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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-saving our recording


We have created the audio recording with the help of Audacity. Now, we need to upload it into our Moodle course, for which we have to first save it into our computer.

  1. 1. Go to File | Export as MP3.

  2. 2. You'll be directed to your hard disk drive. Find a place to save your file on the hard disk, and give it a name.

  3. 3. If you get a message saying that the computer is saving your tracks into one single track, just agree!

  4. 4. When the box shown in the following screenshot appears, add the required information about the file, and then click on the OK button.

We did it! We have created our sound recording! And more importantly, we now have the skills to show the students how to make their own recording. Why not play the file now and see how it sounds? Then, we'll look at two ways of playing it into Moodle.

Have a go hero-displaying our MP3 file on Moodle

Let's upload the audio recording file, which we have saved on our computer, into our Moodle Course.

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