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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 focused on making sure that everything on our course page displays properly for our students. We've also helped a new Moodler ensure that her teaching materials are easily accessible. We have provided a link on our course page to LibreOffice —a free alternative to MS Office—for students such as Joe, who don't have Microsoft Office Word at home. We used LibreOffice's PDF conversion facility to change documents into a format that anyone can easily read. After that, we downloaded and used iSpring, a free program that converts slideshows to a format that the children can view without difficulty on their computers. We also downloaded an image resizing and editing program, IrfanView, to help colleague Liz display her photos better on Moodle. Then we learned how to get YouTube videos onto Moodle, even though the site is not allowed in our school. Finally, we investigated potential problems with viewing Moodle activities on Apple devices such as iPads.

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