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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

E-portfolio


E-portfolios are an exciting way of collating, organizing, and presenting Moodle users' work. A variety of document types can be included; for example, word-processed documents, recordings, videos, and images. Users have control over who sees which parts of the portfolio, and the portfolio can be exported or viewed outside Moodle. Here is a list of the key features of the Moodle Exabis e-portfolio copied from http://docs.moodle.org/en/Exabis_e-portfolio_block.

  • An individual starting page which may contain one's curriculum vitae or similar

  • A manageable category-system on two levels (main category and sub category)

  • File-management within the category-system (i.e. for publication of one's best work-efforts)

  • Publication of interesting links within Moodle or into the web via weblink

  • Self-reflection and documentation of one's personal learning-style by using private notes (with the option for publication within Moodle or into the web via weblink)

  • Commenting-functionality for published links...