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Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

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Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

Overview of this book

Connecting the ideas of students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. Performing these types of tasks through Moodle will help you overcome complex situations while you teach. If you are looking for a guide that will show you how to improve your skills in using Moodle, as well as enhance your way of teaching in virtual classrooms, your search ends right here.This cookbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building a complete reading comprehension, writing, and composition course in Moodle 1.9 starting with simple activities and ending with complex ones. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve writing using Moodle as a virtual learning platform.This book begins with simple activities in order to enhance students' writing, such as connecting activities developed in different ways either using Moodle or free and open source software available in the Web 2.0. Then, it moves into matching images and different pieces of writing; it shows how to import different pictures to the Moodle course in different ways. It caters for a great variety of images that will brighten the creativity of students.Then reading comprehension is explored from the characters' point of view; students should explore the reading in such a way to become part of it and write as if they were part of the story.Twitter and Facebook social networks are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social on fashion interaction hand in hand with the virtual classroom. There are step-by-step activities involving these websites and inserting Ishikawa's management technique in order to enhance group writing.Once you have reached this point of the book there are other writing techniques explored such as mathematical association to writing, cube technique, discussion clock, mind mapping, and tree diagrams among others. A step-by-step guide is provided for creating these techniques, uploading them into the Moodle course, and creating the writing activity.The book covers writing sentences, poems, songs, descriptions, compositions, essays, articles, cartoons, ads, and creating and describing superheroes.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Play the reporter


In this recipe, we will be designing three different activities in order to help our students to write a story. First of all, they are to use Twitter to interact amongst themselves about a crime (either a felony or a misdemeanor) that has occurred lately. Then, we are going to create a Database in Moodle so that they can answer the five "wh" questions. The last activity is the piece of writing that they'll have to carry out while uploading a file.

Getting ready

We are going to create a discussion in Twitter about a crime that has occurred lately. It would be great to have the latest piece of news. So, I am going to design the activity with the latest news in my neighborhood that: 'The Brown family is missing'. A complete family has been missing for more than 20 days. Nobody knows where they are. Shall we design the activity? Let's Moodle it!

How to do it...

You are going to enter Twitter (remember that you can use the account for the Moodle course), and you are going to...