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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-creating our movie


Assuming that we have the Windows Movie Maker installed on our computer, let us:

  1. 1. Find and open Windows Movie Maker on your computer. It is usually located in All Programs | Accessories | Entertainment | Windows Movie Maker. However, sometimes, it might simply be located in All Programs | Windows Movie Maker.

  2. 2. Don't be put off by the complex look of the next screen. Consider it in four parts:

    • On the left, we have a list of tasks.

    • In the middle, we have an image storage area.

    • On the right, we have the preview screen.

    • At the bottom, we have the film strip (timeline or storyboard) to which we'll add our images, subtitles, and commentary.

  3. 3. Click on the Import Pictures link in the list of tasks. You'll be taken to your hard disk drive, from where you can select the photos that you want to add to the movie.

  4. 4. If you want to include all of the images from one folder, click on Ctrl and A.

  5. 5. Click on the Import button as shown in the following screenshot:

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