Creating interactive exercises with JClic

JClic (http://clic.xtec.net/en) is a free (under a GPL license, more about this in Chapter 8) software application released by the Ministry of Education of the Government of Catalunya. It is written in Java, and allows us to create the following seven types of interactive activities:

• Association games - to identify the relationship between two groups of data

• Memory games - to discover hidden pairs of elements

• Exploring, Identifying, and Information games - to start with initial information and choose paths to the answer

• Puzzles - to order graphics, text, and audio, or to combine graphics and audio

• Written answers - to write text, a word, or a sentence

• Text activities - to solve exercises based on words, sentences, letters, and paragraphs (these can be completed, corrected, or ordered)

• Wordsearches and crosswords - to find hidden words or solve crossword puzzles

JClic exercises can be more visually appealing than Hot Potatoes, as we will see, and can...