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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 8: Using a Personal Glossary to set up simple individual vocabulary lists


Aim: Help students set up simple personal vocabulary lists

Moodle modules: Personal Glossary (add-on)

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: *

The activities in this chapter have so far been organized by us, the teachers. But as students we often like to take responsibility for our own vocabulary learning. One way of doing this is to set up a simple add-on, called Personal Glossary, which lets students create their own simple word lists in any number of languages. There is also a simple test feature: a useful feature for revising key vocabulary. Don't forget this is an add-on. So you'll have to get your administrator to download it from the Moodle site and install it on your server. See Chapter 2, Getting Started with Moodle for help with this.

Here's how to do it

  1. On the front page, go to Administration | Modules | Blocks | Manage blocks.

  2. Make sure that Personal Glossary & Quizzer is not hidden. Click on the eye...