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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 a moving and a talking teacher


Let's create an animated, moving, and talking, teacher and make our Moodle course learning even more enjoyable to the students.

  1. 1. Go to the web site http://www.voki.com/ and create yourself a free account.

  2. 2. Click on Create A New Voki, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. You will see an image and several boxes with options for editing your character.

  4. 4. In the Customize Your Character option, click on the HEAD tab. Click on the right and left arrows to choose the type of character that you want to start with (CLASSIC are the most 'conventional' types). Select the gender of the character, MALE or FEMALE.

  5. 5. Scroll down to see the choices available; click on the one that you want.

  6. 6. Your chosen character will appear in the large screen to the left. Alter its features by using the Color/Tweak box shown below.

  7. 7. In the Customize your Character option, click on the CLOTHING tab. As with the HEAD tab, click on the right and left arrows...