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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

Using Moodle to get our students to make decisions


Have you ever done any of those fun online quizzes that abound, such as 'How attractive are you?', 'Which famous person do you most resemble?' and so on. They start by asking you questions such as 'Are you male or female?' and then tailor their answers to suit your selection. These activities work by having alternative branches depending on what we choose each time we click one of the buttons. If you are good at slideshow presentations, you can do similar kinds of things by hyperlinking an action button to a particular slide. Moodle has this branching feature too, in the Lesson module. We're going to use it now to create a decision making exercise for our students. It's great for those higher level thinking skills that we're meant to encourage in the students. We are going to ask our class to put themselves in the shoes of a nine year old girl, Milly, who is about to experience a major flood in her road. They have to make choices for her...