Monday, October 22, 2012

"I'm hating it"


I won't deny I used the ungrammatical "I'm hating it" phrase on purpose. I wanted to draw a comparision between McDonald's commercial and my experience as regards HotPotatoes. 
The first aspect I found annoying was that it lacks practicality. First of all, you need to download the application. Then you can start producing, for instance, a quiz. Its format is not clear and you won't get to see the final product until you publish it. In addition, I was hard to find the button where you change the colour of the quiz. It does not allow you to personalise it much. As you have to pay "fairly cheap" according to the producers, if you want to publish your work, you need to create a demo account. 
When you see what you have done, you cannot but feel depressed. 
Either I was bad at using it or the tool's aim is to make users' lives miserable. I hope it is the first alternative.

This is link to the quiz I created using Hot Potatoes. It serves the purpose of giving a context to the isolated sentences the book provides in the listening task. 

3 comments:

  1. While I was trying Hot Potatoes, "hate" was just ONE of the many non-academic sentences, utterances, clauses, interjections and other structures I produced.
    I'm totally with you on this one!

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  2. Thanks Santi! I have a positive comment to add: after writing that "catarsis", I felt much better and I don't hate the poor thing any more. :)

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