Hot Potatoes

The Materials Development modules will make use of an introductory period with information, DIY videos, online tutorials and work tasks for the participants. The resulting materials will be uploaded / e-mailed to the course trainer for commenting and online delivery. The course participants are asked to peer-review materials developed by the other participants. The course trainer will comment on the outcomes and suggest possible improvements etc.

Participants

This field will soon have presentations of each of the module participants

Tasks

Below you can read the tasks that are needed to get to the next step of the course

First task - Personal introductions

Your first task is to prepare and submit the information below, deadline is June 24th:

A short presentation of yourself, e.g. your nationality, are you a teacher or a student (studying what), etc.

Language(s) that you teach or want to teach.

Which kind of students do you teach or plan to teach?

If you are a teacher the please describe:

- the teaching facilities etc. e.g. number of students in your class,

- do you have access to computers in the class,

- have you used computers or materials produced by you with computers in your present class?

- Etc.

What is your personal interest in the chosen module?

Which experience do you have with the module content?

2nd Task - Theory

Please read the unit on how to make your own CALL exercises in the course book on pages 40-47 (in the English version). You can download the course book in five languages from this address: http://www.languages.dk/materials.html#Course_Book

Please also watch the videos that shows
"Hot Potatoes Installation",
and "HP preparations"

The videos are on the course DVD or you may download them from this address:
http://www.languages.dk/materials.html#Do_It_Yourself_videos_

Your next step is to download and install Hot Potatoes from http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ After installation, please remember to register (click Help) this is free, but needed to fully open the program.

Deadline for the 2nd task is:

3rd Task - Practice

Select and download a text and video from the POOLS digital area.

Carefully follow the DIY video units and prepare the following exercises in Hot Potatoes:

Quiz
Crossword
Matching Exercise
Gap Fill
Mixed Sentence

Remember to save all your work in one folder and to link from exercise to exercise,

When the exercises have been completed then zip the work (described in the DIY video) and mail the zipped files to ka@ots.dk Kent Andersen will then test the exercises and comment on these.

With your permission he will put the exercises online with link from this page.

Deadline:

4th task - testing and feedback

Prepare a lesson plan that includes use of the developed exercises. Please e-mail the plan to ka@ots.dk

Test the exercises in your own class(es) and eveluate the usefulness of these also ask for student feed-back. Please compile your experiences and the student evaluations into a documents that you e.mail ka@ots.dk

Submit messages

Some of the course participants have had problems with e-mail fonts so I have decided to include a form for submitting your texts:

Please prepare your messages in Word or similar text processors before submitting them

Submit your text here

Last edit: 21-12-2010

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