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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10): Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10): Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. But what does it have to offer to the children with special educational needs who want a fun, inspiring, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle 1.9 empowers educators achieve all these set of rich experiences with many related activities - this book shows you how! This book offers solutions to developing interactive courses and therapies for children with special education needs who are between the age group of 5 to 10 years. It teaches to combine Moodle 1.9 with the opportunities offered by Web 2.0, free and commercial software, and general purpose hardware devices. This book will guide the reader step-by-step in using many different tools to create exciting experiences to offer great motivation to children with special educational needs, considering the opportunities for online education. This book will help the reader to build interactive and rich online content oriented to children with special educational needs using different techniques and open source tools. It teaches you to create exercises as if you were playing with children at the school, the zoo, the beach, the supermarket, a birthday party, an aquarium, a farm, at the shopping, a circus or at home. You will be able to work with drawings, music, sounds, videos, photographs and text, and you will combine all these pieces into nice experiences for children who need to find extra motivation to improve their learning skills. Besides, it will teach you to take advantage of general purpose, non-expensive hardware like gamepads, joysticks, digital pens also known as pen-sketches, multi-touch screens, netbooks and touchpads. The usage of some of these hardware devices combined with visually rich activities usually offer children an extra motivation to focus on solving the exercises.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10 Year Olds)
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Time for action - creating the mixed parts of the pyramid using images


It is time to organize the images for our exercise.

  1. 1. Start Hot Potatoes and click on JMix. A new window with the JMix application will appear.

  2. 2. Enter Ordering the images according to their sizes in the pyramid in the Title textbox.

  3. 3. Select File | Save from JMix's main menu. Save the file as jmix0402.jmx in the previously created folder, C:\Supermarket.

  4. 4. Click on the big textbox below Main sentence.

  5. 5. Select Insert | Picture| Picture from local file from JMix's main menu. Choose the previously saved bitmap image image040201.png in C:\Supermarket and click on the Open button. Enter 97 in the Width textbox and then click on OK. JMix will resize the height to maintain the image's aspect ratio according to the new width and will insert the image using the new size.

  6. 6. Press Enter and repeat the aforementioned step to resize and insert the previously saved bitmap image image040202.png in C:\Supermarket.

  7. 7. Press Enter again...