In this task, we are going to deal with the description of a topic. We are going to match this angle of the cube with the order of adjectives that has to be followed when describing something. We can either create a link to a website, which gives information about this topic, or we can upload an explanation from Microsoft PowerPoint.
Let's create a passive activity in Microsoft PowerPoint. We are going to create a receptive activity in which students are going to read about the normal order of adjectives:
- Opinion.
- Size.
- Quality.
- Age.
- Shape.
- Color.
- Origin.
- Material.
- Purpose.
Students should bear in mind that we normally don't use more than three adjectives before a noun. So let's create a document in Microsoft PowerPoint. You can also use OpenOffice to create a document so that we can upload it into our Moodle course afterwards.
After creating the document in Microsoft PowerPoint, we are going to upload it into Moodle. Enter the course and select the Weekly outline section where you want to add the resource. Then follow these steps:
- Click on the drop-down box in Add a resource and select Link to a file or website.
- Complete the Name block.
- Complete the Summary block.
- Click on Choose or upload a file.
- Click on Upload a file.
- Click on Browse and select the file that you want to upload.
- Click on Upload this file.
- Check the file that you want to upload and click on Choose, as shown in the next screenshot:
- In Target, select New window.
- Afterwards, you have to click on Save and return to course.
After uploading the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in Moodle, we are going to design the activity concerning the cubing technique. In this recipe, we are going to deal with Dracula. As the angle of this cube will cover description, students are to describe him. We are going to upload two pictures, one picture will be the cube that says Describe, and the other will be a picture of Dracula so that students can describe him properly.
We are going to create a document in Microsoft Word, or any other word processor. We are going to upload an image of Dracula and a 3D cube on which we are going to write the word Describe, which is the perspective that students are going to work with. Afterwards, we are going to copy and paste both images in Paint or any other similar software. We are going to save the images as .png and .jpeg files so that we can upload those images together in Moodle.
We are going to carry out the activity in a Forum so that students can share the different descriptions of Dracula. Follow these steps:
- Click on Add an activity and select Forum.
- Complete Forum name.
- Complete Forum introduction.
- Click on the insert image icon so that we can insert the images.
- Click on Browse and select the file that you have created.
- Then click on Open.
- Click on Upload.
- Click on OK.
- The image is uploaded, as shown in the next screenshot:
- Click on Save and return to course.
When we created both activities, either the passive or the active one, we wrote the same words. Therefore, we can link them together automatically, though this option is disabled by default. If it doesn't work, you should contact your Moodle admin to have it enabled.
When we create a link to a file, we name the link as "order of adjectives". When we described the Forum in the Forum introduction, we wrote the words "order of adjectives" in the same way as we wrote the name of the file. Therefore, when students click on the Forum activity to perform it, the words order of adjectives will be highlighted in gray, as shown in the next screenshot:
If you click on them, there is an automatic link that links to the file of the said name. The following will appear, as shown in the next screenshot:
