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Those familiar with textivate's more advanced features will be aware that you can set up image-based matching activities which match images with text items. They will also be aware that the images have to be hosted elsewhere (i.e. there's no facility to upload them to textivate...)

Until recently, our blog post / user-guide on adding images only listed 2 options for image hosting: IMGUR and DropBox.

Google Drive was never listed as an option because the share link that you typically get for files hosted on Google Drive is a link to a page containing the file rather than to the file itself. But I recently discovered (thanks to Dwight Hensler, of Haven of Peace Academy, Tanzania) that there is a way of getting a direct file link. Here's how...

1. Right-click the image in Google Drive and click on "Get link" (see below)

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This feature has been available for quite some time, but I haven't blogged about it, so here goes:

Textivate allows you to make interactive matching activities (and worksheets) matching images with text.

Here's how it's done:

Click on the "Match" tab. 

Then add your image-to-text matching data in the following format:

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A resource blog-post, for a change...

The images in this textivate resource are direct links to images on the openclipart website, https://openclipart.org/

The 26 activities below are in the same order and format as many of the image+text matching resources on the KS3 French section of textivate plus (for textivate subscribers) at https://www.textivate.com/plus/French/KS3_General_

NB: Scroll down to below the interactive activities for some pdf worksheets based on this resource.

The embedded resources below can be accessed by anyone (with or without a subscription):

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You may or may not be aware that it IS possible to create Match resources on textivate matching images with text. This blog post tells you all about it.

Well, with text-to-speech, it's now possible to add a voice to those images too. Here's how:

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This is another Match Jumble activity, as introduced on this recent blog post.

Here is the activity, embedded. (Click to load the exercise):

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