Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10): Beginner's Guide

Create courses and therapies for children with special educational needs using Moodle for effective e-learning

Key Features

• Focus on building rich and interactive activities to create least restrictive environments, your students will want to go on day after day
• Learn to use netbooks, gamepads, touch screens, microphones, and Webcams to motivate children
• Take advantage of all the new possibilities offered by the creation of rich User Experiences in your activities
• Ideal for teachers who are new to Moodle as it is easy to follow and abundantly illustrated with screenshots of the solutions you'll build

Book Description

What you will learn

• Create activities to match composite pictures with sentences and rich exercises to stimulate both the attention and the concentration.
• Search and organize 3D models to create a 3D scene and work with colors to define skill levels.
• Learn to take advantage of a gamepad and a digital pen to create funny exercises.
• Learn to save portions of the screen as new pictures to use in new activities and create activities to complete words of a sentence according to the pictures.
• Use images and colors to evaluate the mental abstraction of instructions.
• Use pictures, zones, elements, layers, words and colors to evaluate the children association capabilities and the reverse thinking process.
• Create visual activities to find matching pairs and exercise audio patterns recognition and matching.
• Combine videos, sounds, photos, letters, and words to improve long-term memory management.
• Create a complex association activity with visual mathematical operations and their possible results.
• Learn to combine pictures and symbols to improve the concentration when working with mathematical operations.
• Work with image manipulation software to adjust color saturation levels and prepare images with different color tones to use in a colored sequence
• Create exercises to help the parents of the child with SEN to interact with them.
• Use different tools and resources to improve the memory.of the child with SEN

Who this book is for

If you are an SEN teacher or SEN therapist with minimal knowledge of Moodle who is willing to exploit Web 2.0 possibilities using Moodle 1.9 as the background platform, this book is for you.