On Monday, March 09, 2020, it was the eighth meeting of TELL course, in this meeting we held a mid test.
Our mid-test is not a mid-test written on paper, but we made a project using an apllication called HotPotatoes, we create and design our own quiz by using this application.
What is Hot Potatoes?
Hot Potatoes is a set of programs that allows the production of
interactive web-based teaching exercises which can be delivered to any
computer. The suite consists on six individual programs: JCloze, JQuiz, JCross,
JMatch, JMix, and The Masher.
Since a quiz is a game or competition in which you answer
questions, accordingly, in JQUIZ the learner must create, in an interactive
way, the correct answer. This may happen in four different forms:
multiple-choice, short answers, a combination of the two just mentioned called
Hybrid questions, and multi-select questions (where the student needs to choose
several correct answers, among all the options provided). Feedback can be
provided for right and wrong answers, as well as a hint in the form of single
letters, which appear one at the time, according to student´s request. The
JQuiz also gives a score which is lowered if several hints letters were
requested.
A cloze test is a test in which words have been removed from
a short piece of writing, and students have to write what they think are the
correct words in the empty spaces; in JCLOZE students must do the same thing
but the program provides clues, and encouragement by automatic scoring. Hints
in the form of single letters are provided in case the student needs an extra
help.
A crossword puzzle is a game in which you write the answers
to questions in a pattern of numbered boxes. In JCROSS the learners write up
the words, by answering written questions or by looking at pictures and
guessing the correct word. If necessary they can ask for hints, in the form of
free letters.
A mix is a combination of different items so that the result
cannot be easily separated into its parts, and JMIX produces jumbled-sentences,
where the student can choose among several answers. In this case the hint
bottom provides whole words or even segments of the right sentence, if
requested.
Two things match when they look the same because they are
pairs, so in JMTCH there are two lists made up of words, or sentences, or
pictures, which the student has to match. Also in this program scoring is
available.
THE MASHER is a program that compiles batches of hot
potatoes exercises into a whole unit, in a sequential order, with the same
colour and appearance setting; it also helps to set certain convenient links
using the navigation bottons to create an index file for the unit. This is the
tool that allows you to upload the files to hotpotatoes.net, in case of having
an account, or if you have registered earlier.
At the Hot Potatoes home page, there is a free software
available that has limited entries, still it gives a clear idea of the wide
range of possibilities this tool has for ELT. The set with a wider range of
entries is not freeware, but can be used without conditions by members of
public or non-profit educational institutions. However, a registration is
necessary. H.P. were created by the University of Victoria Humanities Computing
and Media Centre (Canada). A commercial wing called Half Baked Potatoes
provides the necessary funds.
The production can be uploaded into a web page which itself
can be uploaded to hotpotatoes.net (handled by Half Baked Potatoes) from within
the hot potatoes program. In this site there are plenty of examples. To enter
this net, registration is obligatory.
How to make quiz by using Hot Potatoes?
1. open Hot Potatoes ( if you have already download it )
2. click JQuiz
3. after you click JQuiz, you will see an option like the
picture below :
4. You may start by write your Quiz tittle, and you can
write the question in Q1 table
5. after you write your question, choose multiple-choice,
fill the optional answer in table A, B, C, D, then ceklist the correct answer
for your question. you can also give some feedback as a response when your
students answers each option. you also can insert the background to make your
quiz more interesting.
6. after all finished you can click New and Save the File.
Here is example of my Quiz project by using Hot Potatoes :
The benefits doing this project are it increase my knowledge
about using technology for make some porject, I can know how to make questions
using application with easily, so I can prepare my own quiz that I will give to
my students one day.
