The Moodle Journal chronicles using podcasts, streaming, downloads, training, metadata, scorm, lessons, quizzes, forums, chat, journals, LAMS, Mahara and assignments in the deployment of the Moodle vle as part of our e-learning programme here at College.
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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. |
