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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

Making sure that all of our images look correct on Moodle


Haven't we already done this in Chapter 1? Uploaded photos? Yes, but we're just going to do some tweaking now—especially, as Liz has some images that she'd like to display. She has a folder of photos from her cousin who was actually involved in this traumatic disaster in 2004. Liz wants to display the folder of photos and wants to use one of them, smaller in size, in the label to introduce her materials. So we need to look at how to resize photos.

It is better to resize your photos before you upload them into Moodle. If you use the handle in the HTML editor to resize a photo, the image could appear distorted. If you change its dimensions online, the image might look smaller even though the file size is still as large. Think of it as a song. Both the lyrics as well as the music last only for three minutes. However, if you're told you can have only one minute of music, but you still have to fit in the three minutes of lyrics, it just...