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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-introducing our project with a blog entry


Let's create an introduction to our project, with the help of a blog entry:

  1. 1. Click on your profile, as above, and then click on the Blog tab, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

  2. 2. Click on Add a new entry.

  3. 3. Type a title in the Entry title box, and your blog entry in the Blog entry body, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. Scroll down, and in the option Publish To, choose anyone on this site.

  5. 5. Click on Save changes.

What just happened?

We used the blogging facility in our profile on Moodle to make a blog entry to introduce the new project to our pupils. We can add to it as we go along, specifying exactly what we'd like the students to do.

Words of warning

These are really warnings, just a couple of issues that you need to be aware of.

  • In Moodle, blogs are attached to people, not courses. Thus, if you click on somebody's username in Moodle, you will usually see their blog. Be aware, then, that the blogs in your students...