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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-adding our opening credits


To make the movie even more interesting, let's add an opening credit and a closing credit.

  1. 1. From the list on the left, choose Titles and credits.

  2. 2. Choose the option Title at the beginning, and type in the title of the movie

  3. 3. Watch it in the preview screen.

  4. 4. To change the way it runs, click on the Change the title animation link.

  5. 5. To change the type, color and size of the text, click on the Change the text font and color link.

  6. 6. Click on Add Title.

    Note

    Did you notice that when you first clicked on titles and credits there were four options? Although we are just creating opening and closing credits here, you can also add captions to the actual images, or before each individual image. This is perhaps something for you and your class to experiment with in future movie creation sessions!

And now it is once more over to you.

Have a go hero-adding our closing credits

Adding closing credits works in exactly the same way as adding opening credits. You...