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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

By: Mary Cooch

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Words of warning


There is an important point to be made here—not to put you off Hot Potatoes, but just to make you aware.

Hot Potatoes quizzes are great fun and very useful as homework, consolidating what's been taught in class. However, they shouldn't really be used as assessment tests—crafty children, over the years, have found ways to get the answers without thinking too hard. They'll press the back button for instance, if they get one wrong, and allow themselves another try. Some of my students also have discovered that if you click on Hint, you get one letter of the word. When the Hint button is pressed again, you get another letter—until you get the whole word given to you. If you want to set a test in Moodle that you don't have to mark (and who wouldn't?) and is pretty much hack-proof, then you should use the Moodle quiz—as we shall be doing next.