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Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
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Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

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By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

Connecting the ideas of students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. Performing these types of tasks through Moodle will help you overcome complex situations while you teach. If you are looking for a guide that will show you how to improve your skills in using Moodle, as well as enhance your way of teaching in virtual classrooms, your search ends right here.This cookbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building a complete reading comprehension, writing, and composition course in Moodle 1.9 starting with simple activities and ending with complex ones. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve writing using Moodle as a virtual learning platform.This book begins with simple activities in order to enhance students' writing, such as connecting activities developed in different ways either using Moodle or free and open source software available in the Web 2.0. Then, it moves into matching images and different pieces of writing; it shows how to import different pictures to the Moodle course in different ways. It caters for a great variety of images that will brighten the creativity of students.Then reading comprehension is explored from the characters' point of view; students should explore the reading in such a way to become part of it and write as if they were part of the story.Twitter and Facebook social networks are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social on fashion interaction hand in hand with the virtual classroom. There are step-by-step activities involving these websites and inserting Ishikawa's management technique in order to enhance group writing.Once you have reached this point of the book there are other writing techniques explored such as mathematical association to writing, cube technique, discussion clock, mind mapping, and tree diagrams among others. A step-by-step guide is provided for creating these techniques, uploading them into the Moodle course, and creating the writing activity.The book covers writing sentences, poems, songs, descriptions, compositions, essays, articles, cartoons, ads, and creating and describing superheroes.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Chapter 1. Connecting Ideas

Connecting the ideas of our students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. This is primarily because they find it very hard to do. Therefore, these types of Exercises using Moodle 1.9.5 will help you to overcome such situations. Your students will be attracted to the proposed assignments because they are quite appealing.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Matching sentences
  • Unjumbling and connecting sentences
  • Using Twitter and Facebook for surveys
  • Brainstorming ideas using Forums
  • Answering a quiz designed in a lesson
  • Uploading pictures from Microsoft Word
  • Connecting events—uploading drawings from Microsoft Word
  • Linking to a website and writing a description
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