Download - PL2235 2009 Hot Potatoes
24 May 2009
Hot Potatoes
• The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive – multiple-choice,
– short-answer,
– jumbled-sentence,
– crossword,
– matching/ordering and
– gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
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Hot Potatoes
• Exercises can also be printed.
• Users can use The Masher to create index page.– Hence, it is a WYSIWYG webpage creator.
• It allows you to embed audio files, videos and images.
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Hot Potatoes
• Hot Potatoes was created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre.
• Commercial aspects of the software are handled by Half-Baked Software Inc.
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Hot Potaoes
• Students get feedback and marks interactively.
• Teachers can limit answering time.
Challenges
• Creativity.
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Is it a freeware?
• Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a license.
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Further information
• Hot Potatoes is free for use by individuals working for state-funded educational institutions which are non-profit making, on the condition that the material you produce using the program is freely available to anyone via the WWW. However, you need to purchase a license under any of the following conditions:– You are working for a company or corporation, or an educational institution which is not state-funded.
– You are in business for yourself.– You charge money for access to the material you make with Hot Potatoes.
– You do not make the material freely available through the WWW.
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Exploring Hot Potaoes
• JCloze, JCross and JQuiz.
• JMix and JMatch.
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Create a standard exercise
Create a drag and drop exercise
Configuration setup
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How to create them?
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References
• http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
• http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/eurocall2001/HotPotPastFuture/PastFuturePres.htm
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