Multimedia Moodle!

Yesterday, my mini-department team met to talk about the multimedia elements in Moodle. Since so many sites are blocked about Mt. Hebron (and Howard County in general), we have had to find other ways to upload music and videos to Moodle or provide a link and have the students view the material at home. I thought that uploading various files to Moodle would be similar to other Web 2.0 applications, but like everything else on Moodle, there are a million options and settings. I have a video that I want my students to watch next week that is a depiction of the short story they are going to read, but completely done in Legos! I embedded the video and provided them with the link to the site in case the video does not work for them.

With Moodle, I feel like we are constantly creating a back-up in case the technology fails. While I know this is good practice, I cannot even begin to add up all of the time that I have spent on this program this year. I know that is has been worth it, especially for the practice that students are getting by having a hybrid class.

Today did not take too long, and it is a busy week, so we only met for about 30 minutes to go over some settings and make sure that we are not only attempting to embed resources but also provide links to them.

I think next month we are going to work on the mid-year survey that we need the students to complete in compliance with having the program approved for us to use this year. I am hopeful that we will get to use Moodle again next year, but I suppose that time will tell!