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Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0

By : Vincent Lee Stocker
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Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0

By: Vincent Lee Stocker

Overview of this book

<p>Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is becoming increasingly popular in schools worldwide due to its ease of use and flexibility. Science is the perfect subject to benefit from the features of Moodle as students will find it easier to learn with the help of interactive content, rather than reading ancient textbooks.</p> <p><em>Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0</em> will give you lots of tips and tricks for teaching science using Moodle. This book will make learning more fun for your students and explain complicated concepts with ease with the help of images, diagrams, and interactive quizzes. It will teach you how to create quizzes, start forum discussions, embed videos, and much more, all while keeping the students' performance at the front of your mind, which is easily monitored using the Gradebook function.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Science Teaching with Moodle 2.0
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Learning through Discussion: Forums, Chat, and Messaging
Index

Contributed modules and plugins


Currently there are 682 modules and plugins that you can download from Moodle.org. These are often created by enthusiastic teachers and released to the Moodle community. They need to be installed by your site administrator, however it is a really easy job so don't let them tell you otherwise! The 'M' in Moodle stands for modular so make the most of all the extra bits that the community has produced. Here are just a few favorites. Most already work on Moodle 2.0 and there are plans for the other few to be updated too.

Book module

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=319

The book module allows you to create a simple book style layout for information you want to display. Simple HTML pages can be imported, but if you use images remember to upload them separately to your course. For example you could create a book with your class to learn about electronic components. Each pupil could research a different component and create a HTML page (most text editors...