This presentation is about how the sofware will help to the students make the lessons in class more interesting.

1. Educ@ted The network of knowledge of Costa Rica Silvia Buján. Miriam Campos. Carolina Chacón. Leonie Krug. Natalia Jimenez. Luz Mary Otarola. Melissa Viquéz.

2. About us Educ @ Tico is the educational portal of the Ministry of Education of Costa Rica, which aims at implementing educational activities to promote learning and facilitate access to new learning tools through the use of information technologies and communication.

3. JClicSofware MULTIMEDIA ACTIVITIES.WhatisJClic?ItIs formed by a set of computer applications that are used for carrying out different types of educational activities: puzzles, associations, text exercises, crosswords...The activities are not usually used alone, but packed in projects. A project is formed by a set of activities and one or more sequences, which indicate the order in which they have to be shown. JClic is developed in the Java platform, is a free software project and works in different environments and operating systems.

4. Ways of accessing the projects JClic Playing the activities in an applet An applet is an object embedded in a web page. The projects that are seen this way do not remain stored in the hard disk: JClic downloads it, uses it and finally deletes it.If the JClic applet does not start, probably your computer's Java needs to be updated. It's also advisable to take a look at a page on the process of applet downloading. Installing the activities JClic has a wizard which allows you to download the activities and put them in the projects library of the computer. The library is created the first time JClic is started, or when you try to do the first installation of a project.To see the projects in the library you will need to download and install JClic.As in the previous case, if the installer does not start automatically you must check the Java system of your computer.

5. Community Is a section when have placed some communication and participation services, which we expect to increase in the future with new tool.

6. Features Mailing lists : it contains ClicNews and Clicforoum. Other list more technical Jclic development development project Mailbox :The most direct way to get in touch with the Clic team is by e-mail.

7. http://clic.xtec.cat/es/jclic/

8. Jclic is a set of open code applications in the Java platform. These characteristics make it secure and stable. It’s designed to help teachers to prepare different educational activities like puzzles, associations, text based exercises and crosswords. These activities can be saved and ordered in the project library.

10. Moreover, Jclic can be installed in different operational systems like Windows, Linux and Solaris. One of the most important characteristics is that this application can be used online, allowing the interaction of students via the internet and cooperative learning.

11. Components JClicapplet An "applet" that allows to incrust the Jclic activities in a web page. JClicplayer An independent program that once installed allows you to realize the activities from the hardware of the computer without having to be connected to the web. JClicauthor This author tool permits to create, edit and publish the activities in an easier, visual and intuitive way. JClicreports A data module to collect and generate reports of the participants’ results.

12. Jclic is free. Don’t lose time with «free trials». It is very light, so any computer can run the application without any mayor difficulties. This application is very user friendly. It is 100% compatible with his ancestor clic 3.0. Its graphical environment can be changed according to the users’ preferences.

13. Graphical environments, «skin», BMP, GIF, JPG y PNG. WAV, MP3, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime y Flash 2.0, amongst others, as well as animated GIFs. Sound effects for the different activities. Shapers, visual improvements. New characteristics like maximum time, maximum attempts, order resolution, memory activities with two blocks of content, etc.

14. In conclusion, this application was designed thinking about the final user and the capacity of performance.This gives it advantage over other similar programs.

15. Advantages Allow the use of JClic applications online. Make possible the use of JClic in different platforms and operating systems, like Windows, Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X. Facilitates professors work. Helps students to practice by themselves It has forum Can be used at school and make class interesting. It is free

16. To extend the area of cooperation and exchange of materials among schools and educators of different countries and cultures, facilitating the translation and adaptation of the programmed as well as of the created activities.

17. Disadvantages JAVA. Slow installation. System of evaluation Multimedia. Without Java activities must be download every time you want to use them. Languages. Difficult access

18. Conclusion

19. For more information visit the websites: http://clic.xtec.cat/en/jclic/index.htm http://www.educatico.ed.cr/Software/Forms/AllItems.aspx

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