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Moodle 1.9 Multimedia

You're reading from   Moodle 1.9 Multimedia Create and share multimedia learning materials in your Moodle courses.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847195906
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Moodle 1.9 Multimedia
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
1. Preface
1. Getting Ready for Multimedia in Moodle FREE CHAPTER 2. Picture This 3. Sound and Music 4. Video 5. Web 2.0 and Other Multimedia Forms 6. Multimedia and Assessments 7. Synchronous Communication and Interaction 8. Common Multimedia Issues in Moodle

Podcasting using Podomatic


A podcast can be thought of as a radio show that is distributed on the Web, just for subscribers. This means that when we, as authors, create a new "episode", our subscribers automatically receive it on their computer or an iPod (the Apple device that gave the name to this distribution mechanism) connected to the computer via a kind of synchronization process. Thus, a podcast is not the usual concept of radio, where a station is continually broadcasting. In addition, podcasts can be audio- or video-based (for example, http://itunes.stanford.edu). We also need a player to automatically download podcasts. We now have Songbird to compete with iTunes (Apple's media player). Songbird is a nice open source media player by Mozilla, the same guys who develop Firefox:

And with Podomatic, we are going to create podcasts, and we don't even need a player.

Podomatic (http://www.podomatic.com) is an online community that loves podcasting. We can create our own podcasts online...

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