Moodle - Making Interactive Games For Free

Want to put (educational) games on your Moodle page?

There's a great, free site called http://www.what2learn.com/ where you can "Make A Game".
All you need is 8 "questions" and you can choose the game type and question type from:

• Hangman type game (guess the word).
• Multiple choice.
• Find the answer.

The games are easy to set up and then you need to play them so you can get the "Embed code" at the end. Once you've copied and pasted the "Embed code", and paste into a webpage on your Moodle page (make sure that you are in HTML mode, by clicking on the button that looks like this: <>.)

Job done! Another of the many gems from Mary Cooch's book:

Get this book - it's great!

Teachers - Moodle and You Tube videos

Are you at a school that has (understandably in a sense) blocked You Tube?
Here's a way around it:

Copy and paste the URL of the video you want from You Tube into either of these sites:

http://mediaconverter.org/ - you can only do 5 conversions per day (and sometimes it doesn't work).
or
http://www.youconvertit.com/ - set up a free account, although there is a limit on memory space used, it's pretty big.

Once you have converted the files (I convert to WMV file, so it can use Windows Media Player) then just paste them into a Webpage on your Moodle. Although do remember to upload the file to the page you want it on, something I keep forgetting to do. Then set up a hyperlink on your webpage.

This tip and others that I'll share are from the following book:

"Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds" by Mary Cooch. Look for it on Amazon - worth every penny if you currently find your Moodle page a bit dull. It looks like this: