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
- 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
- How to create and manage users
- 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
- Video
- Movie Maker
- iMovie
- Jake Ludington's Media Blab
- Mashable
- Video hosting
- Subtitles
- Widgets
- Word processors
- XML file creator
- Assessment
- Part 4: General design principles for creating a good Moodle course
- Moodle course design: Do's and don'ts
- Part 1: Overview of Moodle
- Chapter 3: Vocabulary Activities
- Activity 1: Setting up a class glossary
- Here's how to do it
- Adding categories
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 5: Using tags to highlight vocabulary and link to example stories
- Preparation
- Administration
- Activity
- Result
- Activity 1: Setting up a class glossary
- Activity 6: Using polls to vote on the meaning of words
- Variation 1: Defining a word
- Here's how to do it
- Other variations
- Variation 1: Defining a word
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 8: Using a Personal Glossary to set up simple individual vocabulary lists
- Here's how to do it
- Instructions for students
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Variation 1: Using a text as a stimulus for a gap-fill
- 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
- Variation 1: Matching words
- 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
- Variation 1: Building a dialog
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 2: Using the Lesson module to get students to notice grammar points
- Here's how to do it
- Preparation
- Setting up the Lesson
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Variation 1: Creating a dictation using Lesson
- 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
- Variation 1: Multiple-choice grammar quiz
- 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
- Variation 1: Providing grammar feedback on a written text
- Activity 1: Creating a Podcast lecture to present grammar in a lively way
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Variation 1: Matching pictures to a text
- Activity 7: Using Lesson for text prediction
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 1: Using Forum for a book discussion
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 5: Using Journal for reflective or private writing
- Here's how to do it
- Helping students use Journal
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Variation 1: Blog stories
- Activity 7: Writing encyclopedia entries using Glossary
- Here's how to do it
- A few more things to think about
- Images
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 11: Summarizing RSS news items
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 12: Collaborative writing using Wiki
- Here's how to do it
- Activity 1: Raising awareness of text structure using Quiz
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- 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
- Reviewing and improving your quiz tests
- 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
- Here's how to do it
- 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
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