Hot Potatoes
Hot potatoes. What is hot potatoes? Refer to Wikipedia, The Hot Potatoes software suite includes five applications that can create exercises for the World Wide Web.
The applications are JCloze, JCross, JMatch, JMix and JQuiz. There is
also a sixth application called The Masher, that will compile all the
Hot Potatoes exercises into one unit. 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. Hot Potatoes has been freeware since October 2009. Hot Potatoes was first released in version 2.0 in September 1998, at the EuroCALL conference in Leuven, Belgium.
for this section, I use J Cross
Steps :
1. first, open the application and it will appear like picture bellow
2.choose JCross. an it will be like this one. there are many squares. you only have to write the answer ion the squares. 1 square, 1 letter.
3. After that if you have write all of the answers, you have to write the question. choose "add clues" with the key picture. .It will like this. there are across and down. just click to the answer and type the question in the "clue" section. if you have finished all, just click OK. it also happen to the "down" section a well.
4. After finished to do all section, (across and dwon), just click to OK. after that, what you have to do is make it into HTML. choose file,.
5. lastly you can open to your game at the file that contain the HTML. open it with Mozilla or chrome. an you can fine you JCross like this one. happy gaming!
Benefits : personally hot potatoes has a lot of benefits. first, it is an offline quiz, second, you can do it wherever and whenever you are. third, also it is online task. you can design it what ever model you want. there are 6 kinds that can make your quiz have many variations. you can also add picture on it but i don't at any picture because I don't know what picture do I have to add.
the weaknesses : not all students can operate some kind like this. so we must teach them first before we tell them to do the task. they have to have internet connection to download the game. and also the students at least, they must have equipment like laptop or computer unless they cannot do the task.
How I can use in my class : same with the online quiz that I post before, I will teach the material in class before I give them this quiz. After I give the material, I'll teach them how to operate the quiz, at least I give them clue how to do that. I can have 2 chances, whether I give them the soft copy or I just let them download by themselves. If some of them do not have internet connection, I prefer to give them the soft copy, but for those who have internet connection, I will let them download by themselves because it train themselves to be independent. after that, if they have done it at home, they would have to take the photo of their homework and submit to me via email, and for those who had not internet connection, they can send message for me about the score.
Read the articles in here
And then do the quiz. I know it is a bit hard, but it is only just for fun! Enjoy!!
you can see my first Hot Potatoes J Cross in here
and the second Hot Potatoes J Match in here
stay hungry, stay foolish.
for this section, I use J Cross
Steps :
1. first, open the application and it will appear like picture bellow
3. After that if you have write all of the answers, you have to write the question. choose "add clues" with the key picture. .It will like this. there are across and down. just click to the answer and type the question in the "clue" section. if you have finished all, just click OK. it also happen to the "down" section a well.
4. After finished to do all section, (across and dwon), just click to OK. after that, what you have to do is make it into HTML. choose file,.
5. lastly you can open to your game at the file that contain the HTML. open it with Mozilla or chrome. an you can fine you JCross like this one. happy gaming!
Benefits : personally hot potatoes has a lot of benefits. first, it is an offline quiz, second, you can do it wherever and whenever you are. third, also it is online task. you can design it what ever model you want. there are 6 kinds that can make your quiz have many variations. you can also add picture on it but i don't at any picture because I don't know what picture do I have to add.
the weaknesses : not all students can operate some kind like this. so we must teach them first before we tell them to do the task. they have to have internet connection to download the game. and also the students at least, they must have equipment like laptop or computer unless they cannot do the task.
How I can use in my class : same with the online quiz that I post before, I will teach the material in class before I give them this quiz. After I give the material, I'll teach them how to operate the quiz, at least I give them clue how to do that. I can have 2 chances, whether I give them the soft copy or I just let them download by themselves. If some of them do not have internet connection, I prefer to give them the soft copy, but for those who have internet connection, I will let them download by themselves because it train themselves to be independent. after that, if they have done it at home, they would have to take the photo of their homework and submit to me via email, and for those who had not internet connection, they can send message for me about the score.
Read the articles in here
And then do the quiz. I know it is a bit hard, but it is only just for fun! Enjoy!!
you can see my first Hot Potatoes J Cross in here
and the second Hot Potatoes J Match in here
stay hungry, stay foolish.
HI Pricil!
ReplyDeleteI really like your post!
I like the way you explain the guide in detail.
I also agree with you, that one of the benefit of hot potatoes that we can do it without internet and we can bring it home.
Can't wait for the next one!
Hi Jov!! Thank you for leaving comment here. I think we have the same way of thinking in this time. Hahaha. Wait for the next!
DeleteHi my friend!
ReplyDeleteAs always, I love your post. I could learn another website which I can use to make online quizzes. Oops.. I'm wrong.
It uses no internet! WOW!
However, I couldn't agree with you about your idea to let them download by themselves. Personally, I prefer the idea to give the soft copy one to the student. I heard it's better for you to learn something from a paper instead from a screen. :)
Thank you Mil.. yeah, everyone have a different perspective to see it. Hahhaha. obviously right Mil. You know me so well. have I told you about "i like paper than screen"? Because I forgot who knows about it.
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