Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

Effective e-learning for younger students using Moodle as your Classroom Assistant

Key Features

• Focus on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go on day after day
• Engage and motivate your students with games, quizzes, movies, and podcasts the whole class can participate in
• Go paperless! Put your lessons online and grade them anywhere, anytime
• Ideal for teachers new to Moodle: easy to follow and abundantly illustrated with screenshots of the solutions you'll build

Book Description

What you will learn

• Make a Moodle class page that your students will want to visit and linger on
• Display your worksheets for students to access at home
• 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
• Get interactive with self-marking games and quizzes by including images, sounds, and animations
• Use Moodle to encourage discussion and decision-making
• Make movies and sound recordings to inspire your class
• Make the most of what s free on the Web to get your children working and learning together

Who this book is for

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.