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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

Time for action-getting some appropriate news feeds for our topic


We know that RSS feeds are used to publish the latest updates and news. Let's find a news source that supports RSS feeds and gives out information on river Thames, and add this source into our Moodle course.

  1. 1. Go to the web site http://riverconditions.visitthames.co.uk/.

  2. 2. Scroll down to the RSS logo on the right and click the words Click here to subscribe via RSS.

  3. 3. Copy (using the Ctrl+C keys on the keyboard) the URL (web site address) that appears next, which will be http://riverconditions.visitthames.co.uk/feed.rss.

  4. 4. Paste (using the Ctrl+V keys on the keyboard) this URL into Notepad or a Word document, to keep it safe for later use.

  5. 5. Go to the BBC weather feeds web site on http://tinyurl.com/2ya9hu.

  6. 6. Click on International Weather Headlines, located at the rightmost side of the screen.

  7. 7. Copy the URL that appears next, which will be http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/headlines/intl_weather_headline.xml.

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