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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-getting Audacity


We need a software program for recording sounds. Let's download a software program Audacity. It is a free open source program for recording and editing sounds.

  1. 1. If you already have Audacity installed (some teachers might have it installed on their school computers), then you can skip the first two steps.

  2. 2. Go to the web site http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.

  3. 3. If you are running Windows, click on the Download Audacity link. This will have numbers next to it for the latest version; at the time of writing, this was 1.2.6. If you have a Mac, click on Other downloads.

  4. 4. Follow the instructions on the next screen; the download will start automatically.

  5. 5. When the download has finished, go back to the web site, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows.

  6. 6. Click on the Lame MP3 encoder link, and follow the instructions on the next screen.

Note

What is the Lame MP3 encoder? The best format of the sound file for us to put into Moodle is an MP3 file— the...