Emerging Technologies Week 9 (Micro Access and Hot Potatoes)

Emerging Technologies Week 9

For this week's assignment, we had to highlight two technologies that enhance assessment. My two technologies are Microsoft Access and Hot Potatoes.

Microsoft Access

Microsoft access is an information management tool. MA is used to help students store information for analysis, reporting, and citation. When compared to Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet applications, MA is the best for storing significant amounts of data and manage related data more effortlessly. Microsoft Access stores related information together and stores relevant information together, creating connections between different things (Southern Oregon University, 2009).

Hot Potatoes

Hot potato is not open-source. Hot potato has six applications where instructors can develop short answers, multiple-choice, crosswords, jumbled-sentence, matching/ordering, and gap-fill exercise for the internet. Hot Potatoes is free of charge that can be utilized for any project or purpose. To access Hot Potato, you can download the program online. Before instructors create an exercise on hot potato, they must first decide what they want their student to achieve (Sewell, Frith, & Colvin, 2010).

A rationale for why you chose each technology

I chose Microsoft Access because this is a tool that online educational students can benefit from accessing for reports, dissertations and end of the quarter assignments. MA allows students to store significant amounts of data, just this quarter alone I have over 100 peer journal reviewed articles  I utilized for the two classes. Therefore, the use of MA would have come in handy when looking for items that have connections (Southern Oregon University, 2009).

I chose Hot potatoes for this week’s technologies to enhance assessments because hot potatoes is a free download instructor do not have to pay to utilize. Hot Potatoes enables the instructor to make a short answer, multiple-choice, crosswords, jumbled-sentence, matching/ordering, and gap-fill to gauge students on educational content (Sewell, Frith, & Colvin, 2010).

Two examples of how you might incorporate each technology into your professional practice.

To integrate Microsoft Access into the classroom, I will create a Microsoft Access class database that allows students a bi-weekly and monthly reports. The second way I will use MA is to build a class calendar to keep up with upcoming assignments and school breaks (Southern Oregon University, 2009). To integrate hot potato into the classroom, I will use multiple-choice and short answer test to enhance the assessments and test students to ensure they are grasping the concepts of the class content (Sewell, Frith, & Colvin, 2010).

References

Sewell, J. P., Frith, K. H., & Colvin, M. M. (2010). Online Assessment Strategies: A Primer. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 6(1), 2010.

Southern Oregon University. (2009). Best practice in online course design and delivery. Ashland, OR: The SOU Distance Education Center.