How to Create Hot Potatoes Quiz - ELT

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There are many tools to measure a student's comprehensive abilities or any language components. While talking about English language, web 2.0 tools have become more advanced and user friendly to apply all the task based learning to digital platforms. Google for Education has launched several educational products such as Google Meet for online teaching, Jamboard for creating a handwritten notes and infographics, Google Forms for taking a unit end tests, Blogs to share reading resources and material to students and to write a thoughtful and deep thinking activity task given by teacher. But there are plenty of tools which have launched since many years back but still unnoticed to many teachers.

Let's take our classroom learning to another arena of digital teaching learning process.

What is Hot Potatoes?

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. The Java version provides all the features found in the windows version 6, except that you can't export a SCORM object from Java Hot Potatoes.

Here is the link. Download Hot Potatoes to your PC/Laptop. or (Click Here).

Here is a well described web resource to read about the tutorial of this program. Some of the sample quizzes are also worth visiting. Click Here.

Here is a video

how to create a quiz using Hot Potatoes.

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Hyperlink Your Blog

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Technology gives us numbers of opportunities to explore new things and techniques. It does not only makes us independent but also make us confident about using its features more effectively. Let's learn something new in this blog.

Many of you may have a question that how to make our blog link clickable while commenting. It's necessary when you want to reach out to more audience for your blog. Here's how you can embed blog links in the comment section. Let's follow some easy steps.

1. Go for the comment box below the blog post.

2. Here is one HTML code to type. You can also copy this entire code to the comment box.

<a href="paste-your-link-here">Blog Title</a>

3. If you want to give your blog's introduction to the author, you can also type a brief note above the code. If you're submitting your blog to your teacher then you can add some lines as following.

Respected sir here's my assignment/answer/blog/ regarding this thinking activity/task.
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Respected sir. this is my answer attached with the link.

4. Make sure that you paste your link between the quotation marks. Give your link a small title such as click here or your blog title or anything short and sweet. Remember that you've to type your blog title only In the space given for it.

5. To check whether you've made the process correctly, click on preview button. You will see your blog title is now embedded and highlighted in different colour.

6. Ta Daa !!! Post your comment !

Here is a Wiki How page for better understanding.
https://www.wikihow.com/Post-a-Comment-on-a-Blog-With-an-Embedded-Link

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How to Burn CD and DVD in Windows 10

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Watching videos, reading blurbs and introduction of books and throwing a general look on various online nuggets are contemporary practice of quick, instant learning. By practicing this daily, one can learn numerous things in a single day. In this fast growing 21st century, one will require to cop up with the pace of learning. This will increase one's confidence and positively enhance one's approach towards learning. Internet has played the pivotal role in changing the modes of learning. One can access big amount of data from anywhere, anytime.

In this blog, a video is embedded from YouTube and through the screenshots and bullet points, it is tried to explain people about burning process of CDs and DVDs. Let's learn something fast...

CD means - Compact Disc
DVD means - Digital Versatile Disc
OS - Operating System
RW - Re-Writable

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Some DVDs are Re-Writable. It means that they can be formatted and reused in future. Some DVDs are Readable or Recordable only, those cannot be formatted once the data is inserted. It is advisable to purchase Re-Writable discs for better utilization of data. Click here to know more about DVD Recordable.

* Video about how to burn CDs and DVDs on Windows 10 OS.

The Video is embedded form the YouTube channel Windows Know How. Click Here to visit the channel.

There are two ways to use CDs and DVDs. One is to just transfer data to disc like a pen drive. The other one is to play the discs on audio/video player as multimedia viewing purpose. Both can be used as per the user requirements.

* After inserting the disc in drive, click on "burn files to disc". This will open a child window asking how the user wants to use the disc. It is advisable to select "Like a USB flash drive", for easy removal and addition of data at convenience.

* Select one or multiple items from the source you want to copy the files. Drag and drop them to the disc window.

* Eject the disc and try to reopen the files on other computers. If you've added videos or audio files then try to play them on a regular audio/video player.

* If anything which is not understood, then watch the full video again.

At the Department of English, MK Bhavnagar University, each student is given the blank DVD for burning their presentation videos, at the end of every semester. This video will be of good help for them. Like it is mentioned on the top of the blog that self learning is now necessary in today's era. It gives the experience of owning what we have learnt. This blog is a key takeaway to own your learning.

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