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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide Table of Contents
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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting started
Chapter 2: Adding worksheets and resources
Chapter 3: Getting Interactive
Chapter 4: Self-marking Quizzes
Chapter 5: Games
Chapter 6: Multimedia
Chapter 7: Wonderful Web 2.O
Chapter 8: Practicalities
Chapter 9: Advanced tips and tricks
Index
  • Chapter 1: Getting started
    • First impressions
      • Time for action-customising our course page
    • Making changes on the course page
      • Getting the best out of the side blocks
      • Time for action-moving, adding, and deleting blocks
      • Useful (and less useful) blocks
    • Making our own side blocks in Moodle
      • Time for action-configuring an HTML block
      • Customizing the middle section
      • Using the HTML editor
    • Where does Moodle store our stuff?
      • Time for action-setting up the course files area
    • Brightening up the course page with images
      • Time for action-uploading images to our Moodle page
    • Adding links to other web sites in Moodle
      • Time for action-making a 'click here' link to a web site
    • Summary
    • Chapter 2: Adding worksheets and resources
      • Putting a worksheet on Moodle
        • Time for action-uploading a factsheet on to Moodle
        • Time for action-displaying our factsheet on our course page
      • Putting a week's worth of slideshows into Moodle
        • Time for action-getting a whole folder of work into Moodle in one go
        • Time for action-displaying a whole folder on Moodle
      • Making a 'click here' type link to the River Thames web site
      • Recap—where do we stand now?
      • Creating a worksheet about flooding, directly in Moodle
        • Time for action-typing our flooding worksheet straight into Moodle
      • Online worksheets—some ideas to consider
      • Making our page look prettier
        • Time for action-improving the look of our course page
      • Summary
      • Chapter 3: Getting Interactive
        • How do we do all this?
        • Getting our class to reflect and discuss
          • Time for action-setting up a discussion forum on Moodle
          • How do we moderate the forum?
          • Why use a forum?
        • Carrying on the conversation in real time—outside of school
          • Time for action-setting up a chat room in Moodle
          • Why use Chat? (and why not?)
        • Making our own class Glossary
          • Time for action-getting students to create their own Glossary
        • Showcasing the plans in a database
          • Time for action-setting up a database
        • How far have we come?
        • Giving our class a chance to vote
          • Time for action-giving students a chance to choose a winner
          • Finding out the students' choice
          • Why use Choice?
          • Announcing the winner
        • Writing creatively in Moodle
          • Time for action-setting up an online creative writing exercise
        • Marking students' work on Moodle
          • Other ways to set and mark work in Moodle
        • Collaborative story-telling
          • Time for action-getting our class to work together on an online story
        • Summary
        • Chapter 4: Self-marking Quizzes
          • Forget the paper
          • Hot potatoes—cool learning
            • Time for action-getting a program to create our self-marking activities
            • Time for action-matching rivers to continents with the JMatch Hot Potato
            • Time for action-getting our matching activity into Moodle
          • Consolidating knowledge with Hot Potatoes activities
            • Time for action-creating a self-marking gap-fill exercise
            • Time for action-making a self-marking crossword exercise
            • Time for action-making a self-marking mixed up words exercise
            • Time for action-making a self-marking multiple-choice quiz
          • Adding pictures to our Hot Potatoes
            • Time for action-creating an exercise where words are matched with pictures
          • Words of warning
          • Making an assessment test with a Moodle quiz
            • Time for action-set up a Moodle quiz as test on rivers and continents
          • The quiz question screen is in two parts
            • Time for action-making a multiple-choice question
            • Time for action-making a true/false question
            • Time for action-making a matching question
          • Other types of questions
          • Summary
          • Chapter 5: Games
            • Making an Alien Abduction (hangman) game
              • Time for action-finding and making the Alien Abduction game
            • Garbage in the bins—making a sorting exercise
              • Time for action-finding and making the bin game
            • Bish Bash Bosh—a differentiation game with a hammer!
              • Time for action-finding and creating the Bish Bash Bosh game
            • WordWeb—making a spelling game using Spellmaster
              • Time for action-finding and making the WordWeb game from Spellmaster
            • I know what you're thinking!
            • Fling the Teacher—making a Moodle-marked homework
              • Time for action-finding and setting up 'Fling the Teacher'
              • Time for action-creating a 'Fling the Teacher' game
              • Time for action-getting our game to work in Moodle's grade book
            • Summary
            • Chapter 6: Multimedia
              • Making a sound recording to put into Moodle
                • Time for action-getting Audacity
                • Time for action-setting up to record
              • Improving the recording and involving our class
                • Time for action-getting rid of the coughs and giggles
                • Time for action-adding background music
                • Time for action-saving our recording
                • Time for action-adding a link to the audio file
              • Making a film to put into Moodle
                • Time for action-creating our movie
              • Improving our movie with effects and sound
                • Time for action-adding special effects to our movie
                • Time for action-adding sound to our movie
              • Getting the sound to match our images
              • Adding the finishing touches to make our movie ready for Moodle
                • Time for action-adding our opening credits
                • Time for action-saving and uploading the movie into Moodle
              • Summary
              • Chapter 7: Wonderful Web 2.O
                • Web 2.0 words of warning
                • Getting the pupils to Blog!
                  • Time for action-introducing our project with a blog entry
                  • Words of warning
                • Putting a map onto Moodle
                  • Time for action-how to display a Google Map on our course page
                  • Words of warning
                • Introducing the project with a cartoon character
                  • Time for action-creating a moving and a talking teacher
                  • Words of warning
                • Telling our story through a cartoon animation
                  • Time for action-creating our animation
                  • Time for action-saving our animation which is ready for Moodle
                  • Words of warning
                • Summarizing our project in a word cloud
                  • Time for action-making a Wordle word cloud
                  • Words of warning
                • Summary
                • Chapter 8: Practicalities
                  • Miss, I can't do the homework coz I haven't got Word at home!
                    • Time for action-getting a free alternative to Microsoft Office
                  • Choosing the best file type for Moodle
                    • Time for action-saving a Rivers homework as a pdf file for
                    • ease of access on Moodle
                  • Making it easier for our students to view our slideshows
                    • Time for action-getting a program that displays our interactive presentations
                    • Time for action-saving our slideshow so that everyone can see it
                  • Making sure that all of our images look correct on Moodle
                    • Time for action-getting a program to help us edit images for Moodle
                    • Time for action-resizing a single photo to display on Moodle
                    • Time for action-re-sizing several photos, all in one go
                  • Showing YouTube videos on Moodle when YouTube is banned
                    • Time for action-how to download a YouTube video to use on Moodle
                  • Summary
                  • Chapter 9: Advanced tips and tricks
                    • Using Moodle to get our students to make decisions
                      • Time for action-creating a decision-making exercise (DME)
                      • Time for action-finishing and viewing our DME
                    • Keeping our students up-to-date with the latest news
                      • Time for action-getting some appropriate news feeds for our topic
                      • Time for action-keeping our students informed with a Moodle RSS block
                    • Finishing off—what else can Moodle do for me?
                    • Evaluating our course with a Moodle questionnaire
                    • Rewarding our students efforts with a certificate
                    • Making our course home page look more like a web page
                      • Time for action-adding image links to our topic sections
                      • Time for action-putting our activities into web pages
                      • Time for action-link the topic web page to its image
                    • Concealing our activities to make our course page neater
                      • Time for action-making our course page look more like a web page
                    • Summary
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