Hot Potatoes

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Hot Potatoes

• Using Interactive Lessons for Students of All
  Ages
• By Rusty Parker

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Essential Question

• How can I get students to learn the topics that I
  teach by using a computer and the Internet?

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Interactive Lessons

• By creating interactive lessons on the computer.
• Active Learning
• Dialog with Others
• Dialog with Self
• Hot Potatoes software can be used to create
  activities for individual practice or for
  cooperative groups.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• 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 Software

• Created by the Research and Development team at
  the University of Victoria (British
  Columbia, Canada) Humanities Computing and Media
  Centre.
• Sales and registration is managed by Half Baked
  Software, Inc.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of
  charge for publicly funded, non-profit,
  educational users who make their pages available
  on the web.
• Other users must pay for a license.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• There are three main steps in creating an
  exercise
• Entering data (questions, answers and so on)
• Configuring the output (preparing the button
  captions, instructions, and other features of
  your Web pages)
• Creating Web pages (compiling your exercise into
  HTML pages).

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Hot Potatoes Software

• JQuiz
• JCloze
• JMatch
• JMix
• JCross
• The Masher

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Hot Potatoes Software

• JMix
• Used to create jumbled-sentence or jumbled-word
  activities.
• Can click on the word to select or use the mouse
  to drag and drop.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• JCloze
• Create fill-in-the-blank or
  gap-filled exercises for the world wide web.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• JMatch
• Create matching activities.
• Create activities that require items be put in
  order.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• JCross
• Create interactive crossword puzzles.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• JQuiz
• Create interactive multiple-choice or true/false
  quizzes.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• The Masher is a tool for automatically compiling
  batches of Hot Potatoes exercises into a single
  unit of material.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• The Masher is a professional-level tool, and the
  ordinary Hot Potatoes registration key will not
  unlock it. Without a registration key, the Masher
  will only create units of three files. To get a
  registration key for the Masher, you will need to
  purchase a commercial license for Hot Potatoes.
• Allows you to build HTML files with the same
  colors and appearance settings.
• Allows you to link the exercises together using
  the navigation buttons, and create an index file
  for the unit.

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Hot Potatoes Software

• How do my students use it?
• The web master at your school can upload it to
  the school web page.
• The Gaston County Schools web master may be able
  to upload it to the county web page.
• It can be placed within a folder on the shared
  directory at your school.

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Hot Potatoes

• Using Interactive Lessons for Students of All
  Ages
• By Rusty Parker