Hot Potatoes
 

Hot Potatoes from Half-Baked Software Inc. http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/

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 not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

Samples Activities Made with Hot Potatoes:

Multiple Choice
Hatchet Chapters 1-2 (Version 4)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/survival/hatchet/chapter1.htm
Corn Production from Old Yeller (Version 5)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/yeller/corn2.htm
Cricket in Times Square Chapters 1-2 (Version 5)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading24/chapters1-2.htm
Ancient Greece Test (Version 5)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_greece/greece_test.htm
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Chapter 1 (Version 6)
 http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading37/chapter1.htm

Short Answer
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/chocolate/charlie/charlie-activity7.htm
Roman Coins
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_rome/coins2.htm

Jumbled Sentences
Stone Fox http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/fox/mix5.htm

Crossword
Where the Red Fern Grows
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/fern/crossword1o.htm

Facts about Egypt
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_egypt/crossword.htm

Matching/Ordering
Stone Fox Vocabulary (Drag)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/fox/match1.htm

Chocolate Touch (Drag with photos)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/chocolate/games/match2.htm
Egyptian Gods (Flashcards)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_egypt/egypt_match_flashcards.htm
Egyptian Gods (Drop Down)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_egypt/egypt_match.htm
Famous Roman Structures (Drop Down)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/ancient_rome/structures.htm
Stone Fox (Drop Down)
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/fox/match6.htm

Gap Fill
Vacation Under the Volcano
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading11/chapter_3voc.htm

Hot Potatoes Tutorials

Simple Directions http://www.rsc-yh.hull.ac.uk/hotpot.html

Step by Step with Illustrations for More Complex Exercises
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/HotPotatoes/UseHotPotatoes.htm

Video Tutorial Using Quicktime  http://www.svjhs.lcsd2.org/nhokanson/socialstudies/geography/hotpotatoes.html