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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 — how to download a YouTube video to use on Moodle


Make sure that you have permission to do this! Carefully read YouTube's advice on copyright issues at http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_center.

  1. 1. Find your YouTube video and copy (Ctrl+C) its web address (URL) as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Go to the website http://mediaconverter.org.

  3. 3. Click the icon Enter a link.

  4. 4. Paste (Ctrl+V) that video address into the input box, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. 5. Click on OK and then on Go to the Next Step.

  6. 6. Click the drop-down arrow for ---select a file type--- and choose flv. (You could choose another type, such as wmv, but this one will do for us.)

  7. 7. Click on Next step and ignore the next page of instructions.

  8. 8. Click on Start.

  9. 9. Sit back and relax while the site does its job!

  10. 10. Click on the download link to download the video to somewhere that you can store it ready for Moodle.

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