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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 — getting a program that displays our interactive presentations


Let's download a program that will convert our PowerPoint slideshows into interactive Flash files.

  1. 1. Go to the website http://www.ispringsolutions.com.

  2. 2. Find the image as in the next screenshot and click on the Download iSpring Free arrow.

  3. 3. You'll be asked to sign up for a free account. Agree—it's OK and will give you access to the download box.

  4. 4. If you are using Internet Explorer and are prompted to Run or Save, click on Run. If you are using Firefox, you will only get the Save File option. Click on it, save the file, and then open it. (If you were wondering, .msi stands for Microsoft Installer.)

  5. 5. If asked whether you want to run the software, agree and click on Run!

  6. 6. In the setup wizard, click on Next.

  7. 7. Agree to the terms and conditions, and then click on Next until the software is installed.

  8. 8. Click on Finish. The application will open up and prompt you to Launch PowerPoint.

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