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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

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.
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Preface

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In this chapter, we've created a variety of activities to test our students' knowledge of the World's rivers. We've set up all the activities, which are going to mark themselves in Moodle. In this chapter, we created a matching exercise with words and a gap-fill exercise which can be adapted for both high-ability and low-ability children. We created a crossword that the students can enjoy solving, either individually on the computer or in the class using a projector. After that, we mixed up some clauses and got the students to think and reorder them correctly, and we then devised a multiple-choice exercise for homework. Finally, we designed a timed and password protected end of unit test in Moodle, with different types of questions.

I said at the start, that this chapter was all about work/life balance. After the work—of setting up my Hot Potatoes exercises and my end of unit assessment—I can now enjoy my life—sitting back and letting Moodle mark and record the grades for me. Next...

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