HRLC Creighton U. - Workshop Hot Potatoes 5

Hot Potatoes Basic Tutorial on Version 5.4
(http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/)

Follow this link if you would like to see the exercises from this handout "LIVE IN ACTION".

This HLRC handout will show you how to start with some of HP5's basic features. Click here to see some examples:

This Link takes you to an excellent introduction and tutorial.
1. www.theteachersguide.com/tutorial/intro.htm (For Older Version)

Part I - Planning (5-10 min.)

A. For creating a web site with a variety of interactive exercises and exercise types, it is important to take a few moments and sketch out how you plan to organize your site.
You need an index.htm page. This will be the starting page, or Table of Contents, where a student can always find orientation. (you should create a new directory on the server exclusively for HP files. We'll do that later).
B. Launch Netscape and open the Composer. See
"http://www.creighton.edu/langlab/ws/wwwcrea1/ws1b.htm"
for a quick intro on webpage creation.
Create your webpage and transfer your sketch from paper to
the computer. Insert the Links and Save your page to your
harddrive.

Part II - Hot Potatoes Overview. (5 min.)

JBC is Multiple Choice
JQuiz is Short Answer Quiz.
JMix is Jumbled Sentence Exercise.
JCross is Crossword Puzzle.
JMatch is Matching Exercise.
JCloze is Fill-in-the-Blank Exercise.

Part III - Let's start with ...

Multiple Choice (JBC)

A. Click on JBC. Each answer can be supplied with an individual feedback. Take a moment to explore the menu options, which you may use after the workshop.Give a title to the exercise, then think about a question. You can type in as many answers as you need. When you are ready for the next question, click on the black up-arrow (see right).
For more answers, click on the red up-arrow (see right).
Save your exercise FILE => SAVE and choose systematic naming conventions.
Save the file again, this time FILE => EXPORT TO WEB. This option will creat a HTML file wich contains all the necessary JavaScript for interactivity!

EXPORT! Mind your target audience. Do they have the latest browser?

Short-Answer Quiz (JQuiz)
B. Click on JQuiz. Type a title, a question, and possible correct answers. This format is tricky because you want students to find the correct answer, yet it is an open question. To avoid user frustration, you may supply a word list with the question, telling the learner to use only those words in their answer. OR, you may word your question in such a manner that the possible answers are not endless. You still have to think of all possible correct solutions.
Just like with the JBC above, this module creates only 1 file for many questions.

Jumbled Sentence Exercise (JMix)

C. JMix creates 1 file for EACH exercise. Therefore, I could name my 3 exercises 'adject3a', 'adject3b', etc. Click on JMix, enter title and question.
Each segment of a sentence is separated with a hard return, i.e. press the 'ENTER' / 'Return' key.

In the ALTERNATE SENTENCES
section, you enter any other acceptable option. Keep the
default checkmarks if you want
the alternative to be acceptable
even when the user does not
use all segments:

Note on Navigation: If you have, for example, jumbled sentence (JMix) exercises and you want the user to do them sequentially, then you must change the default navigation. 1. Choose OPTIONS => CONFIGURE OUTPUT, then choose the BUTTONS tab. Change the default name 'nextpage.htm' to e.g. 'adject3b.htm' which would be the second (b) adjective exercise after exercise one (a), if we stick with our naming convention from above.

Crossword Puzzle (JCross)
D. Click on JCross. From the menu, choose MANAGE GRID => AUTOMATIC GRID MAKER. Enter the words for your crossword puzzle and the program will try to include as many as possible. CAUTION: if you accept the default 15 for maximum grid size, your final will be best viewed on a 19" monitor. You may want to opt for a lower number, however, the smaller the grid size, the fewer words can be accomodated.

Click on MAKE THE GRID.

Let's add some clues for the students - click here
Hot Potatoes neatly displays all word by category (horizontal and vertical). Highlight a term, type in your clue in the window below, the hit 'OK'.
Once your are done, FILE => SAVE your work then FILE => EXPORT it to the web.
(If you have many words, especially long words, the user will wish for a 19" monitor!)

Matching Exercise (JMatch)

E. Click on JMatch. Fill in the text you would like your students to read on the left. The choices on the right must be logical and match the text on the left. Be careful not to include choices on the right that are correct more than once.

Next create the webpage by clicking on FILE=>CREATE WEBPAGE and choose your target audience. The following 2 images show the export options and the final output for "v5 browsers".

Fill-in-the-blank exercise (JCloze)
F. Click on JCloze. Type or 'copy & paste' the text. Then highlight the words or part of the words (see endings in red below) and click on "Gap". The red words or word endings will be filled in by the student. When done, go FILE=>EXPORT TO WEB. This time, there are fortunately no choices to be made with regard to the target audience.

Part IV - How do I get my ecercises 'on the web'? (10 min.)
Find the WS-FTP program and lauch it by double clicking on the icon, or by going to the START button, then PROGRAMS.

A. Fill in Profile Name (anything goes)
B. Host Name: bluejay.creighton.edu
Host Type: leave in Automatic detect
C. User ID: Your Creighton Email Username
Password: Your Bluejay Email Password.
( NOTE : Do NOT check 'Save Pwd' because
don't want anybody else using this public lab
computer have access to your account - if you
don't share your computer, you may want to
'Save Pwd')
D. Click OK to connect.

E. Double click on "public_html", which is your folder for the web.
==> If you don't have a webpage yet at Creighton, then FTP your index file into the "public-html" folder. Do the same with all the exercise files '*.htm'.
==> If you already have a web page at Creighton on your bluejay account, make a new folder by clicking on 'MkDir'. Name it 'hotpot5'. You want to FTP your index file into the 'hotpot5' folder.

F. (for Creighton only!) First time web page use on Bluejay must be followed up with a visit via PINE. Please telnet to PINE.
At the '$' prompt, type 'cd public_html' [ change directory ] to switch to the 'public_html' folder. Then type 'webready' to allow access to your web pages for anybody on the web. Type 'exit' to disconnect. Your are DONE!!!

G. (for Creighton only!) Start Netscape and visit your page. You will find it (most likely) at:
http://www.creighton.edu/~username

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at bohlke@creighton.edu or call 280-2505.