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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-keeping our students informed with a Moodle RSS block


We have searched for the news sources that provide us with essential weather updates. We have also copied the URL of an RSS feed for a weather news web sites. It's now time to add these RSS feeds into our Moodle course.

  1. 1. With editing turned on, go to Blocks, click on Add, and select Remote RSS feeds.

  2. 2. Click on the Click here to configure this block to display RSS feeds link, in the Remote News Feed block.

  3. 3. In the screen that is displayed next, click on the Manage all my feeds tab.

  4. 4. In the Add a news feed URL box, paste (using the Ctrl+V keys on the keyboard) the URL (web site address) of one of the feeds (or one of your own) that we have saved in the Notepad or the Word document.

  5. 5. In the Custom title field, give the RSS feed a name that the students will understand. Now, our window appears as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. 6. Click on the Validate Feed link. This just checks that the newly-added RSS feed is...