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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

Selecting Web 2.0 applications


When selecting Web 2.0 applications to use in our courses, there are some issues that we should be aware of. We already saw some privacy and safety aspects of this, so now let's have a look at some other aspects of it:

  • Ownership and licensing - The ownership of the works that we make available online should remain ours. With regard to licensing, the company that manages the Web application has the right to distribute our work (of course, this makes sense). The license that we provide to them shouldn't be too unrestricted, though. Always check the Terms of Service for this. There should also be tools to enable us, as authors, to attach a license to our works (as is the case with Flickr).

  • Formats - Services that use PNG, JPEG, Flash Video, MPEG-4, MP3, and all of the Web standards should be acceptable (HTML, XML, RSS).

  • Backup - All of the services should have a backup facility, or facilitate this in some way, especially if editing is performed online (as is...