The Ultimate Guide to Hot Potatoes

Hot Potatoes.

Is that a familiar icon that you see on your laptop? This software is available in all our laptop, but do you actually know how to use it? This wiki page is specially dedicated to introduce this software to the many first users of Hot Potatoes. For all teachers out there, our group wish that this guide will be a useful tool in the future classroom application.

Let us now introduce the programme to you.

The Hot Potatoes suite encompasses six applications. These six applications are: JCloze, JMatch, JQuiz, JCross, JMix and The Masher. With them, you are able to create interactive online exercises for your students to work on.

Below are the links to the Step-by-Step guide for the various applications of Hot Pototoes.

1. JCloze

2. JMatch

3. JQuiz

4. JCross

5. JMix

6. The Masher 1, The Masher 2

(a) Our Views

How can the technology promote engaged learning 

(b) Lesson Plans 

1. Interactive online exercises (English)

2. Peer teaching of Science through the usage of online exercises

(c) Task Allocation

Find out exactly who did what

(d) Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths & Weaknesses

(e) Links to Resources

1. Glossary of Instructional Strategies      glossary.plasmalink.com/glossary.html#B

2. Thinking skills vocabulary and definitions     www.adprima.com/thinkskl.htm

3. Dimensions of Engaged Learning    http://www3.moe.edu.sg/edumall/tl/it_integration/engaging_it_practices/about.htm

4. Download Hot Potatos here     http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.htm#downloads

5. Presentation slides