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. It is not open-source.
Many college students work numerous hours during any given school week and on weekends. Very often this situation prevents students in difficulty from seeking help in the form of tutorial sessions. Technological advances now allow teachers and students to circumvent physical constraints and to permit distance tutorials in a synchronous and asynchronous multimedia environment. The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate how the Horizon Wimba platform can be used for English as Second Language tutorials. This method allows students (individually or in small groups) to practice all of the four elements of the language: listening, reading, writing and speaking. The tutor is able to have a personal contact similar to that in a face to face meeting and allows for such activities as discussions, examination of documents, and Internet research. We will demonstrate how the use of this particular technology allows each participant (teacher and student) to work from any Internet connection in the world and at any mutually convenient time. In addition, it will demonstrate how no participant needs be extremely computer adept. Horizon Wimba necessitates Internet connection, headphones and microphone. This program also allows for simultaneous use of such programs as PowerPoint and Excel.
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