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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide. You need no special technical skills or previous Moodle experience to use the e-learning platform to create fantastic interactive teaching aids for pre-teen and early teenage students. This book takes you from A-Z in easy steps

Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide. You need no special technical skills or previous Moodle experience to use the e-learning platform to create fantastic interactive teaching aids for pre-teen and early teenage students. This book takes you from A-Z in easy steps

Mary Cooch

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Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how!Moodle 2 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. The book focuses on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go to day after day.This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Learn how to put your lessons online in minutes; how to set creative homework that Moodle will mark for you and how to get your students working together to build up their knowledge. Throughout the book we will build a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14, on Rivers and Flooding. You can adapt this to any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
  • Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
    • Table of Contents
    • Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • About the Reviewers
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    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • What you need for this book
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Time for action heading
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero heading
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 1. Getting Started
      • First impressions
      • Time for action customizing our course page
        • What just happened?
      • Making changes on the course page
        • Getting the best out of the side blocks
      • Time for action moving, adding, and deleting blocks
        • What just happened?
        • Useful and less useful blocks
        • Have a go hero get the right choice of blocks for your course!
      • Making our own side blocks in Moodle
      • Time for action configuring an HTML block
        • What just happened?
      • Customizing the middle section
        • Using the text editor
        • Have a go hero give titles to each section of your course
        • What just happened?
      • Brightening up the course page with images
      • Time for action uploading images to our Moodle page
        • What just happened?
        • What if you dont have any good images on your computer?
        • Have a go hero add an image to your HTML block
      • Adding links to other websites in Moodle
      • Time for action making a click here link to a website
        • What just happened?
      • Summary
    • 2. Adding Worksheets and Resources
      • Putting a worksheet on Moodle
      • Time for action uploading a factsheet on to Moodle
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero putting a slideshow onto Moodle
      • What can you pick from the File picker?
      • Putting a week's worth of slideshows into Moodle
      • Time for action getting a whole folder of work into Moodle in one go
        • What just happened?
      • Making a 'click here' type link to the River Thames website
        • Have a go hero linking to a website
      • Recapwhere do we stand now?
      • Making a multimedia worksheet about flooding, directly in Moodle
      • Time for action typing our flooding worksheet straight into Moodle
        • What just happened?
      • Online worksheetssome ideas to consider
      • Making our page look prettier
      • Time for action improving the look of our course page
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero move the label!
      • Summary
    • 3. Getting Interactive
      • How do we do all this?
      • Getting our class to reflect and discuss
      • Time for action setting up a discussion forum on Moodle
        • What just happened?
        • How do we moderate the forum?
        • Why use a forum?
      • Carrying on the conversation in real timeoutside of school
      • Time for action setting up a chat room in Moodle
        • What just happened?
        • Why use chat? (and why not?)
      • Making our own class Glossary
      • Time for action getting students to create their own Glossary
        • What just happened?
      • Showcasing the plans in a database
      • Time for action setting up a database
        • What just happened?
      • How far have we come?
      • Giving our class a chance to vote
      • Time for action giving students a chance to choose a winner
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero getting the class to give us feedback
        • Why use Choice?
        • Announcing the winner
      • Writing creatively in Moodle
      • Time for action setting up an online creative writing exercise
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action marking students' work on Moodle
        • What just happened?
        • Other ways to set and mark work in Moodle
        • Have a go hero mark their campsite design
      • Collaborative story-telling
      • Time for action getting our class to work together on an online story
        • What just happened?
      • Summary
    • 4. Self-marking Quizzes
      • Forget the paper
      • Hot potatoescool learning
      • Time for action getting a program to create our self-marking activities
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action matching rivers to continents with the JMatch Hot Potato
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero make the rivers and continents into a drag-and-drop activity
      • Time for action getting our matching activity into Moodle
        • What just happened?
      • Consolidating knowledge with Hot Potatoes activities
      • Time for action creating a self-marking gap-fill exercise
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero make differentiated exercises for students with mixed abilities
      • Time for action making a self-marking crossword exercise
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action making a self-marking mixed up words exercise
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action making a self-marking multiple-choice quiz
        • What just happened?
      • How can we save the scores in Moodle
      • Words of warning
      • Adding pictures, sound, or video to our self-marking exercises
      • Making an assessment test with a Moodle quiz
      • Time for action setting up a Moodle quiz as test on rivers and continents
        • What just happened?
      • The quiz question screen
      • Time for action making a multiple-choice question
        • Have a go hero Jazz up the question with an image!
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero making a true/false question
      • Time for action adding a video to a Matching question
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero Add a sound file to a quiz question
      • Previewing and using our Moodle assessment test
      • Other types of questions
      • Summary
    • 5. Games
      • Making an Alien Abduction (hangman) game
      • Time for action finding and making the Alien Abduction game
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero adding a link to our game in Moodle
      • Time for action showing just the game without the web page
        • What just happened?
      • Garbage in the binsmaking a sorting exercise
      • Time for action finding and making the bin game
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero(1) adding a link to a file (our game) in Moodle
        • Have a go hero(2) embedding the game into a Moodle page
      • Bish Bash Bosha differentiation game with a hammer!
