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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 - solving the puzzle using a multi-touch device


It is also possible to make this exercise more attractive executing it with a multi-touch device working as a multi-touch mouse. We must first download and install Logitech Touch Mouse Server. We will then solve the puzzle using the multi-touch device.

Note

You need an iPhone, iPod Touch, or an iPad connected to your computer through a Wi-Fi or any other kind of compatible network in order to complete this activity. The following instructions explain the necessary steps to run this software on Windows. However, you can also run it on Mac OS X.

  1. 1. Go to Control Panel | System and a new window displaying the basic information about your computer will appear. Check the value shown for System type. The possible values are 32-bit Operating System or 64-bit Operating System, as shown in the next screenshot:

  1. 2. Open your default web browser and go to http://www.logitech.com/touchmouse. This web page allows us to download the different...