Hot Potatoes

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

The Hot Potatoes website best describes this application as a "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 freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like" (Hot Potatoes 2014).  This could greatly increase the motivation of students to complete their homework and would make studying for a quiz or exam more fun and interactive. By incorporating learning into an exciting game or crossword, many students could benefit by learning without the feeling of it taking extra effort. This could be useful for students with mild to moderate reading difficulties, those who lack motivation, or those who are absent from class as they can still do the activities online. This is a free web tool available to everyone that must be downloaded and installed from the website.

References

Hot Potatoes. Version 6. March 3 2014. Retrived from

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/