Last week Dr. Evan Bibbee presented his way of working with wikies in a french as a foreign language class. It caught my attention that he has done this for three years now and that the project involved the cultural aspect of the language. He gave good tips on how to implement it and what he has learned by doing that project. I will definitely give it a try for my next Spanish class, one of the components of the course deals with culture, and a wiki will work great for online learners.
We also saw the so famous Hot Potatoes ... I had no idea it was that easy and most importantly free. I didn't get to actually do my own exercise due to time, but I can ambition this feature in the lessons' section in my web page. I bet with time I can turn old worksheets into catchy exercises using Hot Potatoes ... all I need is time and patience, sadly I have the latter but not the former.
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Time ... Do it one step at a time. Also, there may be a way to get students to do it as part of class ... maybe.
I like the idea of having students create the games and worksheets for the class. I know when I create these tools for my teaching, the material gets embeded in my brain--for better or worse--hopefully it would do the same for my students. And then they could share their games/quizes/puzzles with others.
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