Hot potatoes

1. Hot potatoes and other useful tools

2. The HotPotatoes test set consists of six different program m s . Five are the so called basic test tools and one tool, the Masher, combines the different tests to a test series or test unit. Using it you can create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching - ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

3. Not only can you create traditional assessments, but you also have the opportunity to include crosswords and jumble puzzles. If you want to keep the "Free" feature for educators intact, you have to be able to do without the Masher program. Masher allows you to combine the various exercises together to form a cohesive unit. Hot Potatoes is a very flexible program which generates quizzes, cloze passages or crosswords. It is freely downloadable from http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

4. JMATACH The JMatch program creates matching or ordering exercises .

5. A JMatch activity produces a matching or ordering exercise. A list of fixed items appears on one side (these can be images or text), with jumbled items on the other side.

6. JQuiz is used to create question-based quizzes. JQUIZ

7. A JQuiz exercise can contain an unlimited number of questions, from four different question types, and each question can contain an unlimited number of correct or incorrect answers, each with feedback. JQuiz can create four different types of questions: multiple-choice short-answer hybrid (a short-answer question that turns into a multiple-choice question after several attempts) multi-select (in which the student has to choose several of a set of options, then check the choices) In short-answer questions, the student’s guess is intelligently parsed and helpful feedback to show what part of a guess is right and what part is wrong. The student can ask for a hint in the form of a “free letter” from the answer.

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilLRHOSzJVU

9. The JMix program creates jumbled-sentence exercises. JMIX

10. You can specify as many different correct answers as you want, based on the words and punctuation in the base sentence, and a hint button prompts the student with the next correct word or segment of the sentence if needed . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkoyPSBeEZk It’s very useful for language teachers ..

11. Creates gap fills with an unlimited number of correct answers . JCLOSE

12. The JCloze program creates gap-fill exercises. Unlimited correct answers can be specified for each gap, and the student can ask for a hint and see a letter of the correct answer. A specific clue can also be included for each gap. Automatic scoring is also included. The program allows gapping of selected words, or the automatic gapping of every nth word in a text.

13. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=P63djcH0SJ8&feature=related

14. The JCross program creates crossword puzzles which can be completed online. JCROSS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DZ5h2JxHQ&playnext=1&videos=gU5nnffd9sc&feature=mfu_in_order

15. Masher It's used to combine learning tasks. JMASHER http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oNzuIp8Ddw&playnext=1&videos=LSU3FmNts1k&feature=mfu_in_order

16. VuVox is a f ast layout and customisation of photos, video, text and music. Add media hotspots, narrate interactivity. Publish to any webpage   Prezi helps to c reate maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide.

17. Glogster is an online poster application . Combine images, video, music, photos and audio to create mulit i media pages. Embed into any webp Teachers can create accounts and get up to 200 free student accounts! age.

18. iSpring Converter This PowerPoint add-in, which is available as a free download, converts PowerPoint to web friendly Flash movies     Slideshare The Slideshare website provides a place to view, download and share PowerPoint presentations. If you contribute a presentation, you can choose to share it publicly or privately.  

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