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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10): Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10): Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. But what does it have to offer to the children with special educational needs who want a fun, inspiring, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle 1.9 empowers educators achieve all these set of rich experiences with many related activities - this book shows you how! This book offers solutions to developing interactive courses and therapies for children with special education needs who are between the age group of 5 to 10 years. It teaches to combine Moodle 1.9 with the opportunities offered by Web 2.0, free and commercial software, and general purpose hardware devices. This book will guide the reader step-by-step in using many different tools to create exciting experiences to offer great motivation to children with special educational needs, considering the opportunities for online education. This book will help the reader to build interactive and rich online content oriented to children with special educational needs using different techniques and open source tools. It teaches you to create exercises as if you were playing with children at the school, the zoo, the beach, the supermarket, a birthday party, an aquarium, a farm, at the shopping, a circus or at home. You will be able to work with drawings, music, sounds, videos, photographs and text, and you will combine all these pieces into nice experiences for children who need to find extra motivation to improve their learning skills. Besides, it will teach you to take advantage of general purpose, non-expensive hardware like gamepads, joysticks, digital pens also known as pen-sketches, multi-touch screens, netbooks and touchpads. The usage of some of these hardware devices combined with visually rich activities usually offer children an extra motivation to focus on solving the exercises.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10 Year Olds)
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Time for action - grouping text blocks and changing colors


It is time to create the text blocks with the possible answers for a pop quiz related to the 3D scene.

  1. 1. Start Hot Potatoes and click on JQuiz. A new window with the JQuiz application will appear.

  2. 2. Enter Discovering sentences related to 3D scenes in the Title textbox.

  3. 3. Select Multiple-choice in the combo box on the upper-right corner.

  4. 4. Click on the textbox below the title's textbox on the right-hand side of question number 1.

  5. 5. Select Insert | Picture| Picture from local file from JQuiz's main menu. Select the previously exported bitmap image image010201.png in C:\School and click on the Open button. A dialog box will appear displaying the image preview and some options.

  6. 6. Click on OK. JQuiz will show the following HTML code in the textbox:

    <img src="image010201.png" alt="image010201.png"
    title="image010201" width="640" height="504"></img>
    
  7. 7. Click on the corresponding Answers textbox and enter the text shown in the next table for each row, as seen in the next screenshot:

Row label

Text to enter in the Right (jumbled) items textbox

A

<h2 style="color:green">

<em>There is a calculator and a book in the school bag.</em>

</h2>

B

<h2 style="color:green ">

<em>There is a calculator and a book under the school bag.</em>

</h2>

C

<h2 style="color:green">

<em>There is a calculator and four books next to the school bag.</em>

</h2>

  1. 8. Activate the Correct checkbox corresponding to the row labeled with a B. This is the correct answer for the multiple-choice style quiz.

  2. 9. Select File | Save from JQuiz's main menu. Save the file as quiz0102.jqz in the previously created folder, C:\School.

  3. 10. Next, select File | Create Web Page | Standard Format. JQuiz will create a new web page. Save the new file as quiz0102.html in the aforementioned folder.

  4. 11. A new dialog box will appear. Click on View the exercise in my browser. You want to preview the exercise.

  5. 12. The default web browser will appear showing the image and the three possible answers. You will be able to see these three sentences with a big green font, as shown in the next screenshot:

What just happened?

We inserted the image with the 3D scene and we prepared the sentences for our discovering sentences exercise, using a multiple-choice format.

We used JQuiz to edit and preview the following three sentences as possible answers below the 3D scene:

  • There is a calculator and a book in the school bag.

  • There is a calculator and a book under the school bag.

  • There is a calculator and four books next to the school bag.

Note

We used our well-known HTML tags again to improve the fonts and color used for the sentences.