hot potatoes and wikispaces 2

.... and success

Dropbox recently stopped creating public folders with new accounts so my dropbox was somewhat bereft. This bereavement wouldn't be a problem for normal users but if you want one of your documents to be publicly accessible then it is quite useful. Fortunately it is possible to enable one in your new account

instructions here

once you have done that you can add the htm file from your hot potato quiz to your public folder, copy the public link (instructions for this are also in the page mentioned above) and put that link into the handy piece of code I mentioned in the last post. Just to prove it works I am going to try and add a quiz into this post...



If you see it then I was successful. Incidental, this is a quiz from my Life in the UK test project, section 2, how the UK is governed.

Citizenship - Life in the UK test

Another one of my projects is the course to help students pass the life in the UK test. This, for those of you who don't know, is a 24 question multiple choice test about things such as the history of immigration, society, work, education and employment in the UK. There are some really useful and interesting things covered. Equally there is some, how shall we put it, less interesting items. I have spent the last few months researching the test and it's questions and I am now in the questionable position of presenting the, often quite dry, information in a way that will be appealing and memorable to the people studying to take the test.

For some people, what is essentially memorising a list of facts, this will be relatively straight forward. For others I think less so. I personally would find it quite hard to remember everything. So I am trying to find a balance between giving information with assessments to test comprehension and cement knowledge and putting students in a situation where they are directed to specific websites in order to find the information themselves  I am hoping that this range will appeal to different types of learners and make the course accessible to anyone that might need to take it.

Presentation, like with my IELTS course, is a ever present issue which I am currently battling with.