I thought it would be a nice idea to try adding a word cloud, such as the one above, as an image to accompany a textivate resource.
I added it using the procedure outlined in this post, by simply adding the url of the image to the "image" section of the parallel text box on the textivate edit screen.
The result is the screen below.
Most textivate users will be aware that you can share links to textivate (shareable & public) resources in a number of ways, as explained on this post:
In a recent post, I explained how it was possible to add your own incorrect answers for use in the multi-match activities in textivate.
Here is that blog post, in case you missed it.
This essentially means that you can create multiple-choice quizzes or tests. You can even specify whether the questions should be presented in sequence or in random order.
Here's an example. (I've protected the resource, so you can't get back to the original to get the answers):
Previously, worksheet printing in IE didn't really work on textivate.
It's fixed now :0)
You now get the activity opening in a new screen, with a print button.
You can click the print button to print the content, OR right-click the page and choose "Print preview" if you want to change the margins, zoom etc and remove dates, headers, footers etc.
It works great on the versions of IE that I've tried it on.
The print preview feature with the zoom etc means you can get much more precise worksheets than you can even with Google Chrome!
We've added a "palette" icon to the home page and menu screens on textivate. It looks like this:
If you click on it (on textivate, not here) it will change the colour scheme, background colours etc.
You can also specify a colour in your resource links / embed codes etc.
We'll add more colours later.
See the examples below. Open each activity to see the different colours.
It's a sequence of 4 activities, each one taken from a separate textivate resource.
The 4 parts make up the complete story:
This post explores a new feature in textivate sequences. (Don't know what a sequence is? Look here for starters.)
>> TRY THIS SEQUENCE <<
The above sequence (in French) is based on 9 separate resources, each one dealing with a different section of the same story. (It's a description of the action from a Simon's Cat video called Fly Guy -- the sequence is actually made up of all of the activities featured on this blog post.)
If you try out the sequence, you'll see that as you complete one activity and click on the "Next" button, you are taken to a different activity based on the next piece of text -- each piece of text is actually a separate textivate file.
So how is this done?
Well, the easiest way is to open textivate in 2 separate browser tabs: one with an empty text box so that you can create your sequence and one that you use to open resources and get the urls.
Start by typing the following into your empty "Show all" text box:
If you make a user-defined gap-fill on textivate (as explained here and here) you can now add "RED HERRING" words to the word list.
These are words that cannot fit into any of the gaps that you have selected and they make the exercise more challenging for the student.
To add red herrings, first create your user-defined gap-fill by clicking on the "User-defined gapfill" button on the textivate home page:
With the user-defined gap-fill edit screen open, scroll down to beneath the box containing your text and you should see a section like this:
You can add extra words (or groups of words) into this box, separating your red herrings with semi-colons, like this:
If you make a user-defined gap-fill on textivate (as explained here and here) you can now add clues or prompts for some or all of your gaps.
To do this, first create your user-defined gap-fill by clicking on the button on the textivate home page:
Then close the user-defined gap-fill edit box. This adds [#] in front of the words (or groups of words) that you have selected as gaps.
Then type your clue or prompt after the # on the textivate edit screen (in the "Text" box or the "Show all" box), like this:
[#your clue here]the_gapped_word
You might end up with a text that looks something like this: