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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 — setting up to record


We have downloaded the software application named Audacity for the purpose of recording audio. Now, let's set up the Audacity application.

  1. 1. Click on the Audacity logo. Don't worry about the complex-looking screen; we only need to use a couple of the features.

  2. 2. Make sure your computer's sound is switched on. Check the loudspeaker icon on the bottom-right corner of your screen. If it has a red X, it's off. Click on that icon to turn the loudspeaker on.

  3. 3. Click on the red recording circle and speak out loud. If you are able to see sound waves on the screen, as shown in the following screenshot, you have an inbuilt microphone. Click the square button to stop. You can move on to step 8.

  4. 4. If you don't have an inbuilt microphone, you'll need to connect an external microphone. If you have an external microphone, plug it into the computer now, making sure that it's turned on.

  5. 5. Go to menu option Edit | Preferences | Devices | Recording and select the...