Review of Silvina P. Hillar's book "Moodle 1.9: English Teacher's Cookbook"

1. Moodle Book Review By: Jose, Mary and Sandra

2. 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

4. Unjumbling and connecting sentences

5. Using Twitter and Facebook for surveys

6. Brainstorming ideas using Forums

7. Answering a quiz designed in a lesson

8. Uploading pictures from Microsoft Word

9. Connecting events—uploading drawings from Microsoft Word

10. Linking to a website and writing a description

11. Carry out activities through Hot Potatoes.

12. Click to access the Hot Potatoes website

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

16. Matching text to speech bubbles of strip comics

17. Picture paragraph matching

18. Sceneries and possible stories through flowcharts

19. Working with painting—Salvador Dali's art

20. Choosing a book by its cover

21. Advising posters

22. Cooking recipesPicture paragraph matching

23. 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.

25. Understanding secondary characters

26. Adding technology to a story

27. Statues can think

28. Changing an adventure

29. Old age versus childhood

30. Beauty versus ugliness

32. Writing detailed sentences according to the topic sentence

33. Multiple choice questions—selecting the correct concluding sentence

34. Mixing paragraphs

35. Selecting correct sentences

36. Adding detailed sentences

37. Writing the topic and the concluding sentences

38. Hamburger paragraph—writing a composition using three types of sentencesEmbedding videos

40. Cause and effect diagram, Fishbone fact or Ishikawa diagram: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram)

41. Positive and negative points list

42. Play the reporter

43. Writing a story guessing facts

44. Writing a very short play using text messages

45. Chain composition

46. How to summarize informationInserting a Twitter button in Moodle

48. Compare—similarities and differences of one topic to other topics

49. Associate—relationship between the current topic and another one. Compare it to another topic it makes you think of

50. Analyze—relationship between the components of the topic and its parts

51. Apply—usage of the topic

52. Argue—arguments for and against the topicUsing Sweet Home 3D

54. Living in the country versus living in an overcrowded city—drawing Venn diagrams with clip art from Microsoft Word

55. Being famous versus being unknown—drawing Venn diagrams with SmartDraw software

56. Having a healthy lifestyle versus bad habits—completing a Venn diagram using the website: (http://classtools.net/)

57. Famous coincidences—drawing Venn diagrams of Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy using Paint

58. Comparing different types of pollution—drawing Venn diagrams using MOffice Visio 2007

59. Types of students—drawing Venn diagrams using Edraw Max

61. Changing a poem into a cartoon—using resources from Web 2.0

62. Listening to a poem and writing another end to it

63. Imagining that your house is a palace

64. Superheroes have other powers—creating your own hero using tools from Web 2.0

65. Flying shoes—creating an Ad using the website (http://animoto.com/)

66. Becoming your idol—using Quandary 2 in Moodle

67. Embedding a video from YouTube and changing the lyrics of the songCreating an Ad using Animoto

69. Adding data to pictures—creating a mind map using MindMeister

70. Providing a situation to a story—drawing a mind map using the website, Draw Anywhere

71. Creating mind maps using resources from Web 2.0

72. Creating a tree diagram using Microsoft Word

73. Pictures in a tree diagram—creating a tree diagram using the website, creately.com

74. Completing a tree diagram comparing two persons using the website, my.lovelycharts.com

76. Writing from a viewpoint—using tiny URLs in the discussion clock

77. Picturing the clock diagram—adding images

78. Music in the clock diagram—embedding mp3 files to our Moodle course

79. Just words—using a target diagram to create a discussion clock and creating a story out of it

80. Questions in the clock diagram—writing a newspaper article

81. Correcting through a clock diagram

82. Designing a discussion clock in order to create an aircraft using resources from Web 2.0