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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

Making a sound recording to put into Moodle


Perhaps you have an iPod or an MP3 player. Maybe you download music or talk shows. The files you listen to, or download, are similar to what we are going to create for Moodle. Some people call them podcasts, and although our creations are not podcasts in the strictest terms, we're pretty close!

How do we do it? Well, we need a script to be read out. For that we shall use a poem written by Jamie, a ten year old student in my class. All we need now is the equipment and an instrument to record him with. We need two, or possibly three, items:

  1. 1. A computer.

  2. 2. A microphone, if your computer doesn't have one built-in.

  3. 3. A free program called Audacity, which we'll download in a moment.

Note

You don't need an expensive broadcasting-standard furry microphone at all; a basic mike that gets plugged into your computer will do the job for us. You should find a socket with an icon of a mike somewhere at the back or sides of your computer or laptop that you can...