Moodle is an open source, cross-platform virtual learning environment that is widely used in schools and businesses, specifically multimedia elements to enhance the user experience. Moodle as a Course Management System helps to create online courses with the major focus being on interaction.
Moodle 2.5 Multimedia Cookbook consists of recipes, which give information on how to design activities using multimedia resources. Besides, using special hardware devices to execute activities is also covered in this book. Learn how to use the most modern hardware devices with Moodle. Take advantage of these hardware devices to access your courses with multimedia content and rich activities.
It also provides a practical step-by-step guide to build and complete a multimedia course in Moodle 2.5, starting with creating interactive User eXperiences and ending with enabling and organizing work in e-portfolios.
It will help you to link, edit, and embed bitmaps and photographs; learn to resize and convert them 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 simple recipes.
Moodle 2.5 Multimedia Cookbook teaches you how to work with free and open source software and services to perform most of the activities explained in the recipes.
We will cover the following chapters in this book:
Chapter 1, Creating Interactive User eXperiences, explains how to create rich activities for our Moodle courses. It will also cover working with graphics to create engaging activities for students, as graphics tend to be an important asset to bear in mind when designing an activity.
Chapter 2, Working with 2D and 3D Maps, explains how to create and embed different types of 2D and 3D interactive maps in Moodle courses. The recipes use web resources, as well as free and open source software to build and display interactive maps. Working with weather maps available on the Web is a new feature of the update.
Chapter 3, Working with Different Types of Interactive Charts, explains 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 Moodle courses. The recipes use the most popular free, commercial, web-based, and desktop-based software to create 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, explains how to work with different types of audio files to offer sounds, music, and podcasts in our 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 Videos, explains how to create screencasts and to edit, link, and embed videos for our Moodle courses. The recipes use diverse free and open source multiplatform 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, explains 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, covering the most common scenarios for multimedia Moodle activities. Vector graphics are one of the most difficult formats to handle in Moodle courses.
Chapter 9, Designing and Integrating Repositories and E-portfolios, explains how to design and integrate e-portfolios in Moodle courses. We are also going to learn exciting techniques to organize information for students, as well as combine everything learned so far in interactive e-portfolios.