Hot Potatoes and Comics for Teaching Reading

Hot potatoes and comics are the example of media that is used to teach reading skill using technology.

For hot potatoes, it is usually used for the reading tasks. Why using hot potatoes? Of course it is because teaching using technology nowadays is more interesting than just doing some activities in the class.

To make reading activity using hot potatoes, first, you must download the HOT POTATOES software (click this link to download it), and then you can make reading activity using it.

For comics, it is usually used to make the reading materials are more interesting and unique for students. For creating comics, you can choose one of these tools:

·         Toondoo

·         Chogger

·         Pixton

How to use these tools?

You can click one of the tools above and then sign up for free. After that, just follow the instruction how to create your comics.

My project in this session (session 8) is about making hot potatoes and comics for teaching reading skill, this is group work, and the members are the same as the project in session 5 about making mind mapping.

So, here are the result of our projects in making close reading activity using hot potatoes and making comics.

Here the result of Cloze reading activity using hot potatoes

And here the result of comic