      • Time for action finding and creating the Bish Bash Bosh game
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action uploading and displaying our game on Moodle
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero make a wheel of fortune game
      • Making a Monster memory game from Languages Online
      • Time for action downloading Memory Game Maker
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action creating our memory game
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero(1) upload the game to Moodle
        • Have a go hero(2) create a different type of game
      • I know what you're thinking!
      • Fling the Teachermaking a Moodle-marked homework
      • Time for action finding and setting up Fling the Teacher
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action creating a Fling the Teacher game
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action getting our game to work in Moodle's gradebook
        • Have a go hero playing the game
      • Summary
    • 6. Multimedia
      • Making a sound recording to put into Moodle
      • Time for action getting Audacity
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action setting up to record
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero recording audio
      • Improving the recording and involving our class
      • Time for action getting rid of the coughs and giggles
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action adding background music
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action saving our recording
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero displaying our MP3 file on Moodle
      • Time for action displaying the audio file in a player on the page
        • What just happened?
      • Making a film to put into Moodle
        • What can we use to make our movie?
        • Getting Windows Movie Maker
      • Time for action creating our movie
        • Have a go hero adding photos to the movie and testing it out
        • What just happened?
      • Improving our movie with effects and sound
      • Time for action adding special effects to our movie
        • Have a go hero make your movie zoom in and change color!
      • Time for action adding sound to our movie
        • What just happened?
      • Getting the sound to match our images
      • Adding the finishing touches to make our movie ready for Moodle
      • Time for action adding our opening credits
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero adding our closing credits
      • Time for action saving and uploading the movie into Moodle
        • Have a go hero displaying our movie in Moodle
      • Summary
    • 7. Wonderful Web 2.0
      • Web 2.0 words of warning
      • Getting the pupils to blog!
      • Time for action adding the blog menu block so we can blog inside our course
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action introducing our project with a blog entry
        • What just happened?
        • Words of warning
        • Have a go hero commenting on our pupils' blogs
      • Putting a map onto Moodle
      • Time for action how to display a Google Map on our course page
        • What just happened?
        • Words of warning
      • Introducing the project with a cartoon character
      • Time for action creating a moving and a talking teacher
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero put your Voki onto Moodle!
        • Words of warning
      • Telling our story through an online picture book
      • Time for action signing up and making our picture book
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero add our online picture book to Moodle
        • Have a go hero setting up our Moodle Storybird forum
      • Summarizing our project in a word cloud
      • Time for action making a Wordle word cloud
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero getting our students to send us their Wordle word clouds
        • Words of warning
      • Summary
    • 8. Practicalities
      • Miss, I can't do the homework because I haven't got Word at home!
      • Time for action getting a free alternative to Microsoft Office
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero giving our students an alternative to Microsoft Office
      • Choosing the best file type for Moodle
      • Time for action saving a Rivers homework as a .pdf file for ease of access on Moodle
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero convert a PowerPoint to a PDF and upload it to Moodle
      • Making it easier for our students to view our slideshows
      • Time for action getting a program that displays our interactive presentations
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action saving our slideshow so that everyone can see it
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero uploading and displaying our new slideshow in Moodle
      • Making sure that all of our images look correct on Moodle
      • Time for action getting a program to help us edit images for Moodle
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action resizing a single photo to display on Moodle
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero proving the importance of resizing images!
      • Time for action re-sizing several photos, all in one go
        • What just happened?
      • Showing YouTube videos on Moodle when YouTube is banned
      • Time for action how to download a YouTube video to use on Moodle
        • What just happened?
      • Using Moodle on your i-devices
        • What's good
        • What's not so good
      • Summary
    • 9. Advanced Tips and Tricks
      • Using Moodle to get our students to make decisions
      • Time for action creating a decision-making exercise (DME)
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero carry on decision making!
      • Time for action finishing and viewing our DME
      • Getting feedback from our students
      • Time for action setting up a feedback activity at the end of our course
        • What just happened?
      • Controlling the learning path with Conditional Activities
      • Time for action scheduling conditional activities (1)
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action scheduling conditional activities (2)
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action scheduling conditional activities (3)
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action finalizing conditional activities
        • What just happened?
        • Have a go hero set this up in your course?
      • Finishing offwhat else can Moodle do for me?
      • Making our course home page look more like a web page
        • Have a go hero source and resize suitable images for each topic section
      • Time for action adding image links to our topic sections
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action putting our activities into web pages
        • What just happened?
      • Time for action link the topic page to its image
        • Have a go hero link the other topics to their images
      • Concealing our activities to make our course page neater
      • Time for action making our course page look more like a web page
        • What just happened?
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide. You need no special technical skills or previous Moodle experience to use the e-learning platform to create fantastic interactive teaching aids for pre-teen and early teenage students. This book takes you from A-Z in easy steps
  • Author: Mary Cooch
  • Original title: Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide. You need no special technical skills or previous Moodle experience to use the e-learning platform to create fantastic interactive teaching aids for pre-teen and early teenage students. This book takes you from A-Z in easy steps.
  • ISBN: 9781849518338, 9781849518338
  • Date of issue: 2012-05-16
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bat
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing