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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

Fling the Teacher—making a Moodle-marked homework


Fling the Teacher is yet another free game created by yet another teacher, Andrew Field (where do these teachers find the time?). Its advantage is that it links to the grade book in Moodle in a way that is not so different from the Hot Potato activities, which we worked on in the previous chapter. So while our youngsters think they're playing a game for homework, you get their results saved in Moodle, to justify their fun!

What's more; I've saved the best until last! In Alien Abduction—our first game—the idea was to save Granny from being zapped by the Aliens. The idea here is that our pupils' knowledge won't save their teacher; rather, it will condemn the teacher! It's much more motivating that way! As each question is answered correctly, a trebuchet is constructed, with the head of their teacher on it. Eventually, if all of the questions are answered correctly, the teacher is flung. There is an option at the start to customize the teacher...