Hot Potatoes with Tami Maloney

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 publicly funded, non-profit, educational users who make their pages available on the web.

Download Hot Potatoes from these links:
	Hot Potatoes Version 5 for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP (version 5.5.0, self-extracting, auto-installing zip file)
	Hot Potatoes Version 5 for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP (version 5.5.0, plain zip file)
	Hot Potatoes Version 5 for Macintosh PowerMac/G3/G4 OS 8+ (version 5.3.6, self-extracting StuffIt file)
	Hot Potatoes Version 6 for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP (version 6.0.3, self-extracting, auto-installing zip file)
	Hot Potatoes Version 6 for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP (version 6.0.3, plain zip file)

USE VERSION 5!!

While the latest version of Hot Potatoes has a prettier look and some new features, it is not compatible with many computers in today's classrooms. PCs must have Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer, and Macs must be using OSX and the Safari browser. I made the mistake of using the latest version of Hot Potatoes for my VDOE 2003 Released Items tests, only to hear from users all over the state that they were *unable to use them in their schools.

*Note - I've since re-done all of the grade 3 and grade 5 VDOE Released Items tests, and will be working on the grade 8 and EOC 2003 tests after the VSTE conference.

Hot Potatoes is FREE for use by individuals or non-profit educational institutions, on the condition that the material you produce using the program is freely available to anyone via the WWW. However, you need to purchase a license under any of the following conditions:

You are working for a company or corporation.
You are in business for yourself.
You charge money for access to the material you make with Hot Potatoes.
You do not make the material freely available through the WWW.

	You must register in order to use the software. Registration is FREE. Just go to their registration page and fill in the form. A registration key will be e-mailed to you immediately.
	After registering, click on the help menu after opening one of the Hot Potatoes applications. Chooser "Register" and fill in the registration key information exactly as it was in the e-mail received with this key.
	Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT 4.0 or above (A version of the suite is also available for the Macintosh.)
	A recent version of Netscape Navigator or MS Internet Explorer
	Access to a Web server (if you wish to deliver your exercises on the Internet)
	To use the exercises, your students will also need an appropriate browser. They do NOT need Hot Potatoes itself.
	If you know HTML and JavaScript, you will be able to exercise more control over the final format and style of your exercise pages, but this is not a requirement for creating useful interactive pages with Hot Potatoes.

	Create "Dollaraire" activities. Ideal for use in the one-computer classroom. "Dollaraire Rules" Example of "Dollaraire" activity
	Create activities using the varying Hot Potatoes formats as study guides for student use at home, in your computer lab, or at work stations in the classroom.
	Teach your students to create Hot Potatoes activities and then let them take each other's quizzes. (Recommend Grades 4 and above)
	Get together with teachers on your team and divide the content areas for creating activities. Post all of these activities for sharing with one another.