Hot Potatoes

Learning can be enhanced by using the appropriate way. In order to avoid the "boring" feeling in learning, many applications come up to help. One of them is Hot Potatoes.

Hot Potatoes is another application to help you in learning and teaching. The teachers can make some kinds of questions to be answered.

There are five options teachers may use to make questions. They are JCloze, JMatch, JQuiz, JCross, and JMix.

First, I'll explain about JCloze.

JCloze helps you to identify inappropriate problems in a passage. For example, you have to find all of the conjuction in a passage then you have to identify what kind of conjuction is that. Teachers have to prepare the passages and share them to the students. As a teacher, you can follow these steps to use JCloze:

First, prepare an article, musics or videos related to the article. After that, choose JCloze in Hot Potatoes app.

Copy then paste your article there, and block some of the words if you want to make them as the problems.

Then, by choosing "Gap", we can set the problems into this:

We can set the problems easily.

You can save the problems you've made and then export it so that the students can do your work.

You can also add songs to JCloze by selecting the Insert menu and select "Media Object". Then choose "browse" and choose your file, arrange the Players to "Add Windows Media Player", then click OK.

To make JCross, you can follow these steps:

First, prepare the questions for the crosswords, both for the horizontal and vertical.

For example, the horizontal questions are;

2 - Most Crowded, China is the (crowded) country in the world

5 - Hot test, Sahara Desert is the (hot) place on Earth

and the vertical are;

1 - Smallest, Ant is the (small) insect I have ever seen.

3 - Wettest, Hilo is the (wet) city in the US.

You can fill "Comparative and Superlative Forms" in the tittle bar.

Different Page Numbers, Styles on Word and Table of Contents

Microsoft Word helps you to write your work. You can write anything in there and save it in your computers. But, in using Word, you have to know the features so that you won't feel difficult in writing with that app. If you're doing your thesis or something that requires you to put the page numbers there, you can follow these steps:

First, after you open a blank page, you can choose "Insert" on the toolbar and choose "Page Number", then you can choose where is the position of your number.

Then, you can arrange the numbers by selecting "Format Page Numbers", you can adjust whether you want a Roman number (i, ii, iii) or simple number (1, 2, 3).

To combine between Roman number and simple number, you can insert "Break" on the page before the one you want to change, and then choose the "next page".

Then you can start to set up again by repeating the previous steps in choosing Page Number.

Also, you can set the page into different style, from "Portrait" to "Landscape" by following these steps.

First, choose "Page Layout" on the toolbar box and then choose the "Orientation", then you can choose the orientation you want.

Don't forget to choose breaks if you want to change your page numbers and styles.

To make table of contents, you can easily click "References" and directly click "table of content", it is related with "Styles". You have to use the font styles so that the table of content can read your file.

Benefits:

1. Can use Microsoft Word appropriately
2. Can save time in editing

Animoto-Making Video

It's possible for you who make your own video. Animoto prepares the easier way to help you in making your video.
Animoto videos are created by mixing and matching blocks. You can add, remove or drag and drop to rearrange blocks within any video project, whether you're using one of our video templates or starting from scratch. To add a block, click on ADD A BLOCK button, then click on the type of block you'd like to add.

You can use video templates to design your own videos. They're designed with best practices in mind and be updated with your own photos, video clips, texts, logos, and brand colors.

You can update with the following steps:

1. Edit the text in the first block so that it's about your promo.

2. Add your promotional offer. It will be free shipping.

3. Upload your photos and videos use Getty Images library to find imagery that fits your promo.

4. Customize with your brand colors and add a logo for brand recognition.

Benefits:

1. Help the learners to learn easily with video, it can be watched anytime and anywhere

Learning with TED-Ed

As a teacher, you have to find ways to make your lesson funner. With the technology development, learning application also developed. TED-Ed is one of some useful and helpful way in teaching.

To create a lesson through TED-Ed, you can start with selecting a video related to the materials or subjects you want to teach. Copy then paste its URL to the box appeared in TED-Ed. Once you have selected your video, click through into the TED-Ed Lesson editor. You'll be able to add multiple choice questions, open answer questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources to your lesson. After publishing your lesson, you will receive a unique URL for your lesson page. Only you who have the access to this link so you can share the link to the class you teach. As your students submit their work, you can monitor them and see their progresses.

You can access this link as an example of a lesson with TED-Ed: Ted-Ed Evelyn

Good Luck!

Getting Set-Up with Mendeley

For providing academic services, Mendeley helps the writers or researchers to cite the citation much easier. Using Mendeley is not difficult, you just need to create an account and sign up to make a profile with its application.

Start to cite any citations by choosing a passage from any reliable resources to make your paper more trusted. First things first, open Microsoft Word and try typing and inserting some citations from the "references" toolbar in Word. Then, create a bibliography by using "insert bibliography" on the toolbar. Then, click "go to Mendeley" button on the search box to view your passages lists. Select the citations to add (you can use CTRL key to choose more than one citation). After that, click the "Send Citation to Word Processor" icon.