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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

Making a film to put into Moodle


So we can do sound. Now, let's do both sound and vision! If you recall Chapter 3, Getting Interactive, one of the ways in which we used a database or a glossary was by enabling students to upload resources for others to see and use. If we asked them to upload their favorite photos of our class trip to a river into a Moodle database, we could make use of the pictures in the movie that we're about to create. With our new-found expertise in Audacity, we shall get one of the gang of students to record the narrative, and we shall add that to our movie. Students and parents (who have given permission for their offspring to be featured in the movie) will love to see the action and it will give the next year's hopefuls an insight into what the trip might entail.

Although we are actually making a movie (in this instance, an animated slideshow) of an event, don't think that's all you could do. With selective usage of images and text, you could create a short film to...