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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-getting a free alternative to Microsoft Office


Students who don't have MS Office installed in their computer can search the Internet for some software application that supports MS Office created files. One such application is the OpenOffice. Let's learn how to download it.

  1. 1. Go to the website http://www.openoffice.org/.

  2. 2. Click on I want to download OpenOffice.org.

  3. 3. If you have a Windows PC, click on Download now! If you have a Mac computer, click on Get more platforms and languages and select your download file from there.

  4. 4. If you are using Internet Explorer and you get a message saying that the download is blocked for security reasons, click on the message, and then click on the download this file.

  5. 5. When the next screenshot comes up, click on Run (if you have only the save file link, that's ok instead).

  6. 6. If you are prompted to agree to the installation, go ahead and agree.

  7. 7. Click on Next to install OpenOffice.

  8. 8. Click on Unpack, then click on Next until you get to...