Connecting the ideas of our students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. This is primarily because they find it very hard to do. Therefore, these types of Exercises using Moodle 1.9.5 will help you to overcome such situations. Your students will be attracted to the proposed assignments because they are quite appealing.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Matching sentences
- Unjumbling and connecting sentences
- Using Twitter and Facebook for surveys
- Brainstorming ideas using Forums
- Answering a quiz designed in a lesson
- Uploading pictures from Microsoft Word
- Connecting events—uploading drawings from Microsoft Word
- Linking to a website and writing a description
In this chapter, you will be able to design several types of Exercises concerning reading comprehension, writing, and composing through Moodle 1.9.5. You will learn to use Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, and Forums so that students can interact among themselves while completing the Moodle courses. Apart from that, you will be given some hints on how to develop the same activity in another way using resources from the Web 2.0, and uploading clipart and drawings from Microsoft Word.
In this virtual classroom, students will enrich the use of connectors. For starters, they will work with connectors on simple activities—for example, they will connect sentences. Then they will use those connectors in different Exercises. These connectors were used previously in a simpler way. I designed the activities in such a way that the level of difficulty increases throughout the book along with the writing of the students. That is because I believe in the premise that students have to read in order to write. We have to bear in mind that on the one hand, reading is a passive and receptive skill, while on the other hand, writing is an active or productive one.
As a teacher, I always add a personal touch to any methodology, Exercise, or suggestion, and the recipes in this book are the results. I hope that you enjoy them. You can follow my instructions or add a personal touch to any recipe. Let's Moodle it!