ICT's Blog by Alicia Zurdo

For the group assignment in this class, we had create an interactive exercise with Live Worksheets, which is an interactive tool where teachers and other educators can create different worksheets regarding a topic of their choice. The goal is to upload the worksheet created to live worksheets and then be able to put the correct answers and create different types of exercises. Educators are also able to share the worksheets they have created with the rest of the users in order to help or inspire other indivdiuals for their own worksheets. We did a fill in the blanks activity and another activity about ordering names and images. Finally, once they have filled out all of the exercises and check their answers a grade will appear at the top as we can observe below: For the individual assignment, I have decided to talk about Ardora ( http://webardora.net/index_cas.htm ), a computer application for teachers, which allows them to create their own web content, in a very simple way. I found this...

On today's lesson we started working with JClic. JClic, a very useful app and in this class we used it for creating activities for children. It has three applications: JClic Author, which is the one specific for designing activities and the one we had to use, JClic Player, for students to open and do the activities and finally, JClic Reports, which is used for grading the activities. In order to use JClic Author, we had to search for it in MyApps. We also had to create a new folder for saving these activities in "My Documents: R". To start the activity on JClic Author, we had to open the application and create a new project. After that, we had to start using the different tools to create different exercises. Exercise 1: Information screen With this tool, you create an introductory screen to let people to know what the activity is about or any information you would like to add. You can edit the page with different colors, change the size of the boxes, and add different mes...