Another application of Hot Potatoes is called JMix. This is helpful for creating activities where the students have to rearrange words or phrases. If you save it as a web page (.html
), you can set it up in two different ways. You can either set it up in such a way that when the students click on the word or the phrase, it magically moves itself into the next part of a sentence, or you can have it as a drag-and-drop activity. We're going to set up our application to put the correct rivers in the correct continents—again! This information will be indelibly printed on their brains once they've been through every Hot Potato! Let's learn how to set it up.
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide
Overview of this book
Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how!
This book will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14.
This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting started
Adding worksheets and resources
Getting Interactive
Self-marking Quizzes
Games
Multimedia
Wonderful Web 2.O
Practicalities
Advanced tips and tricks
Customer Reviews