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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Activity 1: Supporting student investigation of knowledge or issues using the Webquest module


Aim: Help students read and evaluate issues using web materials

Moodle modules: None

Extra programs: Add-on Webquest

Ease of setup: ***

In this webquest students will write a critical evaluation. We'll need to choose the subject and questions carefully, according to the age and interests of the students and their level of language. Our example is a webquest for teenagers to investigate the film "Slumdog Millionaire" and the situation it describes. They'll need a general introduction which sensitizes them to the film and then some guiding questions. Finally, they'll need some resources which help them evaluate the slum situation in India. This is what the first page of the webquest will look like when it's finished:

Here's how to do it

  1. In editing mode on your course, select Add an activity.... from the drop-down menu.

  2. Choose Webquest.

  3. Complete the set-up page, paying attention to the information below:

    Settings...