LESSON 9: Hot Potatoes

In this class we learned how to use different tools that will help us in the future as educators to create exercises for our students.

These tools are:

1. JCloze: text with blank spaces

2. JMatch: questions

3. JQuiz: crosswords

4. Jcross: order sentences

5. JMix: association exercises

6. The Masher: remix all exercises in educational units.

Time for the parctical work, we do our exercises related with our topic.

JCLOZE: This potato lets you create a text with gaps for your students to fill. You can add clues, alternative words and much more. This type of exercise is very useful for your students to memorize key elements in a text because they use the words in context. This is my JCloze exercise.

JMATCH: This potato creates a match type exercise for your students. They will have to select the correct word for each element. You can add pictures. As my topic is the Solar System I add some planets pictures.

We continue the next day...!!

Continuing the latest class we are going to use the rest of the potatoes from the Hot Potatoes software:

JMIX: this potato allows the teachers to create exercise where students have to order the words in a sentence. The program allows more than one correct sentence in case there is more than one correct option. Like in the past two potatoes, you can link exercises together as long as they are located in the same folder.

JCROSS: this potato allows the teachers to create a traditional crosswords. You can use the "automatic grid" tool so the program orders the words for you, You can also add clues for your students and you can link it to other exercises you have made. My exercise is a crossword about some key terms of the Solar System.