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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

Chapter 7. Wonderful Web 2.0

In the olden days (known as Web 1.0), the Internet was all about e-mails and websites developed by professionals with pages of text that you scrolled down to read. Nowadays, the Internet is for anybody and everybody. Have you ever watched videos on YouTube? Seen photos on Flickr? Maybe even uploaded some yourself? Are you on Facebook or Twitter? You're already in the Web 2.0 world. In this chapter, we shall look at some Web 2.0 applications that can be used in Moodle—both by us teachers, and by our students. Remember—they were born into this world, so let's harness what they're used to!

In this chapter, we're going to link geography with literacy. We shall set our students a project, imagining how they'd react if their home town were flooded. We shall:

  • Get the students to keep a blog of their experience as they work through the project

  • Set up a Google Map of the riverside area that we're focusing on

  • Enjoy transforming ourselves into a talking animated character to...