Hot Potatoes from 1/2 Baked Software is a neat little tool that can be used by teachers not matter what their ICT capability. 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. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.I was originally developed by the University of Victoria and its HOME page offers links to tutorials, easy downloads and also links to resources.
One of the advantages of Hot Potatoes is that whilst your quizes can be exported for printing, they can also be converted into a text page which meeans that to run the acivites interactively all you need is a web browser, which all PC's have. The activity can either be run off an interactivw whiteboard with individuals coming and anxwering the key points on the board. or set up on a shared network drive and the students can access the quizes individually.
I feel the application is ideal for starters or plenaries where you may want to test understanding - but the real advantage is that it is easy to set up and seems to motivate students especially at Key Stage 3 / 4 although I have also had some success occasionally at KS5.
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