Impressions of Raptivity

Hi Everyone,
I hope you all enjoyed the July 4th holiday! I really liked exploring Raptivity and think it has great potential to enhance the interactivity and reinforcement activities for online courses. I created an interaction for my graduate Educational Research course to reinforce their understanding of the characteristics of quantitative and qualitative research. I used the Classification Exercise with Timed Options interaction for this activity. While I liked the numerous choices available in Raptivity, I found the limitations on character length and the navigation options to be limiting. For example, I wanted students to be able to re-stat the activity, but didn't see a way to offer a link to re-start the game once it ended.

Again, I like all the options for interactions, but for free, HotPotato does at least 4 of these basic designs. I agree, I would have a hard time justifying this $1000 expense to my department chair. But I really appreciate the opportunity to test out this software and learn more about the types of interactivities that are available.

My interaction is available at:
http://www.funkphd.net/7741/characteristics_raptivity.int/Publish/JavaScript_Publish/characteristics_raptivity.int.swf
I need to play around with better file names in my URL, but I was afraid to mess with any of the stored file within the raptivity generated folder :-).
Have a great week!
Leigh