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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've have taken a look at how to use multimedia to showcase our students' work. We've learned how to:

  • Create, edit, and upload a sound file of a student reading a poem into Moodle

  • Create, edit, and upload a film of a school trip into Moodle

  • Play our sound recording or movie in two different ways, bearing in mind their appearance

Additionally, and very importantly, we've also learned the basics of two programs, Audacity and Windows Movie Maker, which we can now share with our class students to inspire them to be creative. Remember the old Native American proverb:

"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I might not understand. Involve me and I'll remember".

In the next chapter, we shall consider more ways of using Moodle to involve our students' with a rich choice of options from the world of Web 2.0.