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Teachers TV was finally put to rest at the end of April 2011 (see here). The coalition government had announced its decision to shut down the website way back in October 2010 but, thankfully, all is not lost. The collection of around 4000 videos and materials have now been rescued by teachers and is now available online (read about the teachers work here). This together with appointed ‘agents’ by the government, through so called non-exclusive distribution agreements means that around 3500 of those 15 minutes long video clips will continue to be available online for free on different websites.
So where we find them now…
Here is a quick tutorial on how to embed PDF document onto your Moodle Course Area and make this available in a viewer frame, all achieved in 5 simple steps. Embedding a Portable Document Format (PDF) file onto Moodle is very similar to adding an iframe on a webpage, although the codes to achieve this look slightly different.
We start this exercise by first uploading a PDF document to your course area. Then the link of the file is copied and used on the HTML code below when creating a Web Page resource. We also take a look at the different parameters that adds functionality to the PDF viewer frame within the browser. Read more…
Here is a quick tutorial on how to embed an E-book into Moodle. When planning and creating resources on the VLE for the topic and subject you wish to cover, www.scribd.com is a good place to start apart from wikipedia.com, encarta.msn.org, bartleby.com, merriamwebster.com and britannica.com.
We used the following scribd.com document to build this tutorial.
Resource Referenced: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52586960/Royal-Weddings-Through-Time
Here are 5 tips to get the most of your VLE (for users of all levels):
Lastly, remember to share your ways of working and improvements that you found on using the learning environement with others.
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Author: Samuel J. Tan
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