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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-finding and making the bin game


Let's find and create a bin game, where the student is expected to decide which statements are true and which are false, by dropping the statements into the correct bin.

  1. 1. Go to the web address http://www.classtools.net.

  2. 2. Click on Select a Template, and then choose Dustbin Game, as shown in the screenshot below.

  3. 3. Click on Go!.

  4. 4. When you get to the How to Play screen, click on Start.

  5. 5. Enter your statements in the text boxes (bins) available on the next screen. You'll have four bins; ignore the ones that you don't want to use. Our True or False sorting exercise, looks like this:

  6. 6. Enter a password in the Password Protect block, to stop students from being able to alter your words.

  7. 7. Click on the blue diskette icon, available to the right of the Proceed button.

  8. 8. When asked whether you want to open or save the file, choose to save it somewhere on your computer.

  9. 9. That's it. Done!

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