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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-getting a program to help us edit images for Moodle


For this purpose, we need a simple program that will change the size of our photos or other images without losing their quality or distorting them.

If you are using a Mac, you will have a facility known as Preview, which does the job we want.

If you have Microsoft Office, there is a very basic image editing program called Microsoft Picture Manager, which is worth practicing with.

However, if you are on a PC and don't have Microsoft Office installed in your computer, there is a free program that we're about to use. This program will resize the single photo Liz wants in her label. Furthermore, Liz can show the students all of the photos in the folder at one go. It'scalled IrfanView.

  1. 1. Go to the web site http://www.irfanview.com/.

  2. 2. Click on the IrfanView download link, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Next, click on the button named Download Now. If you get a message saying that downloading files is blocked, click...