Hot potatoes and wikispaces

When I was working on my DTTLS I created a wikispaces page. At this point it is still not public because it is very much a work in progress. One of the things I wanted to do with it was be able to put interactive material into it. I have used hot potatoes a lot in moodle and today I set about trying to get a hot potatoes quiz into my wiki. I didn't necessarily think it was possible but, success!

Here is how I did it.

The best way to do this is probably by uploading your hot potato files onto hotpotatoes.net. This will allow you give students log in details to their own quizzes as well as giving you a teacher log-on where you can check scores etc. However it is not a free service and when in the testing stage, as I am,  it is hard to justify the cost. So I needed to find a free web host, while drop box is not exactly this it does hold files on the web.

Then using the lovely bit of script
From this wiki, you only need to put into your wiki page as 'other html' under the instert widget option. The there you have it. There is a hot potato in your wiki page.

Unfortunately there is a problem with this. The web page in dropbox is https:// so only works on my browser when logged in as me. So in a sense, this is successful but I need to go back to dropbox and work out how to make files public. 

to be continued...