JCliC Overview, Open Source Educational Media for Students

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Introduction

In 1995, the Department of Education of the Government of Catalonia (Spain) built JCliC.JClic is an open source platform for the creation, playing and evaluation of multimedia educational activities that developed in the Java platform. It is a multi-platform, free software project, based on open standards. It can work in Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Solaris.

Development

The development of JCliC can be found at https://github.com/projectestac/jclic. The development is elaboration of documents, manuals and user guides, creation of visual environments (skins), design of graphic elements (buttons, icons, etc), development of new modules of JClic (new types of activities, content generators, report systems, etc), tracking of errors and source code maintenance and local diffusion and support groups.

Features

The features of JClic:

customizable graphic environments ("skins"), which contain the buttons and other graphic elements that frame the activities.
BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG graphics.
multimedia resources such as: WAV, MP3, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and Flash 2.0 format, among others, as well as animated GIFs and GIFs with transparency.
Sounds of events (to click, to relate, to complete, to guess, to fail...) configurable for every activity or project.
Shape generators that make it possible to give different geometric designs to the cells of the activities: with JClic they no longer need to be always rectangular.
characteristics of the activities: maximum time, maximum number of attempts, ordered resolution, memory activities with two blocks of content, etc.

Components

JClic player

In this component, we are allowed to play the activities from the local disk (or from the local network) without the necessity of being connected to the Internet.

JClic author

We can create, edit, and publish activities in JClic Authour

JClic reports

We can collect data and generates reports on the results of the activities that be done by the students.

Activities

There are many types of activities in this software. They are complex association, simple association,finding pairs, explore activity, indentify cells, information screen, double puzzle, exchange puzzle, hole puzzle, complete text, fill in the blanks, indentify elements, written answer, crosswords, wordsearch and etc.

Here is some activities that I made for my students.
Puzzle

Wordsearch

Fill in the blank (test)
fill in the blank.PNG

Conclusion

It can be concluded that JCliC is an open source educational media highly recommended in teaching students. Every teacher can use this software to create interesting activities that depend on the teacher's lesson. It will make easier for teachers. In addition, the students will be happy in the class.