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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 — creating a moving and a talking teacher


Let's create an animated, moving, and talking teacher and make our Moodle course learning even more enjoyable to the students.

  1. 1. Go to the website http://www.voki.com/ and create yourself a free account.

  2. 2. Click on Create A New Voki, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. You will see an image and several boxes with options for editing your character.

  4. 4. In the Customize Your Character option, click on the HEAD tab. Click on the right and left arrows to choose the type of character that you want to start with (CLASSIC are the most conventional types). Select the gender of the character, MALE or FEMALE.

  5. 5. Scroll down to see the choices available; click on the one that you want.

  6. 6. Your chosen character will appear in the large screen to the left-hand side. Alter its features by using the Color/Tweak box underneath all the heads.

  7. 7. In the Customize Your Character option, click on the CLOTHING tab. As with the HEAD tab, click on...