Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds -- Table of Contents -- Moodle 2 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- First impressions -- Time for action - customizing our course page -- What just happened? -- Making changes on the course page -- Getting the best out of the side blocks -- Time for action - moving, adding, and deleting blocks -- What just happened? -- Useful and less useful blocks -- Have a go hero - get the right choice of blocks for your course! -- Making our own side blocks in Moodle -- Time for action - configuring an HTML block -- What just happened? -- Customizing the middle section -- Using the text editor -- Have a go hero - give titles to each section of your course -- What just happened? -- Brightening up the course page with images -- Time for action - uploading images to our Moodle page -- What just happened? -- What if you don't have any good images on your computer? -- Have a go hero - add an image to your HTML block -- Adding links to other websites in Moodle -- Time for action - making a click here link to a website -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 2. Adding Worksheets and Resources -- Putting a worksheet on Moodle -- Time for action - uploading a factsheet on to Moodle -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - putting a slideshow onto 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 -- What just happened? -- Making a 'click here' type link to the River Thames website -- Have a go hero - linking to a 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 -- What just happened? -- Online worksheets-some ideas to consider -- Making our page look prettier -- Time for action - improving the look of our course page -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - move the label! -- Summary -- 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 -- What just happened? -- 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 Moodle -- What just happened? -- Why use chat? (and why not?) -- Making our own class Glossary -- Time for action - getting students to create their own Glossary -- What just happened? -- Showcasing the plans in a database -- Time for action - setting up a database -- What just happened? -- How far have we come? -- Giving our class a chance to vote -- Time for action - giving students a chance to choose a winner -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - getting the class to give us feedback -- Why use Choice? -- Announcing the winner -- Writing creatively in Moodle -- Time for action - setting up an online creative writing exercise -- What just happened? -- Time for action - marking students' work on Moodle -- What just happened? -- Other ways to set and mark work in Moodle -- Have a go hero - mark their campsite design -- Collaborative story-telling -- Time for action - getting our class to work together on an online story.

What just happened? -- Summary -- 4. Self-marking Quizzes -- Forget the paper -- Hot potatoes-cool learning -- Time for action - getting a program to create our self-marking activities -- What just happened? -- Time for action - matching rivers to continents with the JMatch Hot Potato -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - make the rivers and continents into a drag-and-drop activity -- Time for action - getting our matching activity into Moodle -- What just happened? -- Consolidating knowledge with Hot Potatoes activities -- Time for action - creating a self-marking gap-fill exercise -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - make differentiated exercises for students with mixed abilities -- Time for action - making a self-marking crossword exercise -- What just happened? -- Time for action - making a self-marking mixed up words exercise -- What just happened? -- Time for action - making a self-marking multiple-choice quiz -- What just happened? -- How can we save the scores in Moodle -- Words of warning -- 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 -- What just happened? -- The quiz question screen -- Time for action - making a multiple-choice question -- Have a go hero - Jazz up the question with an image! -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - making a true/false question -- Time for action - adding a video to a Matching question -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - Add a sound file to a quiz question -- Previewing and using our Moodle assessment test -- Other types of questions -- Summary -- 5. Games -- Making an Alien Abduction (hangman) game -- Time for action - finding and making the Alien Abduction game -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding a link to our game in Moodle.

Time for action - showing just the game without the web page -- What just happened? -- Garbage in the bins-making a sorting exercise -- Time for action - finding and making the bin game -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero(1) - adding a link to a file (our game) in Moodle -- Have a go hero(2) - embedding the game into a Moodle page -- Bish Bash Bosh-a differentiation game with a hammer! -- Time for action - finding and creating the Bish Bash Bosh game -- What just happened? -- Time for action - uploading and displaying our game on Moodle -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - make a wheel of fortune game -- Making a Monster memory game from Languages Online -- Time for action - downloading Memory Game Maker -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating our memory game -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero(1) - upload the game to Moodle -- Have a go hero(2) - create a different type of game -- I know what you're thinking! -- Fling the Teacher-making a Moodle-marked homework -- Time for action - finding and setting up Fling the Teacher -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating a Fling the Teacher game -- What just happened? -- Time for action - getting our game to work in Moodle's gradebook -- Have a go hero - playing the game -- Summary -- 6. Multimedia -- Making a sound recording to put into Moodle -- Time for action - getting Audacity -- What just happened? -- Time for action - setting up to record -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - recording audio -- Improving the recording and involving our class -- Time for action - getting rid of the coughs and giggles -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding background music -- What just happened? -- Time for action - saving our recording -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - displaying our MP3 file on Moodle.

Time for action - displaying the audio file in a player on the page -- What just happened? -- Making a film to put into Moodle -- What can we use to make our movie? -- Getting Windows Movie Maker -- Time for action - creating our movie -- Have a go hero - adding photos to the movie and testing it out -- What just happened? -- Improving our movie with effects and sound -- Time for action - adding special effects to our movie -- Have a go hero - make your movie zoom in and change color! -- Time for action - adding sound to our movie -- What just happened? -- 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 -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding our closing credits -- Time for action - saving and uploading the movie into Moodle -- Have a go hero - displaying our movie in Moodle -- Summary -- 7. Wonderful Web 2.0 -- Web 2.0 words of warning -- Getting the pupils to blog! -- Time for action - adding the blog menu block so we can blog inside our course -- What just happened? -- Time for action - introducing our project with a blog entry -- What just happened? -- Words of warning -- Have a go hero - commenting on our pupils' blogs -- Putting a map onto Moodle -- Time for action - how to display a Google Map on our course page -- What just happened? -- Words of warning -- Introducing the project with a cartoon character -- Time for action - creating a moving and a talking teacher -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - put your Voki onto Moodle! -- Words of warning -- Telling our story through an online picture book -- Time for action - signing up and making our picture book -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - add our online picture book to Moodle -- Have a go hero - setting up our Moodle Storybird forum.

Summarizing our project in a word cloud.