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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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! This book 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. 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. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Time for action-matching rivers to continents with the JMatch Hot Potato


I'm going to get my students to match up the five rivers with the continents they're situated in. I'm going to set a time limit on it: really quick—maybe a minute. Later, we'll do all of this together in lesson time,as I have a projector. I'll upload it to Moodle so that, for homework, they can each try to beat the time we got in class. Here goes:

  1. 1. Click on JMatch. When the box comes up, type in a title and put your pairs in (correctly matched up) order, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. If you want more than five pairs, click the arrow next to 1.

  3. 3. Once you have specified all of the pairs that you want to use, click on File and then click on Save. And you are done!

    Note

    That's as easy as it can be. However, you will get a rather blank and grey looking matching exercise that will not inspire your students, visually, to give it a go. Let's try to pretty it up a bit first, before we save it and upload it into...