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21 thoughts on “James On Textivate”
I just tried textivate this week and really enjoyed it. The biggest kick I got out of it was hearing my Latin 1 classes say the Latin words for me to fill in (without them really thinking about what they were saying)!
I joked around telling them that I had tricked them to speak the Latin, but of course we agreed that we were all impressed that the Latin was in them and then just started coming out. Cool way to hear some production in a completely safe setting.
I also gave the textivate assignment to a student I have on home teaching because they are not able to be at school for a couple months due to health reasons. I’m excited to see how it helps them out.
I normally project the text and do a couple of the activities with the whole group. In that setting, I like the second set (particularly the one with 3 sentences to choose as the next line) best. I have also used the fill in the missing letter writing exercises with the whole class. I love the enthusiasm that is often fostered there, and the opportunity to do grammar pop-ups and to work on spelling. However, I do think in that setting the stronger students tend to dominate. I hadn’t thought of having them write it down as an assignment. It’s not as fun or “techie” but you would get a stronger sense of what they know.
The more I think about it, the whole class activity could be seen as a form of differentiation, no? The stronger students are focusing on the writing aspect of it, while the weaker students are simply reading and hearing the words (the key there being that it is a comprehended text that they have already read).
I also have used the cloze activity (you can make up your own if you want to focus on any particular words). We either do this as a whole class, or we do it “knock-out” style which the kids like because they think it is a game. We go around the class and each student needs to fill in the next word or get eliminated (easier in small classes because there are more opportunities). I let kids get back in the game if they can identify a word that someone else has just missed on, to keep their focus on it.
Honestly when i have done this it has almost always been done in a very limited time, like 5-10 minutes after reading the story. I have seen it as a supplementary activity that is great if I have time, but not a huge loss if we can’t do it. Also, since I have access to a laptop cart, it can be a good sub-lesson.
To even the playing field you could use individual white boards and have all students turn the boards around at the same time. This would give some students more time to process.
I am looking for some feedback on the use of textivate.com. Today I did the 3 sentence, pick the one that comes next option. I just #’d the 3 lines and told the students to jot down on their paper the # of each line as we went through. As David stated above, it seems like the strong students dominated so I was wondering what other strategies people have used to make sure the slower processors have the time to read it and I can make sure they are on board.
Next we did the fill in the missing vowels option so we could work on accents in the past tense. I was wondering if just having them write out the paragraph on their own and do the best they can with spelling is a good idea. I was worried it may have been a big jump. When we went over it, of course the strong kids took over and gave me the impression that it was easy. It seemed valuable because the concept of verb endings changing meaning in Spanish is difficult for these kids because they have all been taught traditionally save the 2 kids I had in Spanish 1.
I’m probably in the minority but I find myself using textivate a lot to give help (scaffolding) on writing activities. For example, it’s a writing thing for students to unscramble a passage or to fill in the missing letters. Students can do these independently on their own paper so that the teacher can get an idea of where each individual is at.
Textivate is a welcome break for the kids. So is IM translator. These are two of the programs that I have worked in my Two Week Schedule. Another benefit of those two programs is that admins don’t think we are doing our jobs unless we are using some kind of technology, so the “uses technology” box gets checked when we use them.
I think Textivate started charging money around mid-year. Not sure about that bc I just stopped using it then. Maybe Martin could address that for us. If it does charge a fee, I would certainly recommend paying it, because our TPRS/CI based classes are just better when we use them, especially Textivate.
I deleted your post Martin because you are not a member of this group and we have reason to want privacy. Then you told me that you just walked right in and so it is I who should apologize and thank you for telling us that the watch dogs we thought were awake and guarding the gates have gone to sleep. I’ll look into that. Oh well.
Honestly, I am not too worried about a few people like Martin who wander in here too much anymore. The climate of fear that someone would attack us, which was very serious and ugly five years ago and caused us to go right into the private membership format, has given way, in these five years, to a climate of acceptance by most teachers that we have a very good thing going here. It’s almost as if they know that if anything needs to change, it’s them. But I will look into it with my web guy anyway.
In reference to the privacy issue – this is huge for me (especially in my current situation). I wouldn’t say half the things I do on here if I didn’t know that I can count on the “guarded gates”.
I am talking to the guards as we speak Brigitte. Thanks.
I tried to comment on this earlier (I think it was this post) but my comment has now disappeared…
I just wanted to say that you can now add videos, images and parallel texts to your textivate resources, so you can do things like create interactive dictée, movietalk, translation etc, with varying levels of support.
Here’s a link to a blog post with more info, examples etc: http://textivate.posthaven.com/adding-a-video-slash-image-slash-parallel-text-to-a-textivate-resource
Plus, with the new sequences feature, you can set these as homework for your students to do outside class time. (Info on “sequences”: http://textivate.posthaven.com/introducing-sequences-on-textivate )
What is the sign up fee for textivate? I always do the activities listed on the moretprs site and love them as a learner myself but I don’t know about membership. I would like to sometimes display it on the smartboard and I know that you can print out pages. This would be a great substitute activity with a known reading.
