In this recipe, we are going to imagine that something unusual belongs to our students, unless the children of any king or queen are our students! Apart from that, students can think backwards in time. They may imagine how life would have been centuries ago, or they may think about how their lives would be in the Web 2.0 era when living in a castle.
We are going to design a Wiki activity to introduce some social interaction in this chapter. First of all, we are going to surf the net to select a website that gives extra data to our students about castles. Let's Moodle it!
We are going to enter the Weekly outline section where we want to add the activity. Then, these are the steps that you have to follow:
- Click on Add an activity and select Forum.
- Complete the Forum name block.
- Click on the drop-down box in Forum type and select Q and A forum so that students interact among themselves, as shown in the next screenshot.
- Complete the Forum introduction.
- Create a link to a website where you can find pictures of a castle, as shown in the following screenshot:
- In Target, select New window. Then click on OK.
- Click on Save and return to course.
- The next screenshot shows how the Forum looks when your students interact among themselves:
The prewriting part is ready and students will perform two types of activities before writing—they will read an article about castles and they will discuss it. Therefore, this Forum activity is like a brainstorming activity and hence it is high time for them to write! We are going to add an Assignment so that they can write about living in a castle. Follow these steps:
