Even if you are new to the subject, adding Multimedia to your
Moodle courses has become easier nowadays. While it is true that much help, and
lots of "How to" sites and pages, are available on the Internet, it
is both time consuming and difficult to assess its quality. As a result, the
average Moodle teacher / trainer may be at a loss when trying to figure out
what is best when it comes to including pictures, sound, video, animations,
interactive elements, and more in Moodle courses.
Well, not any more. "Moodle 2.5 Multimedia - Quick and easy
ways to add multimedia to your Moodle courses" by João Pedro Soares
Fernandes comes in very handy. Moodle teachers / trainers will find answers to
any number of questions that may leave them baffled. To mention but a few,
" How do I configure Moodle for multimedia?", "Where do I
get the best images under an Attribution
license, which means that we can use these images without many restrictions,
except for citing the author?" , "How do I best add these images to my
course?", "Can I add sound to a forum?", "If yes, then how?", "Should I link or embed a video clip?",
"What is the difference, and how does that look on my course?", "When
adding multimedia, how do I figure out
what the HTML language and signs mean?", "Why is that important?" … And so
on and so forth. Different users may come up with different questions, but all
of them will find their answers on Soares Fernandes' book .
I myself am not expert on adding multimedia to my Moodle courses,
so I have found myself checking and doing things in ways. "Moodle 2.5
Multimedia" advises. Using the Online PDF version of the book, I have been
able to turn to recommended websites that are just a click away. The images
provided in the books have been of great help too.
As a book lover, I am sure I would enjoy the paperback edition as
much as the online one.
The book was written around the design of an online course called Music
for everyday life using Moodle. As I see it, that online course deserves a
positive site review on its own. It may inspire teachers and trainers who run
professional courses and have experience in the use of Moodle even if they had
created quite a few courses before getting to know it.
As a teachers who has been creating courses on Moodle for just the
last two years, I have lots of good words to say about . "Moodle 2.5
Multimedia". I can recommend it highly indeed.
