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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

Choosing the best file type for Moodle


As I said earlier, uploading our worksheets into Moodle is as simple as we first thought. The situation could be such that we've got Word 2007, but our students only have Word 2003. It could also be that we've got Word 2003, and the students don't have any version of Microsoft Office at all. Or they only have Microsoft Office created documents on their computer, but do not have Microsoft Office installed. Using OpenOffice can be very helpful to you in such cases. However, for us—as teachers—there is another possibility.

Our colleague Liz wants to know the best way to display her worksheets in Moodle, without much effort. Her worksheets are a mixture of .doc, .odt, and .docx depending on the computer she works on. As she wants the students to only view her materials and not download or edit them, what I'd suggest to her is that she save her material as .pdf files.

Note

PDF stands for Portable Document Format, and is a type of file that works on different...