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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 — getting Audacity


We need a software program for recording sounds. Let's download the software program Audacity. It is a free open source program for recording and editing sounds.

If you already have Audacity installed (some teachers might have it installed on their school computers), then you can skip the first two steps.

  1. 1. Go to the website http://audacity.sourceforge.net/.

  2. 2. If you are running Windows, click on the Download Audacity link. This will have numbers next to it for the latest version; at the time of writing (March 2012) this was version 2.0. If you have a Mac, click on Other downloads.

  3. 3. Follow the instructions on the next screen; the download will start automatically.

  4. 4. When the download has finished, go back to the website, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows.

  5. 5. Click on the Lame MP3 encoder link, and follow the instructions on the next screen.

    Note

    What is the Lame MP3 encoder? The best format of the sound file for us to put into Moodle is...