We've completely revamped the menu screen (above).
This new version makes it much easier to read the text / matching items on the menu screen.
It also has words on the menu, rather than images intended to represent each activity.
And many activities that are essentially the same, such as all the tile activities, are now accessed in submenus.
Here's what it used to look like (if you've never used textivate, or if you've forgotten already...):
Here is a link to the menu as shown in the first image above. Have a play with it: http://www.textivate.com/menu-7rfjn1?colscheme=blue
We hope you like the change.
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We've made an improvement to the "Space" activity (Separate the words), so that if your text has more than 20 words in it, you can now decide on the number of words to be joined up.
Your options are: All words; 1/2 words; 1/3 words; 1/4 words; 1/5 words
Why do this? Well, for a couple of reasons...
Jumbled Words splits the text using full stops and line breaks. (Short sentences of fewer than 3 words are combined, and long sentences are split using other punctuation, where possible.)
Students complete the activity by putting the words of each section of the text into the correct order.
See the embedded example below (the same resource as in the image above):
We've made a further 7 activities available to those making activities with character languages or languages which do not use roman-script...
You'll see that in the bottom left of the above screen image there are two option buttons: "Words" or "Sentences"
"Words" means that the text is divided in roughly equal-sized chunks based on the number of words. This has been the default setting until now, and it tends to create activities where:
We've made a small change to the way that you navigate between some of the activities on textivate.
The +tiles and -tiles buttons have gone and have been replaced by a drop-down box (see the image below).
This makes it easier to navigate directly to the number of tiles that you want to see in your activity.
These changes have been made to the following screens on the text side:
Tiles (all), Horizontal, Paragraphs, Next Word, 50:50, Initials, Empty, Anagrams
...and the following screens on the Match side:
Shuffle Match, Switch Match, Click Match (all), Memory (all)
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We've added 5 tabs to textivate, as shown above.
The idea behind this is to make it simpler, so that users no longer need to type all of their bizarrely formatted text into a single text box, taking care to put everything in the correct order. You can now add your data via the first 4 tabs -- Text, Match, Extras, Sequence -- and textivate automatically combines it into the "Show all" tab.
The "Show all" tab is the equivalent of the old-style textivate textbox. It is also the default open tab when you land on the index page.
Let's run through the 5 tabs in the order in which they appear, left to right:
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!
The Gap-fill (random) and the Gap-fill (user-defined) activities have changed in the following ways: