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History Teaching with Moodle 2

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History Teaching with Moodle 2

Overview of this book

Moodle is an open source virtual learning environment that is coming to be used in more and more schools worldwide. History and Moodle complement each other perfectly in terms of content and delivery. This book will show you how to set up tasks and activities that will enable your students to forge a greater understanding of complex issues, bringing History into the 21st century.History Teaching with Moodle 2 presents new and exciting ideas for the delivery of History content making use of tried-and-trusted methods of teaching the subject. By following a sample course, you will find it easy to transform your existing lesson plans into a Moodle course that will become even more efficient, attractive, and useful over time. Make the past come to life using a range of tasks and activities that can consolidate learning for some, enhance understanding for others, and enthuse all. Learn how to add an RSS feed to your home page to display daily 'On this day in history' posts. Create a one-minute quiz about how the Second World War began. Post video footage of a trip to a castle and set some questions for students in anticipation of their next visit. Set up a wiki so that student groups can create their own story about 'murder at a monastery'. Moodle's built-in features allow students to get a better grasp of historical concepts and will rejuvenate their interest in the subject.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Making files accessible to students


Normally, when teaching the year 7 History course, teachers might want to give students an essay question similar to the title of Topic 1, 'Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?'. It may be the first essay that the students have to do for us so we want to be clear about our expectations of them and their piece of work. We can make available to the students a brief document that outlines what we expect of them in terms of their essay style and their own knowledge. The document entitled 'How I will mark the essay' is a typical example. How do we make the document available to students?

In this section, we shall look at how to create a link on the course page within the relevant topic. When the link is clicked, the document appears in a separate window with Moodle still in the background. The following procedure works with any type of document or file that you wish to upload to the course and make available to your students. A link on the course page...