You will need to download the prac2.zip file to do the guided practices for this module. Decompress its contents in the C:\Clic\Course\Module2\Practice folder.

In this exercise some materials are used from the "Enciclopedia multimedia de los seres vivos" CD-ROM published by "Editorial Planeta", which came free with the Sunday editions of the "La Vanguardia" newspaper in 1997.

Practice 1
Creating an explore mode activity

- Start up Clic and activate the File - New... - Association menu. The working directory will be the one corresponding to the guided practices in Module 2 (where you have just decompressed the ZIP file).

- Select explore mode in the area at the top of the edit window.

- We will use 4 animal photographs in this exercise. So you should set a layout of 2 rows and 2 columns.

- We will place the animal photographs in grid A. As they are in 4 separate files, we will have to do this with indirect calls from a text file. Select Text for the type, leave the entry NEW TEXT selected and click Edit contents.

- The programme will ask for a file name. Write PHOTOSAN and accept the operation.

- Write the following four lines in the Windows notepad:

{elephant.gif}
{leopard.gif}
{wolf.gif}
{dolphin.gif}

- Save the file and close the Windows notepad.

- We will also use a text file for grid B. Here we will write the names of the four animals. Leave the entry NEW TEXT selected and click on Edit contents. The file name will be NAMESANI.TXT (you only have to write NAMESANI), and the content will be the following:

Elephant
Leopard
Wolf
Dolphin

- Save the file and close the Windows notepad.

- There is no need to write a good bye message in explore mode activities. Write the following sentence in Welcome message:

Click on the photographs to know the names of these animals

- Confirm the creation of the activity by clicking OK.

- Save it as ANIMALS1.ASS.

It seems to work, but the photographs are cut off in the cells. Let's fix it:

- Edit the activity (CTRL+E keys) and change the placement of the grids to type A above B.

- Click on the Options button and change the dimensions of grid A so that they have a width of 220 and a height of 150 points. For grid B set the dimensions at 220 x 40.

- There is no need to solve anything in explore mode activities so unmark the Placed, Attempts and Time markers.

- Confirm everything and check the activity. It should now work much better!

The white background does not go very well with the photographs. We will make a few esthetical changes:

- Edit the activity again (CTRL+E) and click on the Fonts button.

- Mark the Messages box and click on the Apply to all areas button. This makes the grey background colour the same for the whole screen (we could have also changed it area by area but this way is quicker).

- Mark the Grid B box and select a font size of 12 x 30 and Bold style. Click on the Text button, select red and confirm.

- We are back in the edit activity window. unmark the boxes where it says Delimit cells for grid A and B.

- Click on the Options button and unmark the Shaded frames box.

- Confirm everything and test the activity again.

- Save it again with the same name: ANIMALS1.ASS