IT for Education

The first week of ICT on my PGCE course has now happened. We kicked off with a look at a few utilities that might be useful as teaching aids. Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Hot Potatoes is a suite of educational tools that let you generate web-based crosswords, word searches, quizzes and so forth. Judging from some of the feedback from the web it's quite highly regarded by teachers. It seems to be abandonware since 2009 though, so the UI feels very dated and the whole package is lacking in modern refinements we've rapidly come to expect. Still, there doesn't appear to be anything else available that could be a suitable replacement. Would I use it? Probably not. Undergraduate-age students are at that point where they've discovered their independence so solving a word maze might be seen as beneath them. Ironically, once you get to post-graduate ages you're more likely to find use for the tools as mature students have that bit more maturity so as not to sco...