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History Teaching with Moodle 2

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History Teaching with Moodle 2

Overview of this book

Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is coming to be used in more and more schools worldwide. History and Moodle complement each other perfectly in terms of content and delivery. This book will show you how to set up tasks and activities that will enable your students to forge a greater understanding of complex issues, bringing History into the 21st century.History Teaching with Moodle 2 presents new and exciting ideas for the delivery of History content making use of tried-and-trusted methods of teaching the subject. By following a sample course, you will find it easy to transform your existing lesson plans into a Moodle course that will become even more efficient, attractive, and useful over time. Make the past come to life using a range of tasks and activities that can consolidate learning for some, enhance understanding for others, and enthuse all. Learn how to add an RSS feed to your home page to display daily 'On this day in history' posts. Create a one-minute quiz about how the Second World War began. Post video footage of a trip to a castle and set some questions for students in anticipation of their next visit. Set up a wiki so that student groups can create their own story about 'murder at a monastery'. Moodle's built-in features allow students to get a better grasp of historical concepts and will rejuvenate their interest in the subject.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Outcomes


Another area to explore in the Gradebook is the use of Outcomes which are measurable targets that a teacher can set for students. They represent useful ways of measuring how students and classes have performed over a series of activities. The Gradebook as it stands helps us to get a picture of how individuals are performing. The use of outcomes, however, can add depth to the picture and inform the teaching that takes place as a result. We are going to add the Essay marking scale that we created earlier to the Gradebook. At present, it represents an alternative way of marking the essays if a teacher prefers not to use a grade out of 20. If, for example, the school has a comment-driven marking system and does not encourage numerical marks, then the Essay marking scale as it stands would act as a suitable alternative. By using outcomes, however, the mark out of 20 could be used in conjunction with the Essay marking scale to provide more depth to the Gradebook, showing where student...