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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 - executing the activity to paint images in Moodle


It is time to use a digital pen as a mouse to fill the closed areas according to the instructions. We will solve the activity as a student.

We can also use a classic mouse to solve the exercise. However, a digital pen makes it even more fun.

  1. 1. Connect the USB digital pen to the computer and install its driver if you haven't already done so.

  2. 2. Click on the course name (Zoo) and switch your role to student.

  3. 3. Click on the Painting images according to the instructions link on the corresponding week. The web browser will show the image with the scene and the four sentences with the instructions and the accompanying images.

  4. 4. Right-click on the image with the scene and select Save picture as in the context menu that appears. Save the file as myzoo.png in your documents folder. Your web browser will download the file to the selected folder.

Note

In order to keep the instructions simple, we aren't including detailed step-by-step information...