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Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques

Creative ways to build powerful and effective online courses

Motivate students from all backgrounds, generations, and learning styles
When and how to apply the different learning solutions with workarounds, providing alternative solutions
Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions with screenshots and examples for Moodle’s powerful features
Especially suitable for university and professional teachers

In Detail

Moodle is the world’s most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need.

This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you’ll learn to get the best from Moodle.

This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you’ll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle’s unique features.

What you will learn from this book

Build a learning outcome-focused approach that enables your students to perform well

Different techniques for creating a dynamic learning environment
Put all the ideas you’ve wanted to implement, but never could, into action to create unique courses with reusable elements
Motivate your students to collaborate and demonstrate what they are learning and to create projects together
Develop materials you can re-use in your future courses
Incorporate Web 2.0 features to encourage student sharing of resources
Create online workshops and galleries for your students to make presentations about what they have learned
Build e-portfolios for students to collect their work and demonstrate mastery of the units
Engage your students in team work that helps them connect course content with their experiences and prior learning
Feel confident in finding ways to accommodate your students’ learning styles and preferences to guide them to a successful outcome for the course
Develop high-quality courses that will last and stay useful and relevant to create a personal inventory you can use and re-use

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform

  • A recipe book for creating language activities using Moodle 1.9
  • Get the most out of Moodle 1.9′s features to create enjoyable, useful language learning activities
  • Create an online language learning center that includes reading, writing, speaking, listening, vocabulary, and grammar activities
  • Enhance your activities to make them visually attractive, and make the most of audio and video activities

In Detail

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place – it’s in the newspapers, on other teachers’ tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here.

This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.

This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus – speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment – and shows you how use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practice them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it’s a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you’re ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.

What you will learn from this book?

  • Look at a variety of activities that help students to learn words, review and recycle vocabulary, and learn different ways of keeping vocabulary records.
  • Help students get better at their speaking ability using the add-on nanogong recorder, which illustrates activities that look at pronunciation, intonation, fluency, stress, and discussions.
  • Create a wide range of activities for presenting grammar, practicing its use, and keeping grammar records.
  • Embed flash audio players and YouTube video on your Moodle to make language learning more fun.
  • Encourage students to read and interact with texts using Moodle and learn an activity on extended reading.
  • Set up collaborative writing tasks and tasks with different types of feedback to help students to structure sentences to create longer texts, build short stories using key vocabulary, and more.
  • Make your materials look more engaging and attractive by enhancing their visual design.
  • Consider the importance of roles, groups, and outcomes as well as the add-ons to make the most of Moodle for language teaching.
  • Create activities that help students learn and practice to write effectively online.
  • Set up useful listening activities using student-made recordings, forum discussions and authentic texts, which motivate students to listen.
  • Help students to interact with listening texts through tasks such as matching, gap-fill, text prediction, and ordering events.
  • Benefit from Moodle’s gradebook statistics to improve your own language tests.
  • Make your students language learning experience more effective by checking the quality of the text, images, and audio and learn the importance of clear navigation paths.

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http://www.amazon.com/Moodle-1-9-Second-Language-Teaching/dp/1847196241/

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