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Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Time for action — customizing our course page
Making changes on the course page
Time for action — moving, adding, and deleting blocks
Making our own side blocks in Moodle
Time for action — configuring an HTML block
Customizing the middle section
Brightening up the course page with images
Time for action — uploading images to our Moodle page
Adding links to other websites in Moodle
Time for action — making a click here link to a website
Adding Worksheets and Resources
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
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
Time for action — improving the look of our course page
Getting our class to reflect and discuss
Time for action — setting up a discussion forum on Moodle
Carrying on the conversation in real time—outside of school
Time for action — setting up a chat room in Moodle
Time for action — getting students to create their own Glossary
Showcasing the plans in a database
Time for action — setting up a database
Giving our class a chance to vote
Time for action — giving students a chance to choose a winner
Time for action — setting up an online creative writing exercise
Time for action — marking students' work on Moodle
Time for action — getting our class to work together on an online story
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Time for action — how to display a Google Map on our course page
Introducing the project with a cartoon character
Time for action — creating a moving and a talking teacher
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
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
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