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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

Getting the sound to match our images


What if our soundtrack lasts longer than our pictures do? Of course, we can add more pictures, but what if we don't have any more pictures? Well, if it is a music clip, we can:

  • Either edit it in Audacity to be the correct length and the correct bit of music and then re-import it

  • Or go to the end of the music clip, click on it, and drag it to the location where the images end, as shown in the following screenshot:

But, as it is our pupil speaking, we don't want to lose any of the lovely narrative. So, we're going to stretch out the pictures instead.

Click on an image—just as you did with the sound file—and drag it out. You'll see the number of seconds it runs for (Duration) increases as you drag it. Do this with all of the images until they fit the commentary.

What if our pictures last longer than our soundtrack? We can't stretch out sound as we do with still images. If it's music, we can edit it in Audacity to fit the length of the images by repeating a...