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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 4: Producing effective personal profiles


Aim: Help students write engaging personal profiles

Moodle modules: Personal profile

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: *

One of the first things that many Moodle users do is look up the personal profiles of other users. This should motivate users to make sure that their own profiles are written as accurately and engagingly as possible. It's therefore a good place to start this section on production activities. It's worth agreeing with your class what they think useful ingredients are. It could include some or all of the following:

  • Some background information

  • Something about your interests

  • Why you are a user

  • Links to your favorite websites

This is what we're aiming for:

Here's how to do it

  1. Show students examples of different personal profiles. Get them to comment on which ones they like or don't like. You could do this face to face in class, or you could post texts on a Moodle web page. See Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities, Activity 3 if you need help...