Connecting Stairs: Uploading Drawings From Microsoft Word

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Moodle 1.9: The English Teacher's Cookbook

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Connecting the ideas of students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. Performing these types of tasks through Moodle will help you overcome complex situations while you teach. If you are looking for a guide that will show you how to improve your skills in using Moodle, as well as enhance your way of teaching in virtual classrooms, your search ends right here.This cookbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building a complete reading comprehension, writing, and composition course in Moodle 1.9 starting with simple activities and ending with complex ones. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve writing using Moodle as a virtual learning platform.This book begins with simple activities in order to enhance students' writing, such as connecting activities developed in different ways either using Moodle or free and open source software available in the Web 2.0. Then, it moves into matching images and different pieces of writing; it shows how to import different pictures to the Moodle course in different ways. It caters for a great variety of images that will brighten the creativity of students.Then reading comprehension is explored from the characters' point of view; students should explore the reading in such a way to become part of it and write as if they were part of the story.Twitter and Facebook social networks are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social on fashion interaction hand in hand with the virtual classroom. There are step-by-step activities involving these websites and inserting Ishikawa's management technique in order to enhance group writing.Once you have reached this point of the book there are other writing techniques explored such as mathematical association to writing, cube technique, discussion clock, mind mapping, and tree diagrams among others. A step-by-step guide is provided for creating these techniques, uploading them into the Moodle course, and creating the writing activity.The book covers writing sentences, poems, songs, descriptions, compositions, essays, articles, cartoons, ads, and creating and describing superheroes. Table of Contents (16 chapters) Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook Moodle 1.9 English Teacher's Cookbook Credits Credits About the Author About the Author Acknowledgement Acknowledgement About the Reviewer About the Reviewer Preface Preface Free Chapter 1 Connecting Ideas 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 Matching Pictures and Text Introduction Picturing comprehension Matching text to speech bubbles of comic strips Picture paragraph matching Sceneries and possible stories through flowcharts Working with paintings—Salvador Dali's art Choosing a book by its cover Advising posters Cooking recipes 3 Looking at Things from Different Perspectives Looking at Things from Different Perspectives Introduction Becoming 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 4 Defining Types of Sentences 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 Creating Stories using Twitter and Facebook Introduction Debating a topic Cause-and-effect diagram, Fishbone, or Ishikawa diagram technique 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 6 Improving Your Students' Writing Improving Your Students' Writing Introduction Cubing technique: Describe Cubing technique: Compare Cubing technique: Associate Cubing technique: Analyse Cubing technique: Apply Cubing technique: Argue Rolling a cube How to correct this essay 7 Comparing using Venn Diagrams 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 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 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 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

Connecting stairs: Uploading drawings from Microsoft Word

In this recipe, I have adapted what is known as "staircase writing". It is what occurs to you as you descend stairs at the end of the evening. The French call it "L'espirit d'escalier". We are not going to tell the students to go down the stairs with their notebook to write a beautiful story. Instead, my proposal is to draw stairs with keywords and events. We are going to draw a set of stairs in Microsoft Word, and then upload it to Moodle. Let's Moodle it!

Getting ready

We are going to open a new file in Microsoft Word. While doing so, we are going to draw a staircase, and then add some key, linking words. The main purpose is to supply our students with enough tools to gather the data and write a beautiful piece of writing.

How to do it...

First of all, you are going to open a new file and draw the staircase. Then add the key, linking words that you want your students to use. To draw the staircase, you can decide either to draw it or to upload a clipart in Word. In this case, I decided to draw it and here are the steps to follow:

1. 1. Choose Insert Shapes and click on the Elbow Connector.

2. 2. Draw the staircase using the elbow connector. After drawing it, you can add 3D effects so that it looks like a staircase. Then add a title and the description of the activity, as shown in the following screenshot:

1. 3. This is what you have to show your students so that they can write, bearing in mind the order of the events.

How it works...

The activity is already done, but in Microsoft Word. What we need to do is upload this activity in Moodle and let our students write. These are the steps that you need to follow in order to design this activity. We are going to use two types of activities; static and dynamic. The static activity is to upload the Microsoft Word file into Moodle and the dynamic activity is to create a Journal and a link towards the Microsoft Word file so that students are to read the file and write the activity in Moodle through the Journal. It is not as difficult as it sounds. Let's Moodle it!

1. 1. Click on Add a resource and select Link to a file or a website.

2. 2. In the Name block, write Connecting stairs.

3. 3. In the summary, you can write the description of the activity.

4. 4. Click on Choose or upload a file.

5. 5. Then click on Upload a file.

6. 6. Click on Browse and look for your file.

7. 7. Select your file, click on it, and then click on Open.

8. 8. Click on Upload a file again.

9. 9. Your file has just uploaded. Now click on Choose as shown in the following screenshot:

1. 10. Click on Save and return to course.

2. 11. You have done part of this task. What you now need to do is create the dynamic activity for the students so that they can use this file.

There's more...

We can also create a link to the file designed in Microsoft Word. We can do this using the insert a link icon.

Creating a link with a Microsoft file

We have to link the file in Microsoft Word that we have just uploaded into Moodle with an activity. By default, this activity doesn't allow us to upload a file. But we are going to do it using a link. Follow these steps:

1. 1. Click on Add an activity, and select Journal.

2. 2. Complete the Journal name block with the title of the activity.

3. 3. Write the description of the activity in the Journal question block. Highlight the words Connecting stairs technique in the Journal question block and click on the chain icon.

4. 4. Click on Browse and click on the file you want to upload.

5. 5. Write a title in the Title block.

6. 6. In the Target block, choose New window, as shown in the next screenshot:

1. 7. Click on OK.

2. 8. Click on Save and return to course.

3. 9. The activity is ready to work with.

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