenty has been a professional educator for over 10 years. Now as a school administrator focusing on educational technology, Bill has been part of the "ed-tech" scene in it's most formative and nascent years—even now, though many learning organizations do not fully understand how, why, when, and what they should be doing with educational technology.

An avid Linux system administrator and a Moodle admin and user, Bill manages several Noodle instances and loves learning about the Noodle ecosystem.

Danny Wahl is an educational technology consultant and implementation specialist working in the Asia-Pacific region with a particular focus in international schools. He has assisted several schools in one-on-one computing, online, and mobile-learning programs among other things. When not working, he enjoys web development, studying the Bible, and playing 'ukulele.