The Summary/Reflection of Authoring Software (Quiz Faber and Hot-Potatoes)
The topic of this summary and reflection is authoring software, and to tell about this topic, we should focus two kinds of tools as following: Quiz Faber and Hot Potatoes. To begin with Quiz Faber, you should download it from http://www.lucagalli.net/en/ and install it on your computer. It helps us to create fast multimedia quizzes in HTML and JavaScript. In spite of knowing anything about these terms, Quiz Faber does it automatically for us, so it becomes for the teacher to prepare brand new quizzes. We can create different kinds of questions by using this tool: True/False question, multiple choice and answer questions, open ended questions, gap filling, and matching exercises. At the end of the activities we can have a self-evaluation, because the quizzes evaluate the score and say the percentage of the correctness of our answer. Therefore, it is very successful authoring software, I think.
The other authoring software is Hot-Potatoes. By using this authoring software we can create web-based teaching activities, and these exercises and activities use HTML and JavaScript like Quiz Faber. Again this software is as practical as Quiz Faber, but actually it is a little bit more complicated than Quiz Faber. However, we can make up new teaching exercises without getting through any trouble with it. Just we download it from http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ and install on our PC, then we can start to create new exercises as if we made a fill in the blanks exercise. We fill the blanks with our questions and correct and incorrect answer then we push the save and finish button … We see this new exercise in HTML and JavaScript. That’s so easy, right? All we need are a computer, installation of the software and background knowledge about English, which is required for all the teachers to create quizzes. In the Hot-Potatoes there are five programs which are the JQuiz program for creating question-based quizzes, the JCloze program for creating gap-fill exercises, the JCross program for creating crossword puzzles, the JMix program for creating jumbled-sentence exercises, and the JMatch program for creating matching or ordering exercises.
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