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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

Making a film to put into Moodle


So we can do sound. Now, let's do both sound and vision! If you recall Chapter 3, one of the ways in which we used a database or a glossary was by enabling students to upload resources for others to see and use. If we asked them to upload their favorite photos of our class trip to a river into a Moodle database, we could make use of the pictures in the movie that we're about to create. With our new-found expertise in Audacity, we shall get one of the gang of students to record the narrative, and we shall add that to our movie. Students and parents (who have given permission for their offspring to be featured in the movie) will love to see the action, and it will give the next year's hopefuls an insight into what the trip might entail.

Although we are actually making a movie (in this instance, an animated slideshow) of an event, don't think that's all you could do. With selective usage of images and text, you could create a short film to introduce a new topic...