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
- First impressions
- 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
- Putting a worksheet on Moodle
- 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
- Making an Alien Abduction (hangman) game
- 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
- Making a sound recording to put into Moodle
- 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
- Miss, I can't do the homework coz I haven't got Word at home!
- 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
- Using Moodle to get our students to make decisions
