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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 — adding background music


Now that we have removed all of the imperfections in our recording, let's make it a bit more interesting by adding some background music.

Note

Although it's tempting to rip our students' chart-topping favorites off a CD and add them to our podcast, copyright rules just don't allow us to do this. We can have up to 30 seconds of professional music, but if our track is long, it's safer (and nicer for our students) to record and use music they've made themselves. Alternatively, we can go to the Creative Commons website, http://creativecommons.org, and search for a suitable music track there.

Let's assume that for Jamie's poem we have a music file that one of the music classes have already made for us. It should end in .mp3 or .wav. What next?

  1. 1. Select menu option File | Import |Audio:

  2. 2. Browse for the music file that you want to be played.

  3. 3. Select it, and click on Open.

  4. 4. The file will appear underneath the track that we've just selected.( Don't worry...