The great thing about “recipe” books like the  Moodle 1.9 English Teacher’s Cookbook is that they spark off ideas in you and motivate you to  try them out with your own classes. I found that here from the very first chapter: suggested activities flow fast and freely from one page to the next, enthusing you with the desire to go off and personalise them. The author, Silvina P Hillar is an  English teacher with a passion for technology and her technical reviewer,  PHM Ben Reynolds is an award-winning fictionist and teacher of Writing. A lot of expertise has gone into tailoring the activities to the English classroom. You can read a breakdown of all the chapters here, but I’ll take them one at a time…