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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

Activity 3: Using Workshop to support iterative writing


Aim: Help students develop their writing though reflection and evaluation from peers and teachers

Moodle modules: Workshop

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: ***

Since the Workshop module can seem a bit daunting with all its variations, I suggest you follow a recipe first. Then once you get the hang of it, you should find it easy to adjust it to suit your own needs.

In the following scenario, students are going to practice writing a film review. The workflow will look like this:

  1. Students review and evaluate three film reviews provided by the teacher.

  2. Students then write their own first draft.

  3. Three peers review the drafts.

  4. Students produce their final drafts.

  5. The teacher finally evaluates each final product.

Workshop is flexible. You could miss out Stage 1 if you want students to go straight to draft submission. You could miss out Stage 3, but then the activity would be more like the regular Assignment module. You could miss out Stage 5 if you...