In this post you will get to know very useful software called "Hot Potatoes" and "Quandary".
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot.php
Here are some examples of what one can create with the help of Hot Potatoes:
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/wintutor6/index.htm
http://www.finchpark.com/courses/hotpot/
Tutorials for the program: http://hotpot.uvic.ca/wintutor6/mashertutorial.htm
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/tutorials6.php (for Quandary as well)
Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name "Action Maze".
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php
Here are 2 examples of Quandary (for you to experience it and just have fun)
http://www.hlw-dl.at/content/maltaexperience/
http://surfingwithsarah.com/Documents/FairyCrystalHunt.htm
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2/tutorial/tutorial.htm (tutorial)
Here are 3 more websites with tools you might want to use:
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx
http://busyteacher.org/wordpuzzle/
Your assignment is:
1. To explore these two programs
2. To choose one of the following topics (and subscribe for them in the comments - do not choose the topic that is already chosen!):
1) Appearance and character
2) Family and relatives
3) Houses (inside and outside)
4) Household chores
5) Food
6) Eating out (all over the world)
7) Weather
8) Education
9) Shopping
10) Clothes
3. In groups of 2 or individually to create examples of activities on your own (at least 1 assignment for each type of activities):
1) Quiz
2) Crossword
3) Matching exercises
4) Fill-in gaps
5) Jumbled-sentence exercises
6) Quandary
