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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

By : Mary Cooch
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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

By: Mary Cooch

Overview of this book

Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how!Moodle 2 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. The book focuses on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go to day after day.This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Learn how to put your lessons online in minutes; how to set creative homework that Moodle will mark for you and how to get your students working together to build up their knowledge. Throughout the book we will build a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14, on Rivers and Flooding. You can adapt this to any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Recap—where do we stand now?


We have learnt a lot of interesting things so far. Let's just have a recap. We now know how to:

  • Upload and display individual worksheets (as we've worked on the River Thames)

  • Upload and display whole folders of worksheets (as we did with the River Processes slideshows folder)

  • Make a click here type link to any website that we want, so that our students will just need to click on this link to get to that website

We're now going to have a break from filling up our course for a while, and take a step to the side. Our first venture into Moodle's features was the File option, but there are many more yet to be investigated. Let's have a closer look at those Add a resource... options in the following screenshot, so that we know where we are heading:

The following table shows all of the Add a resource... options. What are they, which is the one we need, and what can we safely ignore? You might recognize one or two already. We shall meet the others in a moment.

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