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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

Chapter 7. Wonderful Web 2.O

In the olden days (known as Web 1.0), the Internet was all about emails and web sites, developed by professionals, with pages of text that you scrolled down to read. Nowadays, the Internet is for anybody and everybody who can get in on the act. Have you ever watched videos on YouTube? Seen photos on Flickr? Maybe even uploaded some yourself? Are you on Facebook or Myspace? Then you're already in the Web 2.0 world; joining in is what it's all about! In this chapter, we shall look at some Web 2.0 applications that can be used in Moodle—both by us, the teachers, and by our students. Remember—they were born into this world, so let's harness what they're used to!

In this chapter, we're going to link geography with literacy and set our students a project imagining how they'd react if their home town were flooded. We shall:

  • Get the students to keep a blog of their experience as they work through the project

  • Set up a Google Map of the riverside area that we're focusing...