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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've taken a look at how to use multimedia to showcase our students' work. We learned how to create, edit, and upload a sound file of a student reading a poem to Moodle. We discovered how to create, edit, and upload a film of a school trip to Moodle. Finally, we saw how to display our sound recording in two different ways, giving us a choice of appearance.

Additionally, and very importantly, we've also learned the basics of two programs, Audacity and Windows Movie Maker 2.6, which we can now share with our class students to inspire them to be creative. Remember the old Native American proverb: Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I might not understand. Involve me and I'll remember.

In the next chapter, we shall consider more ways of using Moodle to involve our students with a rich choice of options from the world of Web 2.0.