Moodle for very young students

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on June 7, 2009 at 6:39am

I've done a dozen online book discussions using Moodle (and Blackboard) with 4th-6th graders. Is that young enough? I can't see why primary students couldn't use it. Let me know if you need more info, I have mixed feelings about the book discussion format, but found Moodle easy to set up and the students found it easy to use.

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Permalink Reply by Marcela Summerville on June 7, 2009 at 8:45am

Thanks Nancy! My students are 1st-3rd grade. I haven't used Moodle, this will be my first time (;-

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Permalink Reply by Nanci Greene on June 8, 2009 at 6:18am

Have you seen Mary Cooch's book "Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds"? It just came out a few months ago. It is well written, easy to understand, and has good ideas for using Moodle with younger students.

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Permalink Reply by IndyEduktr on June 11, 2009 at 11:20am

We have a teacher in our school district who teaches a 2-3 class and is so successful using Moodle. If you have a contact address, I can send her name your contact information. She teaches in the Brownsburg Community School Corporation in a suburb of Indianapolis.

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Permalink Reply by Marcela Summerville on June 11, 2009 at 1:43pm

Thank you very much. I give you my website and my emails are just there...www.spanishworkshopforchildren.com

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on June 11, 2009 at 2:12pm

Marcela, If you get any good ideas from The Indianapolis teacher, share here.

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Permalink Reply by Marcela Summerville on June 11, 2009 at 3:33pm

Sure, I will. I am trying to learn as much as I can on tech to see "what" I can use with young students, especially with world languages. My students are very young (PreK to 3rd), so it is difficult -at least for me- to use tech in the classroom other than games.

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