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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

Making our own class Glossary


Finally, the thinking part is over; now it's time to get started. Our campsite needs a name, and thirty heads are better than one. The next task will have the students suggesting interesting names for the site and the reasons why they think that their name should be chosen.

For this, we are going to use Glossary, which is similar to an online dictionary. The only difference is that it is you (or the students) who adds all the information into the Glossary. You can add single words, phrases, or even images to a glossary. You can even set it up in such a way that when you use one of the keywords in your course, Moodle automatically makes a link to the entry for that word in the glossary. The students can then click on these links to learn more about them.

Glossaries are useful for teachers who want to provide key terms for a particular topic, but students learn best from them when they build up the vocabulary themselves. We're going to get our students to add...