Melissa I don’t know if you read my comment above but Textivate is worth any amount of money per month. It takes countless hours of painstaking auditory input on our parts as teachers and makes it all visual with the little block games and stuff it offers. This shift to visual learning and application of all the auditory input into visual block games and such is really welcomed by the kids, as a few teachers have commented above. And as I said above when admins see that kind of tech activity going on in our classes, their perception of what we are doing skyrockets, and they get to feeling really good about us. I recommend Textivate to all of the people in this PLC. It will add much to your years next year. Maybe Martin can get us a discount.
I think I paid the dollar equivalent of 15 dollars, but it was in pounds. I found it worth it last year. I used it weekly or more in someway.
I liked Textivate. My kids liked Textivate.
I would do the Scrambled Sentences and the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-ish activity. The former I would give as an individual quiz with a class story at the end of a TPRS cycle. The latter we’d also play at the end of a TPRS cycle and I would split the class up in 2 groups and they’d compete to see who made it further and who completed it faster.
Stronger kids definitely dominate the whole-class activities.
I also wonder how much “reading comprehension” actually happens when either activity can be completed by looking at the last few words and the beginning of the next sentence. Often the answer is obvious, not requiring any attention to meaning, due to how the sentences get split up. I doubted there was as much comprehension happening in the scrambled sentences and the Millionaire activity let strong kids dominate, some zone out, and some kids would get out of control with their voice volume.
I stopped Textivate.
Same goes for IM Translator. I stopped. This gave my voice a break, but listening to a machine voice just ain’t even close to the real thing.
Both get an “okay” rating in my book in terms of CI instruction. Maybe better done as brain breaks and for limited time – 5 minutes.
I think that I am one of the “early adopters” of textivate, though I have not used it as much recently. I agree with the comment that the fast processors dominate the process if you do it as a whole group. I am lucky (cursed?) this year that all of my students have ipads. I like the textivate better as an individual activity because it allows the slower processor the time to think and consider. Thanks to the ipads I will be using it more. I also like to require some accountability, so I set up sequences for the students where they need to get 80% or whatever it is correct to move on or submit it. They have all the opportunities they want to get there, and there is no time pressure, so I like it.
In terms of putting the sentences together in order, or playing millionaire – if they need to achieve a certain goal (like you can set in the sequences) I think it requires comprehension, certainly not of all the text, but of the final sentences and of the choices. When I play it, I don’t read everything, but I need to comprehend parts of it quite well – and for me that’s ok. I definitely think it is something to be used after you have done choral reading or other textual activities. It is supplementary.
I realize that a lot of my students got bored with stories in the past, and while that is the backbone of what I do, I want to use things like textivate to provide the novelty that the brain desires while also offering CI. It actually works fabulous on tablets with the dragging and dropping.
Yeah, whole class is too chaotic, unless they can copy the answers (but even then I think they are just writing the answer or sentence and not making meaning unless they themselves gave the answer). I like printing out the exercises as a time eater for kids to work on.
James or anyone else using the sequences –
I am trying to decide if the cost of the premium membership is worth it when my basic membership runs out (double the price). I would like to try using the sequences, but since I don’t give homework, it would be maybe only every other week on the individual laptops. I wonder if it’s worth it. (I would like to have the added storage capacity, but $25 is a lot for me).
My other question is: Is there a technology learning curve for your students when logging in with the shared password, entering their name, completing the sequence and submitting? As much as mine use cell phones, many are not tech savy at all, and get easily frustrated when they don’t know where to click, or don’t want to use their brain power to attempt to figure it out.
I just got the school to pay for a premium subscription for me. I like the students being able to use their chromebooks/phones to complete some stuff without me really having to work. Does your school have a language club fund you could use to pay for it? I also like how you can print worksheets and I don’t know if you can do that with the “basic.” Normally I don’t go for technology, but I feel like textivate gives you something new, something that can’t be done without a computer.
Oh, and the tech isn’t that difficult. Just give them a few examples and be ready to spend a good amount of time on the first day explaining stuff.
The basic lets you print worksheets. But, I want to be “greener”, so I like the sequence and gradebook options.
Yeah, I can’t use Club money for this, and our department doesn’t receive a budget (unless it’s repairing textbooks haha).
How often do you use the sequence? After a story script, perhaps? Or, after the portion of an easy reader? How long would they spend on a sequence? One 40 minute period is what I am envisioning, if I wanted it to be that long.
Hi all,
I am working on Textivate, but it looks as though some of the features aren’t available for Russian. Can you read the note Martin wrote me and tell me whether it’s still worth it without those? I hope so!
Hi Michele,
You can use cyrillic for all of the sequencing activities, gap-fill, space, millionaire etc. But not for those requiring text entry such as fill in the letters, anagrams, invaders, snake.
On the vocab side, if you put the cyrillic on the left and english on the right, all of the activities will work. If you do it the other way round, you have similar limitations to those listed above.
Here is an example of a textivate text in Russian (by you it seems): http://www.textivate.com/menu-qbdjn1
You’ll note that the last 8 activities cannot be done because they require roman scriot characters.
A couple of examples of months in Russian:
English to Russian http://www.textivate.com/menu-i9pjn1 (the last 10 activities can’t be done)
Russian to English http://www.textivate.com/menu-j9pjn1 (here, all can be done, but those extra ones are about spelling words in English)
Would you like to proceed with the order?
Martin
Martin needs to give us a discount if we all decide to buy his $40 product.