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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've created a variety of activities to test our students' knowledge of the World's rivers. We've set up all the activities, which are going to mark themselves in Moodle. In this chapter, we:

  • Created a matching exercise with words, and also a matching exercise with pictures

  • Created a gap-fill exercise, which can be adapted for both high-ability and lower-ability children

  • Created a crossword that the students can enjoy solving, either individually on the computer, or in the class—using a projector

  • Mixed up some clauses and got the students to think and reorder them correctly

  • Created a multiple-choice exercise for homework

  • Designed a timed and password protected, end of unit test in Moodle, with three different types of questions

I said at the start, that this chapter was all about work/life balance. After the Work—of setting up my Hot Potatoes exercises and my end of unit assessment—I can now enjoy my Life—sitting back and letting Moodle mark and record the grades for me...