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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 risen to the challenge of advanced Moodling, using our recently-acquired skills to tackle more complex features. We have created a Decision Making Exercise (DME) using a Moodle Lesson, got our students to evaluate our efforts with the Feedback activity, learned how to control what they do and when they do it with Conditional Activities, and gained an insight into some optional extras of Moodle, such as a Certificate. Finally we added a finishing touch to our course by making it look more like a web page.

We've learned that Moodle offers a wide variety of ways for our students to learn—from us, from each other, and also on their own. We've learned that working on Moodle isn't just about uploading word-processed worksheets (which might not even be viewable to some of our youngsters). Rather, it's about providing opportunities to engage, to explore, and above all to enjoy the pleasures of acquiring and evaluating new knowledge in a modern, multimedia environment...