hot potatoes deld session
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Hot Potatoes IntroductionJohn Allan
What is Hot Potatoes?•Free, authoring suite that
creates learning activities
Authoring tools
Why use Hot Potatoes?
• Easy to use (fast development)• Generates interactive activities
• Cloze (fill-in-the-blank)• Multiple choice/short answer• Matching• Crossword• Sorting/sequencing• Combination of these activities
Why use Hot Potatoes?
•Hot Potatoes web pages•Web pages customization
•Appearance•Timer•Buttons•Feedback•Prompts•Titles/instructions
Why use Hot Potatoes?
•Hot Potatoes generates SCORM 1.2 learning objects
Why use Hot Potatoes?•Hot Potatoes creates web pages
•Web pages are responsive for mobile devices
Why use Hot Potatoes?
• Mashed activities (combination of 5 activities)• Activities are printable• Arabic script - Right To Left
Why use Hot Potatoes?
•Host from:•USB thumb drive•Web server URL•An LMS (D2L, Moodle, Blackboard,…)•A local network
Why use Hot Potatoes?
• Activity media• Video• Animation• Text• Audio
Why use Hot Potatoes?
• learning Hot Potatoes is relatively easy•bounty of support resources
Hot Pot Manual
• Core features
https://hotpot.uvic.ca/hotpot6_help.pdf
Recent How to Guide
• Just-in-time structure• PDF (hyperlink from T.O.C.)
http://bit.ly/2kJanqs
Hacking Hot Potatoes
• Take Hot Pot to another Level
http://www.ewbooks.info
Creating an activity (Create one)• Plan• Generate text version (.txt)• Open Hot Pot & input text
• Add media• Reading text• Video• Audio• Images
2 minute challenge
• Create and try a JMix activity
Good practice
• Create the activity• Choose media and insert • Try the activity• Locate the project file• Locate the activity file(s)• Locate media files• Place them into a common folder
Activity Variety
Demonstration
Sample activitieshttp://hotpot.uvic.ca/wintutor6
Sample activities
http://ewbooks.info/hotpot/taxonomy
Acquiring Hot Potatoes
• http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php#downloads• Mac • Windows
Adding the Responsive Add-on
• http://ewbooks.info/hotpot/add-ons• Look for Facelift Responsive v1.3.
Online Tutorials
https://hotpot.uvic.ca/wintutor6/tutorial.htm
