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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10): Beginner's Guide
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When we create exercises for e-Learning platforms, the main focus is to present well-organized information for the students. However, children with special education needs require unique activities. They like computers and they usually enjoy visually rich and interactive activities because they allow them to focus on solving simple or complex exercises. Graphics, videos, sounds and toy-like hardware are their best friends when they need to improve their skills. It is necessary to combine multimedia resources with funny environments to allow them to enjoy their homework. They don't need boring exercises. Luckily, Moodle is an open e-Learning platform that is indeed useful to support the implementation of the most exciting activities for children with special education needs.
We can combine Moodle, Web 2.0 tools, commercial and free software, and general purpose hardware devices to develop rich and interactive activities with pictures for children with special education needs.
In this chapter, Alice, a seven year old girl, goes to school. We will learn how to create activities related to her journey. By reading it and following the exercises we shall:
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