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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

Moodle it!


Inserting images in Moodle is really easy. Now that we have a source of free pictures for our course, there are several ways to insert them, depending on the type of resource or activity that we are using. We will have a look at the following three ways in this book:

  • Uploading images as attachments (for example, in forums, glossaries, or databases).

  • Using the built-in HTML editor and the course files area to store the images.

  • Embedding HTML code (specific for images) on web forms. (Don't be scared, it's easy and can be helpful on some occasions, just as we saw with YouTube videos. We will use it later in Chapter 5 for adding pictures to Google Maps, for example).

For now, let's just look at the first two ways of inserting images.

Uploading images as attachments

Using attachments is the easiest way to add a picture to Moodle. This possibility is available for some activities in Moodle, such as the forum, glossary, and database, and it's the easiest way for students to submit their...