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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 consolidated pupils' knowledge of our rivers and flooding topics by creating five free games for the students to enjoy. We have:

  • Created two games, entirely online, and linked them into our Moodle course page by using Add a Resource | Link to a file or website.

  • Created two other games that we downloaded and then, by changing a special (.xml) file, we customized it for our purposes. We then uploaded the folder containing this file into Moodle, and linked to the .html file that displays our game.

  • Generated a fifth game, which we downloaded, added questions to, and then uploaded in a special way that ensures that the results are saved in Moodle.

So far, so good! In this chapter and the previous one, we have used other people's creativity for our own teaching purposes. But what about being creative ourselves? And what about bringing out the creativity of our own students? In the next chapter, we shall do just that, using Moodle as our showcase.