Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching -- Table of Contents -- Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. What Does Moodle Offer Language Teachers? -- What is Moodle? -- Assumptions -- Who is this book for? -- Why another book on Moodle? -- Assessment -- Making Moodle look good -- Communicative Language Teaching -- Age and level of students -- What languages can you teach using Moodle? -- Suggested approach to using the book -- 2. Getting Started with Moodle -- Part 1: Overview of Moodle -- Installing Moodle -- Topography of a Moodle site -- Topography of a Moodle site: Front page -- Topography of a Moodle site: Course page -- Moodle overview: Core blocks -- Moodle overview: Add-on blocks -- Personal glossary -- Exabis E-portfolio -- Moodle overview: Core modules -- Moodle overview: Add-on modules -- Part 2: Site administration how-tos -- How to create and manage users -- Authentification -- Accounts -- User profile fields -- Defining roles -- System roles -- How to create and manage courses -- Course request -- Backups -- How to set up activities -- Quiz settings -- How to upload files to Moodle -- How to upload images to Moodle -- How to set up a grading system -- General settings -- Grade category settings -- Grade display type -- Scales -- Outcomes -- Letters (grade letters) -- How to edit labels and instructions -- Language settings -- Language editing -- Language packs -- How to manage modules -- How to manage blocks -- How to manage sticky blocks -- How to set up remote RSS feeds -- How to manage filters -- How to control the HTML editor -- How to manage tags -- How to control My Moodle -- How to enable users to add RSS feeds.

How to set up a course calendar -- How to create a Flash audio player -- How to import glossary entries -- How to download videos from YouTube -- How to display other websites within your Moodle site -- How to avoid spam -- Part 3: Some useful external programs and resources -- Assessment -- Websites relating to assessment -- Audio -- Avatars -- Directories of websites -- RSS feeds -- Websites -- Firewalls -- Hot Potatoes -- HTML -- Learning some basic HTML to edit your pages -- KompoZer -- Images -- Paint program -- International accent marks and diacritics -- Reminder service -- Scheduling service -- Screen capture -- Screencasts -- Twitter -- Video -- Movie Maker -- iMovie -- Jake Ludington's Media Blab -- Mashable -- Video hosting -- Subtitles -- Widgets -- Word processors -- XML file creator -- Part 4: General design principles for creating a good Moodle course -- Moodle course design: Do's and don'ts -- 3. Vocabulary Activities -- Activity 1: Setting up a class glossary -- Here's how to do it -- Adding categories -- Activity 2: Using a Glossary to create a "word of the day" feature -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 3: Using comments in the Glossary module for students to comment on keywords -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 4: Using the rating facility to provide feedback on students' definitions -- Here's how to do it -- Rating scale -- Glossary -- Rating students' entries -- Activity 5: Using tags to highlight vocabulary and link to example stories -- Preparation -- Administration -- Activity -- Result -- Activity 6: Using polls to vote on the meaning of words -- Variation 1: Defining a word -- Here's how to do it -- Other variations -- Activity 7: Using a chat session transcript to analyze vocabulary errors -- Here's how to do it -- Review 1: Review errors in a word processor -- Here's how to do it -- Review 2: Review errors in a wiki.

Here's how to do it -- Review 3: Review errors by comparing to a teacher recording -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 8: Using a Personal Glossary to set up simple individual vocabulary lists -- Here's how to do it -- Instructions for students -- Activity 9: Creating a crossword in Hot Potatoes -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 10: Using a Database to set up categorized vocabulary lists -- Here's how to do it -- Formatting the data view -- Activity 11: Creating a gap-fill using the Quiz module -- Variation 1: Using a text as a stimulus for a gap-fill -- Here's how to do it -- Adding embedded answers (cloze) -- Variation 2: Completing the lyrics of a song from an audio file using Audacity -- Here's how to do it -- Variation 3: Completing texts based on charts and other images -- Example 1: Family tree diagram -- Here's how to do it -- Example 2: Picture of an activity -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 12: Creating a text/text matching activity using the Quiz module -- Variation 1: Matching words -- Here's how to do it -- Adding a matching question -- Variation 2: Creating a picture/text matching activity using the Quiz module -- Here's how to do it -- Variation 3: Creating an audio/text matching activity using the Quiz module -- Here's how to do it -- 4. Speaking Activities -- Activity 1: Helping students improve pronunciation using the Forum module -- Here's how to do it -- Preparation -- Activity -- Activity 2: Creating a word stress matching activity using the Quiz module -- Example 1: Word stress -- Example 2: Sounds with audio -- Example 3: Intonation patterns -- Variation 1: Getting students to identify word stress -- Here's how to do it -- Adding a matching question -- Variation 2: Getting students to identify intonation -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 3: Adding a sound extension to vocabulary lists -- Here's how to do it.

