This week has been challenging, but interesting, as the previous ones. Week 8 has introduced us to a great number of tools that can help teachers create different exercises, both online and on the computer. It was so exciting to try different tools out while creating either a bingo game, a quiz, a cloze exercise or a matching game. We had a chance to compare them, find advantages and disadvantages of everyone of them and find the right tool for the job.
The discovery of the week was http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - a really wonderful tool that can help you create exercises on your computer and gives you a chance to post them online. It took me a while to understand how exactly I could create an online link to my exercise, but I managed to do it. It becomes easier and easier to introduce technology into the classroom with such amazing tools which are being offered to us with every week. We just need to try them out, see whether we can apply them in our practice and then enjoy our work.
The discovery of the week was http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - a really wonderful tool that can help you create exercises on your computer and gives you a chance to post them online. It took me a while to understand how exactly I could create an online link to my exercise, but I managed to do it. It becomes easier and easier to introduce technology into the classroom with such amazing tools which are being offered to us with every week. We just need to try them out, see whether we can apply them in our practice and then enjoy our work.
Hi Tania: I've been using hot potatoes for years. I really like the new development of being able to host the exercises online. It used to be a little bit difficult to find a way to post them online after you had created them. But now, hopefully, that is resolved. ~Robert
ReplyDeleteHi Tania,
ReplyDeleteI also found hot potatoes very useful for test construction. Only thing is right now we have been able to create only 'demo account' which is a temporary one. I think we will have to refresh the account in due course to make our exercise visible.
kinnari