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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 it easier for our students to view our slideshows


Didn't you just do that? Well, yes. One way to ensure that our wonderful presentations are accessible to all our students, irrespective of their home set up, is to convert the presentation into .pdf files. However, a .pdf file is pretty static. It won't include any animations, sound, or video. It basically takes an interactive slideshow and converts it into an online paper version. Not good enough. Our colleague Liz has spent a long time on her PowerPoint presentations, and she is not keen on losing their effects. We're going to work with her on a slideshow that she created on the New Orleans floods, and ensure that it stays as jazzy on Moodle as it is offline! To do this, we shall download yet another free application—which converts PowerPoint slideshows into interactive Macromedia Flash files. You don't need to know anything about Flash to be able to do this. However, it's worth noting that you and your students need to have a recent...