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The H1N1 virus effects younger people more then older and already has shut down a number of schools for a week or more.  Some school districts, such as Wausua, WI are preparing to continue to educate children even if schools are closed using Moodle.

 Smart move!

 Our goal is to make it easy and effective day to day as well as in emergencies.

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20090710/WDH0101/907100642/1981/WDHopinion

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The first part of my post featured the Video Recorder in the Authoring environment.  In this post, we will look into Video Recorder in Monitoring Environment.

Summary Screen

The Summary tab for the Video Recorder allows the Monitor to view learner submissions for the activity as they are recorded and uploaded.  Sequence monitors can also record their own messages for students and delete submissions, where necessary.  Monitors cannot rate or comment on video submissions.

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The Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), is the public Spanish Open University. UNED is the second largest university in Spain with more than 180,000 students and since 1997 it has held the UNESCO chair in Distance Education which promotes research, development and documentation in the field of distance education.

UNED is a long time member of the .LRN community and they have just publish an article on their use cases and why they choose .LRN.

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In a not so recent post, I mentioned about the LAMS Audio Video Recorder as one of the new improvements in LAMS 2.3.  It is among the 5 newest tools included in this latest version.

The LAMS Video Recorder tool allows authors to record instructions for their learners and embed them into a sequence.

The Video Recorder comes as a seperate activity, which allows learners to upload their own videos and optionally comment and rate on each other's recordings, and the tool also includes a FCKEditor plugin, which allows Authors to record a video and insert it into "any activity" they choose.  As teacher, you can record a "starting point" video to start off the conversation, then the students can share their videos, add comments and ratings to each other's videos. 

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