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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-adding sound to our movie


We have added images and effects to the image transition, but something still seems to be missing. Oh yes! How can a movie be complete without voice? Let's learn how to add sound to our movie.

  1. 1. From the list of tasks on the left, choose Import | Audio or Music.

  2. 2. Select the track you want to add from your computer's hard disk drive.

  3. 3. Choose the track, and then click on Import, just as you did with the pictures. The imported sound file will appear in the middle section of the Windows Movie Maker screen, along with your images.

  4. 4. On the lower-left, press the drop-down arrow next to the Storyboard, and select Timeline.

  5. 5. Select the sound clip with your cursor and drag the sound clip to the part of the timeline called Audio/Music.

  6. 6. You will be able to see the track underneath all of the images.

  7. 7. Click the Play button under the preview screen to watch and listen to your movie.

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We've added a soundtrack to our movie by finding...