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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

By : Mary Cooch
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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide

4.7 (3)
By: Mary Cooch

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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!Moodle 2 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds 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. The book focuses on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go to day after day.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. Learn how to put your lessons online in minutes; how to set creative homework that Moodle will mark for you and how to get your students working together to build up their knowledge. Throughout the book we will build a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14, on Rivers and Flooding. You can adapt this to any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
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Preface

Time for action — making a self-marking mixed up words exercise


Another application of Hot Potatoes is called JMix. This is helpful for creating activities where the students have to rearrange words or phrases. When you save it as a web page (.htm), you can set it up in two different ways. You can either set it up in such a way that when the students click on the word or the phrase, it magically moves itself into the next part of a sentence, or you can have it as a drag-and-drop activity. We're going to set up our application to put the correct rivers in the correct continents—again! This information will be indelibly printed on their brains once they've been through every Hot Potato! Let's learn how to set it up.

  1. 1. Click on JMix.

  2. 2. Enter a name in the Title box.

  3. 3. In the Main sentence box, type in your sentences—a few words at a time, separating them one under the other, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. 4. Think about possible alternative correct answers and add them to Alternate Sentences...

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