Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

This book follows a cookbook style which will help you achieve outstanding results using ready-to-use recipes for reading comprehension writing and composition holding hands with Moodle 1.9 in the Web 2.0 Era. Each recipe is unique; some deal with similar teaching techniques but they show how to develop the same technique using different software situations or topics. Images videos poems songs artists classic stories cartoons superheroes painting the environment and comics are inserted into the Moodle course in order to be used as either prewriting or writing activities. If you are an English teacher who wants to discover practical funny and engaging activities to insert in your course this is a perfectly designed book for you. It will help you to use different techniques in the teaching of reading comprehension writing and composition using a great variety of resources from the free and open source software available in the Web and interesting websites as well as social networks. You need basic experience with Moodle 1.9 or 1.9.5 as well as installation and configuration procedures.