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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 8: Producing presentations using an OUblog


Aim: Get students to present monologs in their Moodle blogs

Moodle modules: OUblog

Extra programs: NanoGong

Ease of setup: *

There's nothing like having to give an oral presentation to focus students' minds and help them prepare and develop their speaking skills. This activity combines an OUblog and a sound recorder on Moodle to do that: students record their own presentations and publish them in their own blogs. Once again, we'll use NanoGong to record voices and the add-on OUblog to present the recordings.

Tip

Using a regular Moodle blog

If your administrator has not added the OUblog module, you can use a regular Moodle blog, but you won't be able to include the instructions in the blog, and you won't have a comment facility.

Once students have made their recordings, they can embellish their blogs with text and images. Here are some examples of presentations our students could do:

  • Narratives

  • Stories

  • Diaries

  • Descriptions

  • News

In our example they're...