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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

Making our course home page look more like a web page


As we approach the end of the book, let's just take a look back at Chapter 1. There, I pointed out that, for the young students we are teaching, appearance is everything. It was important for us to make our course page appealing to the eye, and so we spent some time in adding images, changing font styles and colors, and trying to keep our resources in a neat order. We have a busy course, full of content, now. Although our Moodle course has got lots to keep our youngsters occupied, it still has that rather conventional Moodle layout of different topic sections, where we have to scroll down to reach the activity that we want.

On ordinary web sites, the pages are much shorter, and you can get to the other sections by clicking on the text or on image hyperlinks. Now that it's complete, how about making our course look like a normal web page instead of a Moodle course page? Let's be radical; let's redo the whole thing! Instead of having...