Moodle Newsletter issue 1
If you are interested in all things Moodle, did you know that now there is a Moodle newsletter available. Its a pdf format file and issue 1 can be downloaded from here.
posted by Barrys at 8:21 PM
Thursday, November 10, 2005
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Previous Posts
- Lets try that again
- A good read
- I came across the “Study of Environments to Suppo...
- Generating wider interest
- More time for teaching
- Almost a crowd
- Moodle learning at a distance
- Moodle Object posts made easy
- First light, well maybe
- And the big question is?
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Moodle is a CMS or Course Management System, a software package designed to facilitate the creation and delivery of online courses. You will come across such e-learning systems referred to as an LMS (Learning Management Systems) and more commonly now as a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment). Moodle is Open Source, this means you are free to download, use, modify and even distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public License. |
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Audacity is a freeware audio editor that is ideally suited for producing podcasts. |
| CamStudio from Macromedia is the easiest way to create interactive demonstrations and software simulations in Flash format, and includes visible and audible mouse movements. |
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CourseGenie is a tool that will help you to take course material in Word format and efficiently transform it into a dynamic online course. |
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Just give EclipseCrossword a list of words and clues, and it does the rest. In seconds, you'll have a crossword puzzle with just the words you want. |
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Doppler is a podcast aggregator thats small and easy to use. |
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RealProducer Helix Basic is perfect for users who want to create quality webcasts, on demand audio and video and synchronised media. |
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Hot Potatoes is a suite of tools that allow you to develop various quiz type exercises using a GUI interface, the output files can be run as webpages or imported into a VLE. |
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Lame is a plug-in for the Audacity audio editor that will facilitate saving output in MP3 format. |
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Moodle is an Open source VLE designed to facilitate the creation and delivery of online courses. |
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Pageflip is an open source Macromedia Flash page turning book simulation that is ideal for small eBook projects. |
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A superb little application for interactive white board work, allows students to drag statements, words, definitions to appropriate images, features scoring. |
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An add-on tool for MS Office PowerPoint 2003 lets you take your PowerPoint slides and synchronize them with audio and video |
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An open source JISC funded project (X4L strand B) developing tools such as content packaging,Learning Technology and viewers to ADL and IMS Interoperability specifications. |
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Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. It’s free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers. |
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ThinkLink is a free web based mind-mapping tool. |
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A web based interactive white board |
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Windows Encoder ia a powerful production tool for converting both live and prerecorded audio and video into Windows Media files or streams. |
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Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation package,aimed at generating tutorials through screen capture incorporating callout boxes, buttons, titles etc.. |
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A freeware Windows Podcast aggregator, that features a GUI interface and the ability to present Podcasts in realtime using streaming technology. |
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