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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)

Random Glossary Entry


Having created a glossary, why not get it to do a bit of work for you? A Random Glossary gives you the opportunity to show entries on the course page thus displaying students work in the way it was originally intended. It also reminds the students that the glossary is there to be used and many students have commented that it is a way of passively absorbing information through a subtle form of repetition. A random glossary entry from our medieval terms glossary is straightforward to set up.

Create a Random Glossary using a block

The creation of a Random Glossary involves our first use of Blocks within Moodle. You may have noticed the presence of Blocks on the left- and right-hand side of the main course topics. In the last section about glossaries, we saw the way the Recent activity block pointed out the presence of new entries awaiting approval by the teacher. Blocks can be added to the course page and configured to show different types of information. In the next chapter...