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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 10: Writing a slideshow commentary using Forum


Aim: Get students writing about a set of images

Moodle modules: Forum

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: *

Images often motivate us and provoke a response. If we see a set of photos of an event we were involved in, we often feel like commenting on it. If we see a picture of a news item, the story comes to life. If we see a work of art, we may be moved to talk or write about it. The simple idea behind this activity is to choose an image or a set of images and encourage our users to write a commentary.

There are many sources. We can look for copyright-free images on the Web, or even better, use students' own photos or photos we've taken in class.

We're going to use the Forum module to create the slideshow. It allows us to keep all students' slideshows in one place. Here's what a forum slideshow might look like.

The forum also allows other users to comment on narratives.

Let's create a slideshow based on a recent trip to Moscow.

Here's how to...