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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

Keeping our students up-to-date with the latest news


Apart from adding more strings to our teaching bow, the aim of this chapter is to give you an insight into some of the more complex features in Moodle. We just used a Lesson, which was an activity module. We're now going to work on a Moodle block. This particular block would have been too much to take in at the start of the book. However, with a few hours of practice under our belts, we can do this one. No worries!

You might see that some web sites have links to news items that change constantly when new events happen. You can actually choose to have these news items come straight into your computer or your email, if you wish. Some people do this to get specific news of their interest, for example, sports news or education news. We're going to get the latest geographical events and put them straight into our Moodle course by using something called RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

RSS is simply a type of web page that sends out news updates...