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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

Chapter 6. Reducing Attention Deficit Disorder Using Great Concentration Exercises

We can reduce Attention Deficit Disorder working with different kinds of visually rich puzzles. It is possible to use many different applications to create exercises that help the student to improve their focus on achieving certain goals in a short period of time. This way, we can help them to reduce their Attention Deficit Disorder in different scenarios.

In this chapter, Alice visits the Aquarium. We will learn how to create visually rich puzzles related to her journey. By reading this chapter and following the exercises we shall:

  • Learn how to create virtual pieces of a puzzle based on a photo

  • Create an exchange puzzle

  • Work with multi-touch devices to solve a puzzle and improve the student's interest in executing exercises

  • Create visual and interactive activities to find words in a grid with letters

  • Combine videos, sounds, photos, letters, and words to improve long-term memory management

Solving a puzzle

Alice and...