Activity 4: Using OUwiki to help students learn by repeating -- What it will look like -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 5: Dialog Minus One - helping students build dialogs using a podcast -- Which recording program? -- Which Moodle module? -- Here's how to do it -- Recording -- Making the podcast -- Activity 6: Preparing for class speaking practice using a Wiki -- Variation 1: Building a dialog -- Here's how to do it -- Variation 2: Preparing for a debate -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 7: Preparing a class discussion using Chat -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 8: Producing presentations using an OUblog -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 9: Presenting a monolog using the Quiz module -- Here's how to do it -- Adding an Essay -- 5. Grammar Activities -- Activity 1: Creating a Podcast lecture to present grammar in a lively way -- Here's how to do it -- Making the recording -- Setting up the Podcast -- Activity 2: Using the Lesson module to get students to notice grammar points -- Here's how to do it -- Preparation -- Setting up the Lesson -- Activity 3: Using polls to get students to vote on the correctness of grammar items -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 4: Practicing grammar through dictation -- Variation 1: Creating a dictation using Lesson -- Here's how to do it -- Variation 2: Creating a collaborative dictation using a Wiki -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 5: Using the Quiz module to practice grammar -- Variation 1: Multiple-choice grammar quiz -- Here's how to do it -- Adding a multiple-choice question -- Variation 2a: Gap-fill focusing on grammar using Quiz -- Here's how to do it -- Variation 2b: Gap-fill focusing on grammar using Hot Potatoes -- Here's how to do it -- Variation 3: True or false? Decide if a sentence is grammatically correct or not -- Here's how to do it -- Adding a True/False question.

Activity 6: Using a chat session transcript to analyze grammar errors -- Activity 7: Peer grammar review using the Forum module -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 8: Providing feedback on grammar using the Assignment module -- Variation 1: Providing grammar feedback on a written text -- Here's how to do it -- Variation 2: Providing grammar feedback on a spoken text -- 6. Reading Activities -- Activity 1: Using Forum for a book discussion -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 2: Using Web pages to read and listen -- Here's how to do it -- Preparing a recording -- Creating a web page -- Activity 3: Using Choice for voting on texts -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 4: Using Blog to explore texts -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 5: Using Questionnaire to explore texts -- Here's how to do it -- Preparation -- Activity -- Activity 6: Using Hot Potatoes to investigate texts -- Variation 1: Matching pictures to a text -- Here's how to do it -- Preparation -- Inserting an image -- Variation 2: Identifying meaning of individual words using multiple-choice questions -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 7: Using Lesson for text prediction -- Here's how to do it -- 7. Writing Activities -- Activity 1: Raising awareness of text structure using Quiz -- Here's how to do it -- Part 1: Analyzing the order of text elements -- Part 2: Adding an essay question -- Part 3: Student attempts at the quiz -- Activity 2: Practicing register using Lesson -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 3: Using Mindmap to brainstorm writing assignments -- Here's how to do it -- Activity 4: Producing effective personal profiles -- Here's how to do it -- Writing profiles -- Activity 5: Using Journal for reflective or private writing -- Here's how to do it -- Helping students use Journal -- Activity 6: Using a Blog or Web page for creative writing -- Variation 1: Blog stories.

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