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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 creating the Bish Bash Bosh game


Let's go online and then find the Bish Bash Bosh game.

  1. 1. Go to the web address http://www.sandfields.co.uk/games/.

  2. 2. Scroll down the page until you see the image shown in the following screenshot (which is what the game itself looks like):

  3. 3. Click on the download link, and a pop-up window will appear. Click on Save.

  4. 4. Navigate to the location on your computer where you saved the game. It should be a zipped folder (which has a zipper on its icon).

  5. 5. Right-click on this folder and choose Extract All... option:

  6. 6. Open the newly-extracted folder (which will have same name, but no zipper in the icon) and you should see the four files shown in the following screenshot:

  7. 7. Right-click on the file called list, and choose Open With | Notepad from the context menu: (Mac users will choose Text Edit.)

  8. 8. Don't panic! You'll see some French words placed in between a lot of punctuation marks (more web code, actually). They come in pairs...