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Both of the sites have a link section with external links, i.e. links which refer to other sites,
such as Norwegian newspapers on-line (such as www.aftenposten.no, www.dagbladet.no,
www.vg.no and others), on-line dictionaries of Norwegian language (such as
Bokmålsordboka, Nynorskordboka, Lexin and Clue Look-up), various sites, which provide
information about Norway (such as the free lexicon Caplex.no and the free encyclopaedia
Wikipedia, and many others).
The URLs for the two sites administrated by Ugnius Mikucionis, are:
Vilnius University: http://www.flf.vu.lt/skfk/en/
Vytautas Magnus University: http://norvegu.ten.lt
Who Likes Hot Potatoes?
When you hear a stranger talking a foreign language, you may seem he has a hot potato in his
mouth. At least, until you have learned that language to a certain extent – then it does no
longer sound that strange to you… Maybe this is the reason why Half-Baked Software Inc.
chose to name their software “Hot Potatoes”.
“Hot Potatoes” is a suite of five applications, which are design to generate HTML-code for
creating of different types of JavaScript-based on-line exercises.
The individual applications are called JCloze, JMatch, JQuiz, JCross and Jmix.
The exercise types one can create by means of these applications are the following:
• quizzes / multiple choice / short answers exercises;
• gap-fill exercises (with or without dropdown variants of possible answers);
• jumbled words / jumbled sentences exercises;
• ordering / matching exercises.
Descriptions of each type of exercises and tutorials how to create own exercises are to be
found at Hot Potatoes Home Page (http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/).
We at Vilnius University have begun creating exercises which will be used in connection with
some popular text books, for example, “Norsk for utlendinger” and “Norsk på en-to-tre” (as to
“På vei”, it is accompanied by a floppy disc with exercises, so there is no special need to
create new exercises to that textbook).
Some examples of the exercises we have prepared can already be found at
http://norvegu.ten.lt.
Gradually, there will be made many more exercises; our plan is to prepare five-six exercises
for each chapter in the two textbooks, “Norsk for utlendinger” and “Norsk på en-to-tre”. The
students of the Norwegian language both at Vilnius University and at Vytautas Magnus
University in Kaunas have access to internet at the universities; the costs of internet for homeusers
have also decreased dramatically, thus enabling the most of the students to make use of
the advantages of the internet. Therefore it has become natural to ask the students to use some
of their time solving the on-line exercises.
The most important benefit is simply that the students enjoy this. They treat such exercises as
a kind of computer-games, and like spending time solving them.
Needless to say, such exercises will never replace group-work, oral pair-exercises, learning by
heart and, above of all, talking and practising the spoken language.
Fredrikke nr. 11, 2005
Organ for FoU-publikasjoner – Høgskolen i Nesna