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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've focused on making sure that everything on our course page displays properly for our students. We've also helped a new Moodler ensure that her teaching materials are easily accessible. We have:

  • Provided a link on our course page to OpenOffice—a free alternative to MS Office—for students such as Joe, who don't have Microsoft Office Word at home

  • Used OpenOffice's pdf conversion facility to change documents into a format that anyone can easily read

  • Downloaded and used iSpring, a free program that converts slideshows to a format that all children can view without difficulty

  • Downloaded an image resizing and editing program, IrfanView, to help colleague Liz display her photos better on Moodle

  • Learned how to allow YouTube videos on Moodle, even though the site is not allowed in our school.

We can be happy in the knowledge that even though Joe's Internet connection is slow, and he doesn't have MS Office, he'll still be able to view his teacher's resources. And he'll have...