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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-finding and making the Alien Abduction game


Let's first find and then create a game named Alien Abduction.

  1. 1. Go to the web address http://www.what2learn.com/.

  2. 2. Click on Make a game (as shown in the following screenshot).

  3. 3. Next, click on Alien Abduction. You'll see that there are other games as well—which you can create some other time.

  4. 4. Click on the green arrow saying Make a game, that comes up next.

  5. 5. Start typing in the names of the objects that you want to include in the game. We need to enter a title and eight words. Ours is about flooding; so it might look a bit like the following screenshot:

  6. 6. Click on Confirm Questions at the bottom of the screen. You don't need to add a tag.

  7. 7. On the next page, check your words and click on Create Game.

  8. 8. That's it! Done! You'll get the following message, displaying the number allotted to your game:

  9. 9. If you click on the link Play your new game followed by the number allotted to the game, it will take you to your game.

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