Hot Potatoes: A Fun Tool for Adding Interactive Exercises to Your Web Site

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"Hot Potatoes A Fun Tool for Adding Interactive
Exercises to Your Web Site"

• Workshop Leaders
• Heather McCullough, Director, Language Resource
  Center, UNC Charlotte
• Yuliya Baldwin, Lecturer in Russian, UNC Charlotte

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Overview of Workshop

• What we will and will not learn
• Will learn how to use Hot Pot to create Hot Pot
  files and htm files
• Will not learn how to publish files to web
  server or build a regular web page

• Intro to Hot Pot and examples of sites
• Hands-on training in
• JCloze
• JMatch
• JQuiz

• Follow-up and show-and-tell

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Example Sites

• UNCC Kanji Practice http//lrc.uncc.edu/japanese/
  kanji_practice
• Turkish Listening (web integration)
  http//www.international.ucla.edu/TurkishTutor/
• Chemistry (images and feedback)
  http//www.wpbschoolhouse.btinternet.co.uk/page04/
  Mextract/Mextract5QHonly.htm
• Math (symbols) http//www.mathsnet.net/asa2/modul
  es/p35match.html
• Geology (images and feedback)
  http//www.wpb4.btinternet.co.uk/page12/8Gmc.htm
• Chemistry (crossword puzzle) http//mysite.wanado
  o-members.co.uk/science_ICT/hotpots/ks3/tempheat.h
  tml

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J-Cloze in English

• http//lrc.uncc.edu/mccullough/unctlt_2006/jcloze_
  example.htm
• http//mrdanault.com/cloze5.htm

J-Match

• a. Matching
• http//lrc.uncc.edu/japanese/kanji_practice/Unit2
  07/Matching/matching.htm
• b. DragDrop
• http//www.mathsnet.net/asa2/modules/p35match.html
  
• c. Flash Cards
• http//teach.fcps.net/trt1/hotpot/flashcards/flash
  cards.htm

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The main JQuiz screen

• JQuiz is used to create question-based quizzes.
• JQuiz has four different question types.
• JQuiz exercise can contain an unlimited number of
  questions.
• JQuiz question can contain an unlimited number of
  correct or incorrect answers, each with feedback.

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The main JQuiz screen
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JQuiz Question Types

• In multiple-choice questions, the student chooses
  an answer by clicking on a button.
• If the answer is correct, the button
  caption will change to a smiley face -), and if
  it's wrong, it will change to an X. The student
  can see feedback explaining why it's right or
  wrong if you write the feedback when you make the
  exercise!  Example
• In short-answer questions, the student has to
  type the answer into a text box on the page, and
  press a Check button to see if it is correct. The
  page will try to match the student's answer to a
  list of correct or incorrect answers you have
  defined. If a match is found, the feedback for
  that answer will be shown.  You can also include
  a Hint button, which will give the student one
  letter of the answer using the Hint button
  incurs a penalty on the score. Example

• A hybrid question is a combination of a
  multiple-choice question and a short-answer
  question. In this type of question, the student
  is first presented with a text box and asked to
  type the answer. However, if the student fails to
  get the answer right after a specified number of
  tries (which you can configure in the
  configuration screen), the question changes to a
  multiple-choice question to make it easier.  
• Example

• Finally, a multi-select question asks the
  student to select several of a specific set of
  items. The idea here is that the student must
  select all the correct items, and not select all
  the wrong items. Example

Loaded Hot Potato in Russian Rossiya
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How to Save JQuiz?

• You will always save 2 versions of your HotPot
  work
• The project file that you can only open with
  HotPot and that you can modify
• The htm or WebCT file that you can publish online
  and that can be opened with a web browser or with
  WebCT that you cannot modify.

Now we are ready to create our own JQuiz
activities! What do we need for this?
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Ingredients Needed for Success

• Curiosity -

to keep up with technology!
2. Daring -
Mistakes are easy to make but easy to fix!
3. Time -
Creation can be time consuming but its rewarding!
Attitude!