One step further – creaye your own ICT-based teaching material

Creating our own ICT-based teaching materials enables us to personalize the teaching-learning
process of each of our students through, for example, online personalized exercises that students can
do in class and also at home if extra practice is needed or wished.
We can create these kind of exercises in websites like Discovery School PuzzleMaker or Smile
Clear, but, if we are really looking to personalize our teaching at the most, the best is to use
authoring tools. One of the most popular in ESL is the software program Hot Potatoes, which
includes different applications to create multiple-choice, short-answer, gap-fill, jumbled-sentence,
crossword and matching/ordering exercises.
Though it requires purchase, it is possible to install a trial version to try it out. My personal
experience by using it has been very good. Sharing my Hot Potatoes exercises with you would
require a constant update of their links, as I created them under the aforementioned trial version.
Nevertheless, you can click on the images bellow to have a better view of screenshots of the JQuiz
and JCloze exercises I created to practice the present continuous and past simple tense respectively
after having viewed video stories with my learners. As you can see, the customizing options are
practically limitless. If you have liked it, do not doubt to access to the Hot Potatoes example
sites, tutorials, downloads, etc. and start testing it out!