Hotpot + Scorm 2.1 --> Blackboard

One of the interesting steps in the well-known exercise software Hot Potatoes is the integration of the exercises in a learning environment (Blackboard - EloV) in our case.
What's this all about? For years teachers and educators have been using Hot Potatoes to develop interactive online exercises, but to me the feedback/evaluation was always a weak point. Students could do the exercises and read the feedback linked to correct or wrong answers. But in the end they just got a percentage, so that the feedback for the teacher was very poor. Teachers need to study the results, need to see whether the student made a typing mistake or a fundamental mistake, so that remediation is possible. That was difficult with Hot Potatoes... I preferred the exercise module of the Blackboard learning environment, since there it is possible to check the real answer of the student and adjust the marks if necessary.
Thanks to the SCORM norm it is possible to develop exercises and content in third party programs and import them into the learning environment.
Now Hot Potatoes has taken that step (in Beta). From any exercise module it is now possible to export the exercise to a zipped scorm file, which you can then import into Blackboard.
In a first, brief test this morning three out of four exercises seemed to work after importation. During the next few days, I will be testing all the possibilities.

Vietnam project: Day 2 Warming up...

Yes, even in these tropical temperatures warming up is essential! ;-)
But first things first! Breakfast at the Majestic on the panoramic 5th floor is a great way to start the day, even at 6 in the morning!
The Grand Buffet is so impressive that I even think of getting up even earlier!!!

Here the panoramic view! Yes, it looks like a picture from before the war (world war 2, I mean... I had told myself... don't mention the war!!!), but it was taken this morning. You see the ferry boats cross the Saigon river...

Here I am being introduced by Mr. Thach, head of the institute. He expresses his gratefulness to the organisers of the workshop...

Intro by Jef on "Active Teaching and Learning" + Presentation of 5 lesson plans by the local teachers. The idea was to have them prepare a lesson plan involving some use of ICT before the start of the workshop. Then during the last day of the workshop, they can take the same lesson plans (themes) and implement the new techniques.

The teachers were introduced to the learning environment Blackboard, hosted by the EloV project in Flanders. I'd like to dedicate these pictures to Karel Van Rompaey and Mia Quartier, the real parents of the EloV project of which they have been bereaved! Many years of good work were not rewarded and wrongly taken away from you. Once more I express my gratitude of having been able to work with you, guys! I hope that the coming year will bring you prosperity and joy.
Here the local teachers are experiencing the use of the discussion board to build a tree story. They also used it as a brainstorm instrument on the theme: the future.

The next part was on the cyberpoetry site Poëzome. I presented this older site, although it is in Dutch because it was made by students, for students, because it is an interesting way of showing that language, poetry in particular and IT can go together, more even, that IT can create new forms of language-experience, poetry-experience, and finally because it is a good introduction to the possiblities of webquests... I browsed through poëzome, translating, explaining,...

And the workshoppers looked...

...and listened...

In the evening, I prepared for the next day...

... ate my evening chocolate, waiting for me on the sheets, and read the bedtime story: a tale on Trang Quynh, a half real, half mythical character of Vietnamese popular literature, loved particularly by the working class people.