- 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
Open source software, social networks, and commercial software.
Moodle, English grammar, Reading comprehension, writing, composing, connectors, Hot potatoes, Quandary 2, Web 2.0, embedding Twitter in Moodle, embedding Facebook in Moodle, Uploading images to Moodle, writing activities in Moodle, Venn diagrams in Moodle, Mind mapping in Moodle, embedding YouTube videos in Moodle, embedding TeacherTube in Moodle, creating cartoons, heroes, and tree diagrams in Moodle, and Ishikawa in Moodle. Basic experience with Moodle 1.9 or 1.9.5, as well as installation and configuration procedures is expected.
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