Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: What Does Moodle Offer Language Teachers?
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Moodle
Chapter 3: Vocabulary Activities
Chapter 4: Speaking Activities
Chapter 5: Grammar Activities
Chapter 6: Reading Activities
Chapter 7: Writing Activities
Chapter 8: Listening Activities
Chapter 9: Assessment
Chapter 10: Extended Activities
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: What Does Moodle Offer Language Teachers?

What is Moodle?
Assumptions
Who is this book for?
Why another book on Moodle?

Assessment
Making Moodle look good

Communicative Language Teaching

Age and level of students
What languages can you teach using Moodle?
Suggested approach to using the book

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Moodle

Part 1: Overview of Moodle

Installing Moodle
Topography of a Moodle site
Topography of a Moodle site: Front page
Topography of a Moodle site: Course page
Moodle overview: Core blocks
Moodle overview: Add-on blocks

Personal glossary
Exabis E-portfolio

Moodle overview: Core modules
Moodle overview: Add-on modules

Part 2: Site administration how-tos

How to create and manage users

Authentification
Accounts
User profile fields
Defining roles
System roles

How to create and manage courses

Course request
Backups

How to set up activities

Quiz settings

How to upload files to Moodle
How to upload images to Moodle
How to set up a grading system

General settings
Outcomes
Letters (grade letters)

How to edit labels and instructions

Language settings
Language editing
Language packs

How to manage modules
How to manage blocks
How to manage sticky blocks
How to set up remote RSS feeds
How to manage filters
How to control the HTML editor
How to manage tags
How to control My Moodle
How to enable users to add RSS feeds
How to set up a course calendar
How to create a Flash audio player
How to import glossary entries
How to download videos from YouTube
How to display other websites within your Moodle site
How to avoid spam

Part 3: Some useful external programs and resources

Assessment

Websites relating to assessment

Audio
Avatars
Directories of websites

RSS feeds
Websites

Firewalls
Hot Potatoes
HTML

Learning some basic HTML to edit your pages
KompoZer

Images
Paint program
International accent marks and diacritics
Reminder service
Scheduling service
Screen capture
Screencasts
Twitter
Video

Movie Maker
iMovie
Jake Ludington's Media Blab
Mashable
Video hosting
Subtitles

Widgets
Word processors
XML file creator

Part 4: General design principles for creating a good Moodle course

Moodle course design: Do's and don'ts

Chapter 3: Vocabulary Activities

Activity 1: Setting up a class glossary

Here's how to do it

Adding categories

Activity 2: Using a Glossary to create a "word of the day" feature

Here's how to do it

Activity 3: Using comments in the Glossary module for students to comment on keywords

Here's how to do it

Activity 4: Using the rating facility to provide feedback on students' definitions

Here's how to do it

Rating scale
Glossary
Rating students' entries

Activity 5: Using tags to highlight vocabulary and link to example stories

Preparation
Administration
Activity
Result

Activity 6: Using polls to vote on the meaning of words

Variation 1: Defining a word

Here's how to do it

Other variations

Activity 7: Using a chat session transcript to analyze vocabulary errors

Here's how to do it

Review 1: Review errors in a word processor
Review 2: Review errors in a wiki
Review 3: Review errors by comparing to a teacher recording

Activity 8: Using a Personal Glossary to set up simple individual vocabulary lists

Here's how to do it

Instructions for students

Activity 9: Creating a crossword in Hot Potatoes

Here's how to do it

Activity 10: Using a Database to set up categorized vocabulary lists

Here's how to do it

Formatting the data view

Activity 11: Creating a gap-fill using the Quiz module

Variation 1: Using a text as a stimulus for a gap-fill

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Completing the lyrics of a song from an audio file using Audacity

Here's how to do it

Variation 3: Completing texts based on charts and other images

Example 1: Family tree diagram
Example 2: Picture of an activity

Activity 12: Creating a text/text matching activity using the Quiz module

Variation 1: Matching words

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Creating a picture/text matching activity using the Quiz module

Here's how to do it

Variation 3: Creating an audio/text matching activity using the Quiz module

Chapter 4: Speaking Activities

Activity 1: Helping students improve pronunciation using the Forum module
Here's how to do it

Preparation

Activity 2: Creating a word stress matching activity using the Quiz module

Example 1: Word stress
Example 2: Sounds with audio
Example 3: Intonation patterns
Variation 1: Getting students to identify word stress

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Getting students to identify intonation

Here's how to do it

Activity 3: Adding a sound extension to vocabulary lists

Here's how to do it

Activity 4: Using OUwiki to help students learn by repeating

What it will look like
Here's how to do it

Activity 5: Dialog Minus One—helping students build dialogs using a podcast

Which recording program?
Which Moodle module?
Here's how to do it

Recording
Making the podcast

Activity 6: Preparing for class speaking practice using a Wiki

Variation 1: Building a dialog

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Preparing for a debate

Here's how to do it

Activity 7: Preparing a class discussion using Chat

Here's how to do it

Activity 8: Producing presentations using an OUblog

Here's how to do it

Activity 9: Presenting a monolog using the Quiz module

Here's how to do it

Adding an Essay

Chapter 5: Grammar Activities

Activity 1: Creating a Podcast lecture to present grammar in a lively way

Here's how to do it

Making the recording
Setting up the Podcast

Activity 2: Using the Lesson module to get students to notice grammar points

Here's how to do it

Preparation
Setting up the Lesson

Activity 3: Using polls to get students to vote on the correctness of grammar items

Here's how to do it

Activity 4: Practicing grammar through dictation

Variation 1: Creating a dictation using Lesson

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Creating a collaborative dictation using a Wiki

Here's how to do it

Activity 5: Using the Quiz module to practice grammar

Variation 1: Multiple-choice grammar quiz

Here's how to do it

Variation 2a: Gap-fill focusing on grammar using Quiz

Here's how to do it

Variation 2b: Gap-fill focusing on grammar using Hot Potatoes

Here's how to do it

Variation 3: True or false? Decide if a sentence is grammatically correct or not

Here's how to do it

Activity 6: Using a chat session transcript to analyze grammar errors
Activity 7: Peer grammar review using the Forum module

Here's how to do it

Activity 8: Providing feedback on grammar using the Assignment module

Variation 1: Providing grammar feedback on a written text

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Providing grammar feedback on a spoken text

Chapter 6: Reading Activities

Activity 1: Using Forum for a book discussion

Here's how to do it

Activity 2: Using Web pages to read and listen

Here's how to do it

Preparing a recording
Creating a web page

Activity 3: Using Choice for voting on texts

Here's how to do it

Activity 4: Using Blog to explore texts

Here's how to do it

Activity 5: Using Questionnaire to explore texts

Here's how to do it

Preparation
Activity

Activity 6: Using Hot Potatoes to investigate texts

Variation 1: Matching pictures to a text

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Identifying meaning of individual words using multiple-choice questions

Here's how to do it

Activity 7: Using Lesson for text prediction

Here's how to do it

Chapter 7: Writing Activities

Activity 1: Raising awareness of text structure using Quiz

Here's how to do it

Part 1: Analyzing the order of text elements
Part 2: Adding an essay question
Part 3: Student attempts at the quiz

Activity 2: Practicing register using Lesson

Here's how to do it

Activity 3: Using Mindmap to brainstorm writing assignments

Here's how to do it

Activity 4: Producing effective personal profiles

Here's how to do it

Writing profiles

Activity 5: Using Journal for reflective or private writing

Here's how to do it

Helping students use Journal

Activity 6: Using a Blog or Web page for creative writing

Variation 1: Blog stories

Here's how to do it

Variation 2: Blog stories

Here's how to do it

Variation 3: Using Book to display student descriptions of their houses

Here's how to do it

Activity 7: Writing encyclopedia entries using Glossary

Here's how to do it

A few more things to think about
Images

Activity 8: Promoting fluency writing using Chat

Here's how to do it

Activity 9: Using Assignment to submit and evaluate semi-authentic writing

Here's how to do it

Activity 10: Writing a slideshow commentary using Forum

Here's how to do it

Setting up a forum
Aligning photos

Activity 11: Summarizing RSS news items

Here's how to do it

Activity 12: Collaborative writing using Wiki

Here's how to do it

Chapter 8: Listening Activities

Players
Sources of listening material
Showing the text before listening
Activity 1: Using Forum to motivate students

Here's how to do it

Activity 2: Using Mindmap to anticipate content of a recording

Here's how to do it

Activity 3: Investigating texts using Quiz

Here's how to do it

Setting up the quiz
Listening and matching question
Ordering question
Multiple-choice question
Gap-fill question

Activity 4: Prediction activity using Lesson

Here's how to do it

Activity 5: Reviewing recordings using Choice

Here's how to do it

Activity 6: Reviewing recordings using Questionnaire

Here's how to do it

Activity 7: Developing students' critical faculties through online discussion about recordings they've listened to

Here's how to do it

Chapter 9: Assessment

Assessing language—working through an example
What is assessment: A brief overview of assessment and how Moodle supports it
Who is assessing whom?
Moodle assessment tools

Quiz module
Quiz module: Categorizing questions in the Item Bank

Here's how to do it

Quiz module: Question types
Using the Quiz module for different test types
Adaptive items

Adaptive items in the Quiz module
Using Overall feedback to suggest higher or lower level tests

Feedback
Scales
Creating a new scale

Here's how to do it

Outcomes

Here's how to do it

Lesson module

Interesting variables

Moodle Gradebook

Reviewing and improving your quiz tests

Multiple-choice item distracters—are they working?
Using wild cards with short-answer questions
Using regular expressions with short-answer questions
Allowing alternatives—using “|”
Allowing a character to be included or not—using "?"
Allowing a range of answers—using "[ ]"
Removing case sensitivity—using "/i"

Security

Useful Moodle add-ons

Hot Potatoes
Lolipop module
Mobile Quiz module

Here's how to do it

NanoGong audio recorder
Ordering question type
Regular Expression Short Answer question type
Questionnaire module
Stamp collection

Here's how to do it

Workshop

Afterword

Chapter 10: Extended Activities

Planning a sequence of activities
What this chapter covers
Webquests

Webquest components
Limitations to the Webquest module

E-portfolio

Limitations

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

Here's how to do it

Creating teams

Activity 2: Creating a display of student work using the E-Portfolio block

Here's how to do it

Activity 3: Using Workshop to support iterative writing

Here is how to do it

Activity 4: Using Reader to create an extended reading program

Here's how to do it

Index

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