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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 sound to our movie


We have added images and effects to the image transition, but something still seems to be missing. Oh yes! How can a movie be complete without voice? Let's learn how to add sound to our movie.

  1. 1. From the list of tasks on the left, choose Import audio or music.

  2. 2. Select the track you want to add from your computer's hard disk drive.

  3. 3. Choose the track, and then click on Import, just as you did with the pictures. The imported sound file will appear in the middle section of the Windows Movie Maker screen, along with your images.

  4. 4. On the lower-left, press the drop-down arrow next to the Storyboard, and select Show Timeline. The strip will look different now as the next screenshot demonstrates. That's OK!

  5. 5. Select the sound clip with your cursor and drag the sound clip to the part of the timeline called Audio/Music.

  6. 6. You will be able to see the track underneath all of the images.

  7. 7. Click the Play button under the preview screen to watch and listen...