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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Activity 2: Creating a display of student work using the E-Portfolio block


Aim: Help students organize a range of work documents

Moodle modules: None

Extra programs: Add-on Exabis E-Portfolio block

Ease of setup: ***

In this scenario, students have to display their best language work for a given period. The fact that their work will be on display should motivate them to produce the best work possible. It will remind them of the work they've done and help them reflect on it. It's also a chance for students to benefit from each other's work.

Here's how to do it

First of all, make sure the add-on block has been installed. The following example is for a portfolio for the fictitious Jill Smith, so I'll write the instructions as if I were telling her what to do. Remember that teachers can't edit students' portfolios. You might find it useful to set up a dummy student and log on as that student to try out the procedure. You can delete the dummy student later on, if necessary.

First, though, we need to...