Hot Potatoes

Hot Potatoes is a software where teachers and students can communicate with each other, and allows the teachers to create worksheets for the students online. Hot potatoes is a simple and easy to use software that allows the teacher to educate students in all the learning areas in a fun and creative way. It acts as an educative tool to support learning rather then a means actually teaching a specific topic or learning area, which means that it can be integrated into the classroom effectively. Hot potatoes has six applications which enables the teacher to create interactive worksheets and allows the students to comment back to the teacher. the six applications are:

1. Multiple choice questions
2. Short answers
3. Jumbled sentence
4. crossword
5. Matching/ ordering
6. gap filling exercise

These areas help children in the development of several English skills such as writing, spelling and sentence structure. It is also effective in the classroom because it allows the students to immediately check if there answers are correct, so it allows them to 'have a go'. Hot potatoes is not only beneficial for the students in that it is a creative way to learn and communicate with the teacher, but it is also beneficial for the teacher because it is easy to upload the worksheets and they can organise the students grades and worksheets in one area. It also helps in several other learning areas such as maths, society and environment and technology and enterprise due to the activities that can be posted by the teacher to the student. An example of how Hot potatoes can be integrated into several learning areas and the classroom can be located on this website http://marshalladulteducation.org/student_lessons1.htm where it provides several worksheets on different topics for the students to fill out. Hot potatoes is a great tool that assists and supports teachers in educating the children about several different concepts in a fun, creative and interactive way.