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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 setting up 'Fling the Teacher'


Let's set up the game, Fling the Teacher.

  1. 1. Go to the web site address http://www.contentgenerator.net/.

  2. 2. Scroll down and click on the Free link, available under the Fling the Teacher image, as shown in the following screenshot.

  3. 3. Scroll down to Suite 2: Fling the Teacher, and click on it.

  4. 4. Click on the image that is displayed next, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. 5. When prompted, register on the support forum. Please do so—it's perfectly safe!

  6. 6. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the Download File link.

  7. 7. A dialog box will be displayed, as shown in the following screenshot. Click on the Open button.

  8. 8. When it has opened, click on the Extract all files button.

  9. 9. You will be warned: "The publisher cannot be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?" Click Run—it's OK—I'll verify him!

  10. 10. On Vista, you might be asked if you want to allow this or not. Choose to allow it.

  11. 11. When the installation...