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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

Showing YouTube videos on Moodle when YouTube is banned


Here's another practical problem that Liz has presented us with: she's found a couple of really good eye witness amateur videos of the disaster. She's got permission from the owner (very important) to use them in her Moodle course, but she can't show them because our school won't allow us to access YouTube! How do we solve that one?

The answer is to wait until we get home and then download the video onto our own computer. Then we can upload it as a regular file into our Moodle course.

There are several ways of downloading YouTube videos. Some of them require you to install something on your own computer, while others ask you for an e-mail address to send you the video. But the one we're going to use here gives us the video pretty much instantaneously.