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.
To make JQuiz, you can follow these steps:

You can prepare an article with the multiple choice questions.

Then choose JQuiz, then this page will appear:

After that, fill the tittle with your materials.

You can create the article by choosing "create or edit a reading text to be included in the exercise".

After that, you can make questions related to your article above.

Then, you can save it and export again to let the others do your quiz.

The next is JMatch. To make exercises with JMatch, you can follow these steps:

First, click JMatch after opening the app.

Then, in the Title column, fill the title.

And then, on the left side, you can write the half first sentences, and on the right side, you can write the half rest sentences.

Don't jumble it, every sentence must be in the correct order.

You can save and export it to share with others.

The last is JMix. JMix is when you want to mix all of your quiz or questions you've had before (JCloze, JCross, JMatch and JQuiz) altogether.

Benefits:

1. Make the learning funner
2. Design the subjects with simple explanation

Happy Playing!