Book Description
Add images, videos, music, and much more to make your Moodle course interactive and fun
- Learn how to add photographs, videos, animations, and much more to make your Moodle course even more interactive
- Embed 2D or 3D maps, interactive or static charts, resources, assets, videos, bitmaps, and photographs into Moodle courses
- Learn how to design and work with podcasts, audio assets, sound, music, and screencasts and integrate them into Moodle
- Part of Packt's Cookbook series, which is ideal if you want to follow clear recipes to quickly add effects to your course without the need for extra reading
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
Table of Contents
- Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook
- Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Creating Interactive User eXperiences
- Introduction
- Creating a cloze with pictures
- Designing a True or False quiz
- Developing a quandary maze activity with images
- Carrying out and embedding an interactive flowchart
- Designing matching activities with images
- Ordering paragraphs with related scenes
- Linking external 2D interactive activities
- Linking external 3D interactive activities
- 2. Working with 2D and 3D Maps
- Introduction
- Creating maps with sceneries
- Drawing regions within a map
- Labeling a map with pins
- Drawing 3D maps using Bing Maps
- Drawing 3D maps using 3DVIA Shape for Maps
- Using Google maps to locate European bridges
- Displaying interactive information about the solar system
- Working with constellation maps
- Embedding a map of Mars
- Labeling the moon
- Watching the universe
- 3. Working with Different Types of Interactive Charts
- Introduction
- Inserting column charts
- Embedding a line chart
- Designing an interactive pie chart with labels
- Creating bar charts with hyperlinks
- Working with area charts
- Inserting an X Y (Scatter) chart
- Working with stock charts
- Creating a poll and designing a surface chart
- Drawing a donut interactive chart
- 4. Integrating Interactive Documents
- 5. Working with Audio, Sound, Music, and Podcasts
- 6. Creating and Integrating Screencasts and Videos
- 7. Working with Bitmap Images and Photographs
- 8. Working with Vector Graphics
- Introduction
- Converting vector graphics to bitmap images
- Rendering parts of a vector drawing
- Embedding scalable vector graphics
- Improving vector graphics rendering with anti-aliasing
- Include vector graphics in Open Office documents
- Include vector graphics in PDF files
- Linking to scalable vector graphics
- Enhancing scalable vector graphics with hyperlinks
- 9. Designing and Integrating E-portfolios