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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

Showing YouTube videos on Moodle when YouTube is banned


Here's the final practical problem that Liz has presented us with: she's found a couple of really good eye witness amateur videos of the disaster. She's got permission from the owner (very important) to use them in her Moodle course, but she can't show them because our school won't allow us to access YouTube! How do we solve that one?

The answer is to wait until we get home and then download the video onto our own computer. Then we can upload it as a regular file into our Moodle course.

There are several ways of downloading YouTube videos. Some of them require you to install something on your own computer, while others ask you for an email address to send you the video. But the one we're going to use here gives us the video pretty much instantaneously.