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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Activity 12: Collaborative writing using Wiki


Aim: Help students write different parts of a writing project

Moodle modules: Wiki

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: **

Getting students to cooperate on a writing project can be beneficial in several ways. They can motivate each other, help each other to write and contribute one part of a bigger project. They can also compare and contrast their writing with other students' writing.

In this activity, students use a wiki to make different and separate contributions to the same project. A wiki is an editable web page or set of web pages. Any course member can edit any page on a wiki. You can also use the Moodle Group feature with wikis. Then only group members can see their own wiki. There's another example of a wiki in Chapter 3, Vocabulary Activities, Activity 7.

We're going to use a wiki to help students contribute to different parts of a School Guide. They'll need preparation first. This could either be face to face in class, or you could set up...