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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-re-sizing several photos, all in one go


Let's learn how to re-size several photos at once.

  1. 1. Start IrfanView.

  2. 2. Select menu option File | Batch conversion/Rename.

  3. 3. You will see a screen similar to the following screenshot:

  4. 4. Click on Look in and navigate to the folder of photos that you want to resize.

  5. 5. Click on the folder. The images will appear individually.

  6. 6. Click on the Add all button. Their file names will appear in the input file box at the bottom of the screen.

  7. 7. In the Output directory, choose the location to which you want the folder of resized photos to be saved. If you want it in the same place as the current folder, click on Use current ('look in') directory.

  8. 8. Under Batch conversion settings, click on Advanced.

  9. 9. In the box that is displayed, set your new size, and ignore everything else!

  10. 10. Click on OK.

  11. 11. Back on the main screen, click on Start Batch.

  12. 12. Sit back and relax as IrfanView does all the work of resizing your photos, for you!

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