Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook : Add Images, Videos, Music, and Much More to Make Your Moodle Course Interactive and Fun

In Detail Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is widely used in schools and businesses. By including multimedia, such as animated graphics, bitmaps, photographs, and videos in your Moodle site, you can enhance the enjoyment of your site's users and sustain their attention. Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes showing you how to manage, link, and embed different multimedia resources into your Moodle course - ideal if you don't have the time to read a long tutorial and want quick ways to enhance your Moodle course. Go beyond your normal use of Moodle and make your courses really attractive! This cookbook will give you inspiration and teach you to do things you never knew were possible. Link, edit, and embed bitmaps and photographs to illustrate your lessons. Learn to resize and convert images to the most appropriate formats for Moodle courses, interactive documents, and e-Portfolios. Work with animated graphics to create engaging activities and learn the most complex topics related to formats, compression, bitmaps, and vector graphics while following steps in these simple recipes. A cookbook with many practical recipes for teachers who want quick solutions to integrate multimedia resources with Moodle to create rich and interactive courses Approach Part of Packt's Cookbook series, each chapter focuses on a different multimedia effect. If you don't have the time to work your way through a long tutorial, then this is the book for you. The step-by-step recipes are independent from each other so you can dip in and out of the book to add great effects to your course as and when you need them. Who this book is for This cookbook is designed for teachers who want to learn how to insert different multimedia assets into their Moodle courses. It is expected that you will have basic knowledge of Moodle 1.9 or 2.0 and have Moodle installed and ready to be worked on. Teachers of different subjects can adapt the recipes to best suit their specific subject. Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 3 Credits......Page 4 About the Author......Page 5 About the Reviewers......Page 7 www.PacktPub.com......Page 9 Table of Contents......Page 14 Preface......Page 18 Introduction......Page 22 Creating a cloze with pictures......Page 23 Designing a True or False Quiz......Page 28 Developing a quandary maze activity with images......Page 35 Carrying out and embedding an interactive flowchart......Page 38 Designing matching activities with images......Page 41 Ordering paragraphs with related scenes......Page 45 Linking external 2D interactive activities......Page 47 Linking external 3D interactive activities......Page 49 Introduction......Page 52 Creating maps with sceneries......Page 53 Drawing regions within a map......Page 56 Labeling a map with pins......Page 59 Drawing 3D maps using Bing Maps......Page 64 for Maps......Page 67 bridges......Page 71 Displaying interactive information about the solar system......Page 73 Working with constellation maps......Page 76 Embedding a map of Mars......Page 79 Labeling the moon......Page 81 Watching the universe......Page 83 Introduction......Page 86 Inserting column charts......Page 87 Embedding a line chart......Page 91 Designing an interactive pie chart with labels......Page 95 Creating bar charts with hyperlinks......Page 98 Working with area charts......Page 103 Inserting an X Y (Scatter) chart......Page 105 Working with stock charts......Page 107 Creating a poll and designing a surface chart......Page 110 Drawing a donut interactive chart......Page 112 Introduction......Page 114 Developing collaborative writing exercises with GoogleDocs......Page 115 Using Open Office and uploading the file to Moodle......Page 120 Using Flickr images in Open Office documents......Page 123 Including live PDF documents in Moodle exercises......Page 125 Reviewing PDF documents......Page 127 Designing a Wiki......Page 128 Introduction......Page 134 Recording audio using a microphone......Page 136 Creating and embedding a podcast......Page 140 Creating MP3 files from diverse audio formats......Page 142 Embedding free sound available on the Web......Page 145 Working with MIDI music......Page 147 Editing MIDI files......Page 149 Allowing students to record audio......Page 153 Introduction......Page 156 Creating a screencast......Page 158 Enhancing a screencast with annotations......Page 163 Embedding a YouTube video......Page 165 Embedding a Dailymotion video......Page 168 Recording a video......Page 171 Editing a video......Page 173 Creating a playlist......Page 175 Enhancing a video with comments......Page 180 Introduction......Page 184 Selecting between lossy and lossless compression schemes......Page 185 Creating animated graphics......Page 188 Resizing photos to their appropriate size......Page 192 Adding hotspots to photos......Page 194 Editing color curves......Page 198 Adding effects and applying filters......Page 200 Uploading images to Moodle......Page 204 Linking external image files......Page 207 Introduction......Page 210 Converting vector graphics to bitmap images......Page 211 Rendering parts of a vector drawing......Page 215 Embedding scalable vector graphics......Page 217 Improving vector graphics rendering with anti-aliasing......Page 220 Include vector graphics in Open Office documents......Page 222 Include vector graphics in PDF files......Page 225 Linking to scalable vector graphics......Page 226 Enhancing scalable vector graphics with hyperlinks......Page 228 Introduction......Page 232 Enabling a portfolio......Page 233 Preparing a portfolio strategy using a Google Docs portfolio......Page 236 Gathering students' work using a File download portfolio......Page 239 Enabling a Box.net portfolio......Page 241 Using a Box.net portfolio......Page 244 Embedding a Box.net folder in Moodle......Page 247 Index......Page 250 In Detail Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is widely used in schools and businesses. By including multimedia, such as animated graphics, bitmaps, photographs, and videos in your Moodle site, you can enhance the enjoyment of your site's users and sustain their attention. Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes showing you how to manage, link, and embed different multimedia resources into your Moodle course - ideal if you don't have the time to read a long tutorial and want quick ways to enhance your Moodle course. Go beyond your normal use of Moodle and make your courses really attractive! This cookbook will give you inspiration and teach you to do things you never knew were possible. Link, edit, and embed bitmaps and photographs to illustrate your lessons. Learn to resize and convert images to the most appropriate formats for Moodle courses, interactive documents, and e-Portfolios. Work with animated graphics to create engaging activities and learn the most complex topics related to formats, compression, bitmaps, and vector graphics while following steps in these simple recipes. A cookbook with many practical recipes for teachers who want quick solutions to integrate multimedia resources with Moodle to create rich and interactive coursesApproach Part of Packt's Cookbook series, each chapter focuses on a different multimedia effect. If you don't have the time to work your way through a long tutorial, then this is the book for you. The step-by-step recipes are independent from each other so you can dip in and out of the book to add great effects to your course as and when you need them. Who this book is for This cookbook is designed for teachers who want to learn how to insert different multimedia assets into their Moodle courses. It is expected that you will have basic knowledge of Moodle 1.9 or 2.0 and have Moodle installed and ready to be worked on. Teachers of different subjects can adapt the recipes to best suit their specific subject