Reflection on Hot Potatoes application

Reflection on Hot Potatoes application

Hot potatoes is a free application designed and produced by Half-Baked Software Inc that allows teachers either trainee, novice or even permanent teachers to create various interactive web-based exercises. This includes fill-in-the gap, mix and match, jumbled-sentence and crossword puzzle. The first time I was introduced to this application, I thought that it is difficult to use, but after I have been able to understand part and parcel of the application, I felt that this application has help increase the need for me to express my creativity.
I found this application very useful and helpful as it is quite easy to be used and very user-friendly. Even someone with the slightest knowledge of using technology, with little help from their peers, will be able to use this application. Hot Potatoes will help teachers, especially English teachers like me to be more creative in creating exercises for my students. Because it is interactive, it will increase the motivation of the students to participate in the activity as well as answering the exercises where it is automatically will help them improve their mastery in the language.
Exercises in Hot Potatoes application can be done in part and also it can be linked from one exercise to another. This is good as students get to try various types of exercises in learning the language. The idea of using computers or technology in learning language alone has boost the motivation to learn language, this benefit of get to try various different exercises will make a lazy and passive language learner to become more hardworking and an active learner.
Because of there are many benefit of using this Hot Potatoes application, I will use this application when I have become the English teacher in the future and I insist on the readers of this blog use this application as well as it will be very helpful and a handy little friend to all of you.