Using Hot Potatoes as Peer Assessment in a Moodle Workshop
Just a different take on using Hot Potatoes in Moodle: why not get them to do the work - then mark each others’ efforts - while you leave them to it? Read the blog here or listen to the podcast below
January 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
This is a very good idea. I thought of something similar earlier last term: to get my Spanish pupils to create their own tests and end of unit activities using hotpotatoes, like you say, so they could test each other, thus adding an element of competition. Unfortunately my Director of ICT will not entertain the idea of installing hotpotatoes on all the students’ machines, …or moodle, …or allow access to sites with video content, …or access to sites with mp3 content, …or virtually any other activity that might prove too much fun.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I understand the reticence as far as mp3s and videos goes but surely hotpotatoes which is entirely educational should not cause any issues? And as all schools are meant to have some sort of VLE in place this year - is your Director of ICT not looking to organise something? It would be a smart move to find out what he/she has in mind and get in there from the start - then you can influence the choice!
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 am
Thanks for sharing - we have a monolithic vle and this poses an even worse barrier to innovation than not having one at all! I came across your post while looking for a way to automate a peer marking process - perhaps moodle workshops might do for this… still looking…