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Moodle and rich media
Colin Simpson, CIT and Richard Blackwell, ANU
This was a good fun and interesting presentation in two parts by guys who love their multi-media and have been putting that into action in the context of Moodle.
Colin Simpson, CIT
- Who's using moodle, audio, video, interactive multimedia?
- Did presentation in Moodle (interesting way)
- Why use rich media?
- Stimulus: Getting the learner's attention
- Legitimate peripheral partcipation: Rich media lets learners model behaviour from experts in communities of practice
- Empowerment: Let students exrpess themsvles
- Expand the classrooom: Go placs and to things that just aren't possible otherwise e.g., virtual worlds
- Personalisation: Enhance the "teacher's voice" in online material
- Audio for pronunciation
- Postcats/Recordings
- Any html block can take an audio file (e.g., include in a quiz)
Texts alternatives
- e.g. click here to listen to this text
- Communication tools
- Wimba - voiceboard
Video
- Role play (well received)
- Sharing resources - big pipe broadband (like AARNET2 between educational institutions) - e.g., inter-institutional expertise being shared
- Augumented reality - BMW augumented reality (youtube)
- Observation activities
- Child studies unit - behaviour observation activities
- Made a video with timecode - class watches it at the same time or online - and then do behaviour observations
- Child studies unit - behaviour observation activities
- Google Sketchup- 3D - can import 3D objects into browser and they can be interactively rotated
Rich-media: Implementing a 'best-practices' approach
Richard Blackwell, ANU: (artist/casual academic in school of art)
- Much potential for rich media, but its a dark art (different browsers, platforms etc.)
- Rich media project goals to make rich media easier for staff - consult, recommend, best practices protoco for using rich media in WATTLE (ANU's online learning environment) e.g., consistency important to students
- Was also trying to infiltrate the arts school to get them onboard with using WATTLE
- Created a support site for faculty and ran training
- Good idea: Sharing staff support sites across institutions: Rich-media Content in Wattle - kept it simple, video tutorials - suggestion from Adam - put it all up on Moodledocs
- FAQ via glossary tool / f2f training and online training - dual design
- Suggestion: Find the enthusiastic academics - noted that most training was broad not specific (good idea)
- Both students and staff can access student and staff resources
Questions
- W3C compliance
- Accessibility
- I asked about their experience/suggestions re using ogg and/or html5 - they didn't really have anything to say - Adam Sandler explained that video with html5 is problematic - and no-one really showed any knowledge/interest in ogg - even though it is the only open audio/video format of any note - and further somewhat confirming the presenters who both reiterated in ushered tones that electronic audio/video is a dark art.