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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

Improving the recording and involving our class


If we're happy with the recording, once we've pressed the stop button, we can save it and that's about it. But sometimes, it isn't that simple. Thus, in this section, we'll have a very quick look at how we can improve our sound file. Audacity gives us lots of options for all types of fancy sound effects. We can disguise our voice by speeding up or slowing down the recording. We can also add an echo effect, sound effect, or background music to the recorded voice. The creative possibilities of Audacity would make up a book on their own. Thus, we cannot do them justice in just one part of our chapter. If you ever have time to play with the other controls, do so—the fun results would be worth it! But if you can't set aside the time, why not make Audacity a class project for your students to perform, and upload their productions into the Moodle? We recorded one student, just to become familiar with the program. Why not now pass the buck onto the...