Moodle Book Club: Review of "Moodle 1.9"

Moodle Book Review
By: Jose, Mary and Sandra

Simple but effective recipes for teaching reading and writing using Moodle 1.9 and Web 2.0
Each of the activities is clearly presented following 3 steps:
Getting Ready
How to do it
How it works

Chapter 1 - Connecting Ideas
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
Carry out activities through Hot Potatoes.
Hot Potatoes website :
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/#downloads
Showing Hot Potatoes Quiz in Moodle.

Matching activity in Hot Potatoes
Creating an empty book (pictures only) for students to write a story
Unjumbling and connecting sentences

Using Twitter and Facebook for a survey
Writing somebody's biography using a link to a website

Chapter 2 - Matching pictures and text - chapter covers the following activities
Picturing comprehension
Matching text to speech bubbles of strip comics
Picture paragraph matching
Sceneries and possible stories through flowcharts
Working with painting—Salvador Dali's art
Choosing a book by its cover
Advising posters
Cooking recipes
Picture paragraph matching

Matching text to speech bubbles of comic strips
Add an activity , select a Quiz. Create the comic strip in Word ........ design it in Moodle. The pictures are not in the correct order, so arrange them.

Chapter 3 - Looking at things from different perspectives
How to become a well-known character
Understanding secondary characters
Adding technology to a story
Statues can think
Changing an adventure
Old age versus childhood
Beauty versus ugliness
Curious characters

Chapter 4 - Defining types of sentences
Embedding videos, games, and matching the correct topic sentence
Writing detailed sentences according to the topic sentence
Multiple choice questions—selecting the correct concluding sentence
Mixing paragraphs
Selecting correct sentences
Adding detailed sentences
Writing the topic and the concluding sentences
Hamburger paragraph—writing a composition using three types of sentences
Embedding videos

Chapter 5 - Creating Stories using Twitter and Facebook
Debating about a topic
Cause and effect diagram, Fishbone fact or Ishikawa diagram: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram)
Positive and negative points list
Play the reporter
Writing a story guessing facts
Writing a very short play using text messages
Chain composition
How to summarize information
Inserting a Twitter button in Moodle

Chapter 6 - Improving Your Students' Writing
Describe—description of the topic and identification of its parts
Compare—similarities and differences of one topic to other topics
Associate—relationship between the current topic and another one. Compare it to another topic it makes you think of
Analyze—relationship between the components of the topic and its parts
Apply—usage of the topic
Argue—arguments for and against the topic
Using Sweet Home 3D

Chapter 7 - Comparing using Venn Diagrams
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 website: (http://classtools.net/)
Famous coincidences—drawing Venn diagrams of Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy using Paint
Comparing different types of pollution—drawing Venn diagrams using MOffice 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 possession

Chapter 8 - Composing New Sceneries
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 Ad using the website (http://animoto.com/)
Becoming your idol—using Quandary 2 in Moodle
Embedding a video from YouTube and changing the lyrics of the song
Creating an Ad using Animoto

Chapter 9 - Working with Mind Maps and Tree Diagrams
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 the website, 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 the website, creately.com
Completing a tree diagram comparing two persons using the website, my.lovelycharts.com
Comparing the Flintstones and the Simpsons—using cacoo.com to create a tree diagram

Chapter 10 - Preparing a Discussion Clock
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

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Moodle Book Club: Review of "Moodle 1.9"

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