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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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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

Creating exercises with Hot Potatoes


Hot Potatoes (http://hotpot.uvic.ca) from Half Baked Software allows us to create interactive web games and puzzles in a simple way. One of the advantages of Hot Potatoes over Moodle's quiz engine is that Hot Potatoes makes it easier to create exercises, and some of these are very different from the ones available in Moodle, for example crosswords, and finding pairs via drag and drop. The license for this software is a peculiar one, as it allows free use by individuals working for state-funded educational institutions that are non-profit making, on the condition that the material produced using the application is freely available to anyone via the Web (this means that a Moodle course without access to guests, without a key wouldn't probably qualify). Other uses require a license, so we should keep this in mind.

We need to register the software at http://hotpot.uvic.ca/reg/register.htm. A key will be sent to our email inbox and we can then register it...

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