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. An ideal choice 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.
Chapter 1, Creating Interactive User eXperiences, explains how to create rich activities for our Moodle courses.
Chapter 2, Working with 2D and 3D Maps, illustrates how to create and embed different types of 2D and 3D interactive maps in your Moodle courses. The recipes use Web resources as well as free and open source software to build and display interactive maps.
Chapter 3, Working with Different Types of Interactive Charts, describes how to create and embed different types of 2D and 3D interactive and static charts in Moodle courses. The recipes use diverse tools and techniques to display data in charts and to provide students with the necessary information for their activities.
Chapter 4, Integrating Interactive Documents, explains how to use diverse types of interactive documents in your Moodle courses. The recipes use the most popular free, commercial, Web-based, and desktop-based software to create the interactive documents for Moodle courses and provide students with the necessary information for their research activities.
Chapter 5, Working with Audio, Sound, Music, and Podcasts, describes how to work with different types of audio files to offer sound, music, and podcasts in your Moodle courses. The recipes use diverse tools to record, edit, and convert the different audio files, covering the most common scenarios for multimedia Moodle activities.
Chapter 6, Creating and Integrating Screencasts and Videos, explains how to create screencasts and edit, link, and embed videos for our Moodle courses. The recipes use diverse free and open source multi-platform tools to record, edit, and convert the different video files, covering the most common scenarios for multimedia Moodle activities.
Chapter 7, Working with Bitmaps and Photographs, illustrates how to work with different types of image file formats that use lossless and lossy compression schemes. The recipes use diverse tools to edit, enhance, and convert the different image files, covering the most common scenarios for multimedia Moodle activities.
Chapter 8, Working with Vector Graphics, explains how to work with different types of vector graphics formats. The recipes use diverse free and open source tools to edit, enhance, and convert the different vector graphics files. Vector graphics are one of the most difficult formats to handle in Moodle courses
Chapter 9, Designing and Integrating E-portfolios, illustrates how to design and integrate e-Portfolios in Moodle courses. You will learn exciting techniques to organize your information for your students as well as combine everything learned so far in interactive e-Portfolios.