Moodle 2 for teaching 7-14 year olds [[electronic resource] ] : beginner's guide : effective e-learning for younger students, using Moodle as your classroom assistant / / Mary Cooch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779275603321
• Autore: Cooch Mary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, U.K., : Packt Pub., 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-67748-1; 9786613654410; 1-84951-833-5
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Collana: Open source : community experience distilled
• Disciplina: 005.3; 371.33/4
• Soggetti: Instructional systems - Design; Computer-assisted instruction - Computer programs; Open source software
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: On cover: Learn by doing : less theory, more results.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; 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 pageWhat 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 MoodleWhy 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 MoodleCollaborative 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Effective e-learning for younger students, using Moodle as your classroom assistant