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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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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

Time for action-creating an exercise where words are matched with pictures


Let's create an exercise, using JMatch, where our pupils need to recognise the outline of the continents.

  1. 1. Have your images (not very large in size) saved on your computer and ready for use (we shall learn more about image sizes and types in Chapter 8).

  2. 2. Click on JMatch.

  3. 3. As with our first JMatch, give the exercise a name and add the words, "half of the pair".

  4. 4. Save the exercise as a project file (.jmt).

  5. 5. Go to a box in which you want to insert the image, and click inside it.

  6. 6. From the menu at the top of the screen, select Insert | Picture | Picture from Local File, as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. 7. Browse for an image of your choice, as you'd do while finding one for a Moodle exercise.

  8. 8. In the next dialog box (Picture alignment), ignore it for now and click on OK.

  9. 9. You will be taken back to the main screen, and your chosen box or boxes will have web code in it, as shown in the following screenshot...