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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 — creating our memory game


To create our memory game, we click through a number of stages by clicking on Next step at the bottom right of the screen.

  1. 1. Give the game a title and add your name.

  2. 2. Choose how many pairs of cards you wish to use. (We'll choose 6.)

  3. 3. Choose the design of the game. We're choosing the Monster Castle game:

  4. 4. Choose a sound to play for when they get it wrong.

  5. 5. Choose a message for when they get it right.

  6. 6. Choose TEXT, PICTURE, or SOUND for each row. We'll keep it simple with TEXT for both rows.

  7. 7. Type in words that match top and bottom, as in the next screenshot:

  8. 8. Save the game as a .zip file:

What just happened?

We went to the Australian site Languages Online and downloaded one of their Game Maker programs which are templates for different types of vocabulary games. We made a memory game and saved it as a ZIP file. Now it's over to you!

Have a go hero(1) — upload the game to Moodle

The file we saved is a zipped (compressed) file and it needs...