Preface

This book begins with simple activities which enhance students' writing such as connecting activities developed in different ways either using Moodle or any other free and open source software available in the Web 2.0.

Next, 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 which will enlighten the creativity of students.

Then, reading comprehension is explored from the characters' point of view. Students should explore reading in such a way as to become a part of it and write as if they were part of the story.

Twitter and Facebook social networks are embedded in the Moodle course so as to invent stories, create group works, and create social and popular interaction with the virtual classroom. There are step-by-step activities involving these websites, 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, tree diagrams, among others. A step-by-step guide is provided for creating these techniques, uploading it into the Moodle course, and creating the writing activity.

The book covers writing sentences, poems, songs, descriptions, compositions, essays, articles, cartoons, Ads, creating superheroes and their descriptions.

This book was written with Moodle version 1.9.5 in mind. But the examples of this book are compatible with all the versions of Moodle 1.9 series.