Book Description
80 simple but incredibly effective recipes for teaching reading comprehension, writing, and composing using Moodle 1.9
Packed with recipes to help you use Moodle effectively to teach English
Create a different atmosphere to help students improve their writing skills using Moodle
Implement different techniques in the teaching of reading comprehension, writing, and composition using a variety of resources from the free and open source software available
Enhance the writing activities created for students by embedding Twitter & Facebook into Moodle
In Detail
Connecting the ideas of students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. Performing these types of tasks through Moodle will help you overcome complex situations while you teach. If you are looking for a guide that will show you how to improve your skills in using Moodle, as well as enhance your way of teaching in virtual classrooms, your search ends right here.
This book begins with simple activities in order to enhance students' writing, such as connecting activities developed in different ways either using Moodle or free and open source software available in the Web 2.0. Then, it moves into matching images and different pieces of writing; it shows how to import different pictures to the Moodle course in different ways. It caters for a great variety of images that will brighten the creativity of students.
Then reading comprehension is explored from the characters' point of view; students should explore the reading in such a way to become part of it and write as if they were part of the story.
Twitter and Facebook social networks are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social on fashion interaction hand in hand with the virtual classroom. There are step-by-step activities involving these websites and inserting Ishikawa's management technique in order to enhance group writing.
Once you have reached this point of the book there are other writing techniques explored such as mathematical association to writing, cube technique, discussion clock, mind mapping, and tree diagrams among others. A step-by-step guide is provided for creating these techniques, uploading them into the Moodle course, and creating the writing activity.
The book covers writing sentences, poems, songs, descriptions, compositions, essays, articles, cartoons, ads, and creating and describing superheroes.
Achieve outstanding results with ready-to-use recipes for writing and composing holding hands with Moodle 1.9 in the Web 2.0 Era
Table of Contents
- Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook
- Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewer
- Preface
- 1. Connecting Ideas
- Introduction
- Matching sentences
- Unjumbling and connecting sentences
- Using Twitter and Facebook for a survey
- Brainstorming ideas using Forums
- Answering a quiz designed in a Lesson
- Empty book, great story: upload pictures from Microsoft Word
- Connecting stairs: Uploading drawings from Microsoft Word
- Linking to websites and writing about an endangered animal
- 2. Matching Pictures and Text
- 3. Looking at Things from Different Perspectives
- 4. Defining Types of Sentences
- Introduction
- Embedding videos, games, and matching the correct topic sentence
- Writing detailed sentences according to the topic sentence
- Multiple choice: choose the correct concluding sentence
- Mixing paragraphs
- Selecting the correct sentences
- Adding detailed sentences
- Writing topics and concluding sentences
- Hamburger paragraph: writing a composition using three types of sentences
- 5. Creating Stories using Twitter and Facebook
- 6. Improving Your Students' Writing
- 7. Comparing using Venn Diagrams
- Introduction
- Summer holidays versus winter holidays— drawing Venn diagrams using OpenOffice Drawing
- Living in the country versus living in an overcrowded city—drawing Venn diagrams with clip art from Microsoft Word
- Being famous versus being unknown— drawing Venn diagrams with SmartDraw software
- Having a healthy lifestyle versus bad habits—completing a Venn diagram using the classtools.net website
- Famous coincidences—drawing Venn diagrams of Abraham Lincoln and John Fitzgerald Kennedy using Paint
- Comparing different types of pollution— drawing Venn diagrams using Microsoft Visio 2007
- Types of students—drawing Venn diagrams using Edraw Max
- Puzzles—placing adjectives and sentences in a Venn diagram according to the description of personal possessions
- 8. Composing New Sceneries
- Introduction
- Updating a fairy tale—using a database to guide writing activity
- Changing a poem into a cartoon—using resources from Web 2.0
- Listening to a poem and writing another end to it
- Imagining that your house is a palace
- Superheroes have other powers—creating your own hero using tools from Web 2.0
- Flying shoes—creating an advertisement using animoto.com
- Becoming your idol—using Quandary 2 in Moodle
- Creating a writing activity
- 9. Working with Mind Maps and Tree Diagrams
- Introduction
- Pictures in mind maps—using Buzan's iMindMap V4
- Adding data to pictures—creating a mind map using MindMeister
- Providing a situation to a story—drawing a mind map using Draw Anywhere
- Creating mind maps using resources from Web 2.0
- Creating a tree diagram using Microsoft Word
- Pictures in a tree diagram—creating a tree diagram using creately.com
- Completing a tree diagram comparing two people using my.lovelycharts.com
- Comparing the Flintstones and the Simpsons—using cacoo.com to create a tree diagram
- 10. Preparing a Discussion Clock
- Introduction
- How to prepare a discussion clock—words to cover different viewpoints
- Writing from a viewpoint—using tiny URLs in the discussion clock
- Picturing the clock diagram—adding images
- Music in the clock diagram—embedding MP3 files to our Moodle course
- Just words—using a target diagram to create a discussion clock and creating a story out of it
- Questions in the clock diagram—writing a newspaper article
- Correcting through a clock diagram
- Designing a discussion clock in order to create an aircraft using resources from Web 2.0