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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-how to display a Google Map on our course page


Let's learn how to grab and display a Google Map on our Moodle course page:

  1. 1. Go to the Google Maps web site, http://maps.google.com, and in the Search Maps option, type either your chosen location or a zip or postal code.

  2. 2. Once you are happy with your choice, click on the Link button, which is present at the top right of your Google Map screen, as shown in the following screenshot.

  3. 3. Click inside the option Paste HTML to embed in website (and don't worry about all the strange wording coming up!), and copy the text in it.

    Note

    Remember, you can select the entire text by pressing Ctrl+A. You can copy by pressing Ctrl+C. You can paste by pressing Ctrl+V.

  4. 4. Go to your course page on Moodle, and click on Turn editing on.

  5. 5. Click on the Add a resource... menu and choose the Compose a text page option.

  6. 6. In the Name field, type the name of the map that your students need.

  7. 7. In the Compose a text page box, paste (Ctrl + V) the text...