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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 WordWeb game from Spellmaster


In my opinion, we can whizz through the instructions here, as they're pretty much the same as those for our Hammer game:

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

  2. 2. Click on Download Pack, and save and unzip the files, just as we did for Bish Bash Bosh.

  3. 3. You'll see more files in the folder—no problem! Just find the file named words; that's your XML file.

  4. 4. Right-click on the file and select Open With... | Notepad, as we did earlier.

  5. 5. This time, we get a list of French words and their English meanings. Change the pairs of words to whatever you want.

    We're matching up rivers and cities, and want our students to be able to locate the rivers correctly, and then spell the main cities that the rivers run through. Our edited file looks like this:

  6. 6. Click on Save, to save this file and overwrite the original file.

  7. 7. Save the entire folder, giving it a new name (we will name ours as Riverscities).

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