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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 - writing sentences to describe the spatial relationships


Its now time to help Alice write the answers for the two questions.

  1. 1. Log in to your Moodle server using a user with the student role.

  2. 2. Click on the course name (Circus).

  3. 3. Click on the Describing spatial relationships between objects link on the corresponding week. The web browser will show the two questions and the scene with the clown, the circle, and the elephant.

  4. 4. Click on the Start or edit my journal entry button. Moodle will display a big text area with an HTML editor.

  5. 5. Select Verdana in font and 5 (18) in size.

  6. 6. Write an answer for the first question, describing the spatial relationship between the clown and the blue ball, 1. The clown is on the blue ball.

  7. 7. Then write an answer for the second question, describing the spatial relationship between the elephant and the blue ball, 2. The elephant is next to the blue ball. as shown in the next screenshot:

  1. 8. Click on the Save changes button. This way, Moodle...