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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)

Summary


Open source software is available to create high quality interactive resources with ease. Audacity and Xerte are two examples of high quality software that takes away the pain of creating pages of content. Xerte uses an impressive range of templates that have different pedagogical benefits to learners and enable the teacher to find the right balance of resources to fit particular learning strategies. If you want students to be able to read text while listening to a voice recording of the same text in order to reinforce understanding then Xerte provides the templates and Audacity provides the means to easily create the sound file. Together they are a potent means of creating durable learning resources. The reality is that they are free, fun to play with, and a teacher should view them as an artist views the array of tools at his or her disposal to create a masterpiece. The resources that are produced dovetail neatly with Moodle and clearly complement each other. Support for the tools...