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At present, most teachers wince at the very mention of virtual learning
platforms. Most VLPs are a horrific combination of required - the government has
declared that all schools must have one - and useless. Unconnected and
underdeveloped, many VLPs are devoid of content: empty cathedrals, monuments to
technological failure.
"The students we teach come from a media age; they are visually bombarded from
every angle. As teachers we have to compete against their entertainment. A
worksheet is not enough to engage them any more."
Fears have been expressed that the bank will encourage teachers to skimp on
planning, encouraging them to copy and paste material at the last minute like
their more irresponsible students.
A star rating like that used by eBay will allow teachers to rank resources they
have tried and approved, encouraging - as Iglesias puts it - "the cream to rise
to the top".
Because the project is entirely open source, downloaded resources can be adapted
and changed without fear of breaching copyright laws.
Developed with EU funding and pioneered in Spain, the bank's source code is free
for other countries to use and copy.
To maintain quality assurance, all of the bank's resources will be vetted by
local authorities and/or the national learning grid.
In the next academic year, all schools will have access
to a new National Digital Resource Bank.
The idea is to pull together all the resources created by teachers, schools and
public funding into one central location.
"We should be promoting tools rather than content," says Jenkins. "Students
should be encouraged to be critical by remixing, commenting on and sharing the
resources they are given. They should be creating their own content.
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 those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website.
Site oficial do HotPotatoes. Transformações de licenciamento e e descontinuidade do projecto provocaram perda de qualidade em comparação com outras soluções.