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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

Time for action — finding and making the Alien Abduction game


Let's first find and then create a game named Alien Abduction.

  1. 1. Go to the web address http://www.what2learn.com/.

  2. 2. Click on Make game.

  3. 3. Next, click on the link Create a game next to Alien Abduction. You'll see that there are other games as well—which you can create some other time.

  4. 4. Start typing in the names of the objects that you want to include in the game. We need to enter a title and eight words. Ours is about flooding; so it might look a bit like the following screenshot:

  5. 5. Check your words and click on Create Game. You'll then be asked to type in some letters to prove you are a human. Do that and click on Submit.

  6. 6. That's it! Done! You'll get the following message, displaying the number allotted to your game:

  7. 7. If you click on the link Play your game followed by the number allotted to the game, it will take you to your game, and you can play it right there. Copy the web address (URL) of this game. We'll need it in...