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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 creating the Bish Bash Bosh game


Let's go online and then create the Bish Bash Bosh game.

  1. 1. Go to the web address http://www.sandfields.co.uk/games/.

  2. 2. Scroll down the page until you see the image shown in the following screenshot (which is what the game itself looks like):

  3. 3. Click on the download link, and a pop-up window will appear. Click on Save.

  4. 4. Navigate to the location on your computer where you saved the game. It should be a zipped folder (which has a zipper on its icon).

  5. 5. Right-click on this folder and choose Extract All... option.

  6. 6. Open the newly-extracted folder (which will have same name, but no zipper in the icon!) and you should see the four files shown in the following screenshot:

  7. 7. Right-click on the file called List, and choose Open With | Notepad from the context menu.

  8. 8. Don't panic! You'll see some French words placed in between a lot of punctuation marks (web code, actually). They come in pairs: one word that's right (correct) and another...