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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 5: Reviewing recordings using Choice


Aim: Using polls to vote on a recording

Moodle modules: Choice

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: *

Students may find it fun and motivating to vote on recordings that they have listened to. Voting is also a natural outcome of Activity 1 in which students discuss which recording to listen to and then vote on their favorite one.

If possible, make the recording available on the same page as the poll. There are various ways of doing this:

  • If it's a website, embed the website in the instructions

  • Use the Moodle audio player

  • Use the add-on audio recorder NanoGong

  • Embed video from YouTube or other similar sites

There's help with all the above in Chapter 2, Getting Started with Moodle.

Here are some ideas for presenting recordings that students can vote on. There's a longer list of possible sources in the introduction to Activity 1.

  • Students listen to a selection of adverts and decide which one they think is best

  • Students listen to two versions of a song and vote...