Hot potatoes

‘Hot Potatoes’ is an online free-ware service that contains six applications for teachers to design worksheets for their students. These applications include:
· Multiple-choice worksheets
· Short-answer quizzes
· Jumbled-sentences
· Crosswords
· Matching/ordering exercises
· Cloze exercises
It was created by the University of Victoria and is controlled by a company called, ‘Half-Baked Software’.
Using this software, I quickly realised the educational benefits of this. A teacher will be able to create activities that compliment the concepts taught in class. It does not teach the concept, but the teacher can use it to support the learning in class. It has the added benefit of recording ongoing results and teacher and student accounts.
To sign up, you need to open a demo account and then download the package. Unfortunately this is only temporary and the full version does cost money. (About $80 US)
I think it’s a great resource for educators to use that will save a lot of precious time. However, I would probably not use it as it does have a cost associated with it and I probably wouldn’t use it often enough to warrant the cost.