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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 10: Using a Database to set up categorized vocabulary lists


Aim: Help students set up personal vocabulary lists

Moodle modules: Database

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: ***

So far we've looked at several ways of building vocabulary lists. In Activity 1 we built a simple class glossary. In Activity 8 we set up a personal glossary for users to use independently. The personal glossary is simple to set up and easy to use, but there may be times when we'd like a more sophisticated personal glossary. That's what this activity will set up. The database allows us to build and customize vocabulary repositories for each student.

The reason this activity has come nearer the end of the chapter is because it's slightly more complex to set up. A simpler but more comprehensive solution will arrive if group mode gets added to the Glossary module, but that doesn't exist at the time of this writing.

This is what we're aiming for. The result looks clean and simple.

Here's how to do it

  1. Set up a database...