On the home / edit page. Click this icon to clear the contents of all of the tabs on the home page before embarking on a new resource.
On the home / edit page. Once you have created your resource and are ready to upload it to the textivate server, click this icon to add the name of your resource, extra information, tags etc and upload it. You need to have a full (teacher) log-in in order to upload resources.
Have you tried a team challenge on textivate?
You can do this during class time or between classes, or from one week to the next. (Just make sure to set an appropriate end time for the challenge.)
A simple team game, played ideally with a fairly short text.
In the example here (see image above and live example below) I have chosen to affect 1 in 3 spaces in the text (i.e. 2 in 3 spaces between words are already present) and students have 48 more spaces to find.
Divide the class into 2 teams and select a member from each team in turn to play.
The rules:
Bill Van Patten recently shared a link on the Tea With BVP website to a google doc (see below) on the topic of discourse scrambles.
Discourse scrambles are activities where you take a list of sentences or dialogue utterances, and students are required to put them into the correct order. According to Van Patten, "the language overall should be comprehensible in its original form, otherwise students cannot complete the task".
Van Patten goes on to explain the benefits of discourse scrambles:
When you create a "matching" resource on textivate, it really does make a difference which side you put the target language...
TL = Target Language (the language being taught)
L1 = First language / mother tongue / the language of instruction.
Consider the activities generated by textivate when you create a resource based on 12 or more matching items (see image above). There are 32 (at the time of this blog post).
Let's go through them...
A resource blog based on a text suitable for AS French, I think. The text is about Tesco's decision to stop selling crescent-shaped croissants...
Textivate can do a lot.
It can make activities based on a text, on matching items, or both; sequences and challenges; resources with additional parallel text, an image, audio or video... and all of this based on user input.
All of this user input is introduced into textivate using the "tabbed" front page:
Speed Read is a great way of helping students to memorize a text, and of getting them reading and understanding quickly and accurately.
We've added the option to flip the flashcards so that the right-hand part of the match is shown first, by selecting the "Switch top & bottom" checkbox.
We've also made the choice of "Original order" vs "Random order" selectable via option boxes.
Both of these can now be included in your fine-tuned urls for links and embedded exercises, and also in a sequence of activities.
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