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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

Time for action — adding our opening credits


To make the movie even more interesting, let's add an opening credit and a closing credit.

  1. 1. From the list on the left, choose Make titles or credits.

  2. 2. Choose the option Title at the beginning, and type in the title of the movie:

  3. 3. Watch it in the preview screen.

  4. 4. To change the way it runs, click on the Change the title animation link.

  5. 5. To change the type, color, and size of the text, click on the Change the text font and color link.

  6. 6. Click on Done, add title to movie.

What just happened?

We used Windows Movie Maker's titles and credits feature to add a beginning to our movie. We learned how to type in our own text and then personalize its color, font, size, and the way it runs in the movie.

Note

Did you notice that when you first clicked on titles and credits there were four options? Although we are just creating opening and closing credits here, you can also add captions to the actual images, or before each individual image. This is perhaps...