Moodle Tools

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Moodle Tools

• Presented by
• Greg Steinke, Instructional Media Specialist

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Outline

• Editing images and graphics
• Microsoft Photo Editor and GIMP
• Drawing with your tablet pc
• Sketchbook Pro
• Recording Audio
• Audacity to record and edit audio
• Capturing Lectures
• Camtasia Studio Pro

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Editing an Image with Microsoft Photo Editor

• Import
• Crop
• Compress image to display well with Moodle eh,
  not so much

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GIMP your images

• GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program
• Open an image
• Scale it to 72 dpi (dots-per-inch)
• Save as .jpeg or .gif file
• Keep images under 30 Kilobytes
• http//www.gimp.org/

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Your Tablet Pc is a great tool!

• Using Discreet Sketchbook Pro to draw, paint and
  edit images
• http//usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id6848
  332siteID123112

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Audacity to record audio

• Audacity allows you to record audio and export to
  .mp3 to incorporate audio into Moodle
• Two downloads One to download Audacity and
  another to download .mp3 encoder
• http//audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
• http//lame.buanzo.com.ar/

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Add .mp3 to Moodle

• 1- upload .mp3 file
• 2- link to .mp3 file
• 3- delete the link text with the .html editor, so
  that just the audio player shows up

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Lecture Capture using Camtasia Studio Pro

• Camtasia is a screen recorder
• http//www.techsmith.com/
• For Tutorials http//video.techsmith.com/camtasia
  /5/edu/quickstart/enu/default.html

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Me!

• Video Production
• Photography
• Animation
• Drawing
• working on 3D animation and modeling