VNU Spring2008 - Day 7 - May 27, 2008

Submitted by jeff on Tue, 2008-05-27 07:27

Today we are going to learn about online quizzes, games, and activities.

Please watch this Screencast to see today's plan.
(Either watch on the projector, or have one person download it and  share)

First, look at examples of online activities below.
 You can save these into your 'Materials Archive' by click File/Save Page as.
   Online Activities

Flash based activities (like those listed below) are difficult or impossible to save, so you can only access these when you have an internet connection.

Now let's experiment with creating your own activities using a program called Hot Potatoes.

First, one person will need to Download Hot Potatoes 
(if everone downloads it, we will probably have connection problems, so please only download it once and share)
Each person will then need to register their Hot Potatoes
To do so, go to the registration page, enter your information, check your email,  copy the 'key', click Help/Register in Hot Potatoes,  and paste  the key.
You can see the entire process in this screencast: Registration Screencast

OK, now it's time to try creating activities.
Please look at The Hot Potatoes Guide.
Then, open your Hot Pototoes program and start creating. Good luck!

If you succeed at creating Hot Potato activities, upload the .html files  to EFL537.com by attaching them to a blog post.
(Create / Blog entry   - Attach File)



Assignments:

  • Post one more reading reflection on your EFL537.com blog
  • Continue developing your Edublog or Wordpress blog.
  • Add more bookmarks to your Del.icio.us account

Using Hot Potatoes

Submitted by HungTam_Tong on Sun, 2008-06-08 18:54.
Anyone who are teaching English and often use games, different activities in class will find Hot Potatoes very useful because we can design different kinds of activities, tasks as well as exercises to teach that will make the lessons more interesting and lively. However, how to design those suitable, we have to know how to use each part of Hot Potatoes to decide what we will apply to do. we need to make sure the activities will help to teach better and more effectively. The more we use Hot Potatoes to design, the more fluently we will be that is not only good for teaching but there are a lot of challenges.