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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 pupils to blog!


The word blog, apparently, comes from web plus log. A blog is just an online diary or journal. Blogs are a very commonly used Web 2.0 application and there are many blogs around. But, we don't need to go outside of Moodle, as every user has his or her own space to blog, as part of their user profile. If you log into Moodle and then go to the Navigation block and click on My Profile, you will find your blog there:

Students have these settings too and they operate in just the same way as ours. These blog entries can be seen by everyone on Moodle if we choose to allow that.

It would be better though, if we can find a way quickly to see blog entries relating to our Rivers and Flooding course, rather than wading through people's blog entries on other subjects. We can do that if we add a block called Blog menu to our course. It allows pupils and teachers to link their blog entry to the course. Let's do it!