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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 feedback from our students


It is important for our own professional development that we constantly strive to improve our teaching, and adapt it according to our successes and setbacks. For this, we need the input of our students (it's the Student Voice concept, for which Moodle is perfectly suited). We could use Moodle's Choice activity module as a very basic survey. But the issue with this is that the pupils are able to respond to only single word, or short phrase suggestions that we give them. If we want a more detailed evaluation of our efforts in Moodle, the Feedback module fits the bill perfectly, as we can include choice-type option button answers and also give them free rein to comment in the textboxes. And don't think that just because the students haven't reached double figures, they aren't capable of giving insightful opinions!