Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds Beginner's Guide
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- Ideal for teachers new to Moodle: easy to follow and abundantly illustrated with screenshots of the solutions you'll build
- Go paperless! Put your lessons online and grade them anywhere, anytime
- Engage and motivate your students with games, quizzes, movies, blogs and podcasts the whole class can participate in
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 258 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : May 2012
ISBN : 1849518327
ISBN 13 : 9781849518321
Author(s) : Mary Cooch
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Beginner's Guides, e-Learning, Moodle, Open Source
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 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 2.0
Chapter 8: Practicalities
Chapter 9: Advanced Tips and Tricks
Index
- Chapter 1: Getting Started
- First impressions
- Time for action – customizing 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 text editor
- Brightening up the course page with images
- Time for action – uploading images to our Moodle page
- What if you don't have any good images on your computer?
- Adding links to other websites in Moodle
- Time for action – making a click here link to a website
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Adding Worksheets and Resources
- Putting a worksheet on Moodle
- Time for action – uploading a factsheet on to Moodle
- What can you pick from the File picker?
- Putting a week's worth of slideshows into Moodle
- Time for action – getting a whole folder of work into Moodle in one go
- Making a 'click here' type link to the River Thames website
- Recap—where do we stand now?
- Making a multimedia 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
- Why use Choice?
- Announcing the winner
- Writing creatively in Moodle
- Time for action – setting up an online creative writing exercise
- Time for action – 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
- How can we save the scores in Moodle
- Words of warning
- Adding pictures, sound, or video to our self-marking exercises
- Making an assessment test with a Moodle quiz
- Time for action – setting up a Moodle quiz as test on rivers and continents
- The quiz question screen
- Time for action – making a multiple-choice question
- Time for action – adding a video to a Matching question
- Previewing and using our Moodle assessment test
- Other types of questions
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Games
- Making an Alien Abduction (hangman) game
- Time for action – finding and making the Alien Abduction game
- Time for action – showing just the game without the web page
- 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
- Time for action – uploading and displaying our game on Moodle
- Making a Monster memory game from Languages Online
- Time for action – downloading Memory Game Maker
- Time for action – creating our memory game
- 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 gradebook
- 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 – displaying the audio file in a player on the page
- Making a film to put into Moodle
- What can we use to make our movie?
- Getting Windows Movie Maker
- 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 2.0
- Web 2.0 words of warning
- Getting the pupils to blog!
- Time for action – adding the blog menu block so we can blog inside our course
- 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 an online picture book
- Time for action – signing up and making our picture book
- 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 because 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
- Using Moodle on your i-devices
- What's good
- What's not so good
- 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
- Getting feedback from our students
- Time for action – setting up a feedback activity at the end of our course
- Controlling the learning path with Conditional Activities
- Time for action – scheduling conditional activities (1)
- Time for action – scheduling conditional activities (2)
- Time for action – scheduling conditional activities (3)
- Time for action – finalizing conditional activities
- Finishing off—what else can Moodle do for me?
- 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 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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- Set up your lessons directly onto Moodle to save paper and effort
- Get your students doing homework on Moodle so you can grade and give feedback online
- Use Moodle to encourage discussion and decision-making
- Introduce your children to the world of blogging within the safety of Moodle
- Get interactive with self-marking games and quizzes by including images, sounds, and animations
- Make movies and sound recordings to inspire your class
- Learn how to make games that will please both the children’s need to play and your headteacher’s need for assessment grades
- Make the most of what's free on the Web to get your children working and learning together
Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how!
Moodle 2 For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. The book focuses on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go to day after day.
This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Learn how to put your lessons online in minutes; how to set creative homework that Moodle will mark for you and how to get your students working together to build up their knowledge. Throughout the book we will build a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14, on Rivers and Flooding. You can adapt this to any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
This book is part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series. Written in a friendly tone, the book starts at the very beginning with a blank Moodle page and you are taken step by step through the most useful features of Moodle, helped with many illustrative screenshots.
This book is for regular, non-technical teachers of pre-teen or early teenage children. It assumes no prior knowledge of Moodle and no particular expertise on the web. Classroom assistants may also find this book a very useful resource. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content.
