Moodle 2 for Teaching 4-9 Year Olds Beginner's Guide By Nicholas Freear
Pa..ckt Publi..shing 2011 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 1849513287 | PDF | 33 MB

Use Moodle to create quizzes, puzzles, and games to enhance the learning ability of your students
A beginner's guide with lots of practical examples
Learn how to create a wealth of exciting activities to make teaching and learning fun
Minimize the stress of lesson planning with lots of exercises that can be used again and again
Written to Moodle 2, the examples in this book can also be used in previous versions of Moodle
In Detail

Moodle is a virtual learning environment that is being used in more and more schools worldwide. It is ideal for teaching a younger age group as interactive lessons enable children to learn quicker and with greater ease.
Moodle 2 for Teaching 4-9 Year Olds Beginner's Guide will help you to adapt your existing lesson plans to online Moodle courses and will give you ideas to create new activities, quizzes, and puzzles to make the learning process fun and interactive for young children.
The interactivity of Moodle means that it is perfect for teaching younger children as they can learn by watching, listening, and doing. Learn how to create activities and quizzes that are specially adapted for younger children and are quick and easy for you to incorporate in Moodle. Other highlights include spot-the-difference exercises, games, and embedded puzzles.
Teaching young children has just got easier with the help of Moodle to create fun, interactive, and informative learning activities.
What you will learn from this book
Create a course and find your way around Moodle
Use the Moodle Database module to create story-telling activities
Create visual spot-the-difference exercises using the lesson module
Embed visualizations of historic and time-based events, using the SIMILE Timeline widget
Add fun games including word-search and hidden picture puzzles to your courses
Explore how to embed Flash-based puzzles to Moodle
Combine face-to-face teaching with online activities in a classroom environment
Approach
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, this book will steadily guide the reader through exercises using practical examples that are easy to build, which are illustrated with screenshots. The activities become steadily more sophisticated and include combining the content from one module with another.
Who this book is written for
This book is aimed at teachers of children aged 4 to 9 who wish to integrate the Moodle open source virtual learning environment into their teaching. It assumes a basic knowledge of the Web but no prior knowledge of Moodle, although it is expected that you will either have Moodle already set up in your school, or a friendly IT technician who can do it for you.

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