Textease Resources and Downloads

There are thousands of FREE resources available to help you get going with your Textease tools.

Listed below are a variety of Getting Started Guides, Video Demos, Top Tips, Step Throughs and much more for each of the tools in the collection.

STUDIO CT  |  PUBLISHER CT  |  DRAW CT  |  SPREADSHEET CT  |  MOVIES CT  |  DATABASE CT PAINT CT  |  PRESENTER CT  |  TURTLE CT  |  BRANCH CT  |  TIMELINE  |  IDEASMAP  |  @HOME STUDIO PLUS

Downloads

• Textease Studio CT (Version 6.5)
• Textease Publisher/Spreadsheet CT  (Apple Mac)
• Textease Studio CT @Home (Version 6.5)
• Primary National Strategy Examples
• Scottish Numeracy Resources - Curriculum for Excellence
• Textease Viewer

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Studio CT Installation Instructions
• Textease Studio CT Getting Going Guide

Top Tips

• Textease Studio CT Top Tips

Clipart

• Animals clipart pack
• Backgrounds clipart pack
• Body parts clipart pack
• Borders clipart pack
• Buildings clipart pack
• Buttons clipart pack
• Fantasy clipart pack
• Farm clipart pack
• Flow chart clipart pack
• Food clipart pack
• Garden clipart pack
• History clipart pack
• Household clipart pack
• International clipart pack
• Logic gates clipart pack
• Maps clipart pack
• Music clipart pack
• Notes and coins clipart pack
• People clipart pack
• Religion clipart pack
• School clipart pack
• Science clipart pack
• Shapes clipart pack
• Space clipart pack
• Special occasions clipart pack
• Sport clipart pack
• Textures clipart pack
• Toys clipart pack
• Vehicles clipart pack
• Weather clipart pack

Espresso

• Espresso video 1. Combine text, graphics and sound to create your own
• Espresso video 2. Add hyperlinks to other pages and selected websites
• Espresso video 3. Create and annotate your own video presentation
• Espresso video 4. Create your own key questions and branching database
• Espresso video 5. Create a talking newspaper using ready-made templates in Textease CT
• Espresso video 6. Create a video storyboard to support narrative development

Case Studies

• Decoy case study
• Derbyshire case study
• Dr Thomlinson case study
• Dumfries case study
• Fens Primary case study
• Five Lanes case study
• Hallam Fields case study
• Highfield case study
• Imperial War museum case study
• ICT in ITT case study
• Jessie Younghusband case study
• Manchester case study
• Pembridge Hall case study
• South Wootton case study
• Stretton Handley case study
• Thames Primary case study
• Penclawdd case study
• Would you like to see your school as a case study on our Softease website?

Other

• Textease Studio CT Additional Information V 6.007 (May 06)
• Textease Studio CT Additional Information V6.0036.006 (Dec 05)
• Using Textease to Promote Inclusion and Accessibility
• QCA scheme of work for ICT
• Why upgrade to Textease Studio CT

Video Demos

• Textease Publisher CT (Multimedia capabilities) Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Publisher CT guide

Step Throughs

• Animation in Textease - Orbit
• Animation in Textease CT 1
• Animation in Textease CT 2
• Journey to school
• Kinetic Calligrams
• Multi-modal Nursery Rhymes: Humpty Dumpty

Top Tips

• Adding words to the dictionary 
• Associating a sound with a picture
• Changing the word bank saving location
• Creating a link to a website
• Creating a link to another document
• Creating a simple animation
• Customising the resource bank 
• Grouping objects
• Hidereveal and creating links
• Hideshow on click 
• How to tile a background 
• Locking items to the page to make templates
• Moving the toolbar  
• Recording a sound 
• Setting images as copies
• Setting the font for the page 
• Switching the spell checker onoff  
• Using the layout tool

Examples

• Pictogram example
• Coordinates example
• DT evaluation example
• Fantasy creature example
• Farmyard fowl run example
• Heating water example
• Izzy mega puzzle example
• Snake example
• Unit 1B Using a word bank - Maths

Video Demos

• Textease Draw CT (Angles) Video Demo
• Textease Draw CT (Design a classroom) Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Draw CT guide

Step Throughs

• Building a Pictogram
• Designing a Classroom (QCA ICT 5A)
• Working with shapes

Top Tips

• Changing the grid background
• Editing a polygon
• Measuring reflex angles
• Using the angle measuring tool
• Using the calliper tool

Examples

• Shared area designs example
• Draw a 7 piece tangram

Video Demos

• Textease Spreadsheet CT Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Spreadsheet CT guide

Step Throughs

• Building a 'Tables Tester'
• From data collection to data representation

Top Tips

• Moving or resizing a table
• Replicating a formula
• Selecting more than one column
• Using percentages in spreadsheets
• Using pre-written formulae 
• Using the formula builder 
• What lists does your spreadsheet know?  

Examples

• Spreadsheet example

Video Demos

• Textease Movies CT Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Movies CT guide

Step Throughs

• Working with Textease Movies CT

Top Tips

• Adding directly to the timeline
• Adding videos and pictures
• Exporting a Movie
• Stop frame animation

Examples

• Head and shoulders example

Video Demos

• Textease Database CT Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Database CT guide

Top Tips

• Converting Database files from V5 to V6
• Creating colour and picture fields
• Customising a page

Video Demos

• Textease Paint CT Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Paint CT guide

Step Throughs

• Working in Textease Paint CT

Top Tips

• Convert to jpeg (why you would want to)
• Creating a repeating tile on a canvas
• Picking a specific colour from an image
• Selecting and mixing paint colours
• Selecting and mixing paint colours
• Specifying a canvas size
• Using Darken, lighten and emboss
• Using Flip X and Y
• Using the area selection tool to create a stamp
• Using the cloning tool for translation of images
• Using the colour picker
• Using the red eye reduction feature
• Using the region selection tool to create your own stamp
• Using the region selection tool to create your own stamp
• Using the 'Snap to grid' function
• Using undo and redo to see effects of patterns
• Working with Photographs

Examples

• Indian carpet designs example
• Flowers by age example
• Stacey's paint example
• Marilyn Monroe example

Video Demos

• Textease Presenter CT Video Demo
• Textease Presenter CT (Instant slide show) Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Presenter CT guide

Step Throughs

• Literacy - Year 5 Unit 5 Film Narrative

Top Tips

• Dealing with bullet settings
• Selecting a backdrop
• Sound throughout the presentation
• Using fades
• Using photos as backgrounds

Examples

• My local area example

Video Demos

• Textease Turtle CT Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Turtle CT guide
• Turtle Commands guide

Step Throughs

• Rotating the Earth
• Using a repeat procedure to create a flower

Top Tips

• Creating a fence on the page to restrict the boundaries of a turtle
• Make a turtle  
• Pen upPen down
• Removing the turtle's direction
• Setting the home position
• Using the command line 
• Writing a procedure on a Textease page 

Examples

• Examples - Unit 4E

Video Demos

• Textease Branch CT Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Branch CT guide

Top Tips

• Adding a question to a completed tree  
• Adding a question to an already open tree
• Adjusting the tree to fit the page
• Changing the look of your tree
• Import sound and video into a branching database
• Personalising your tree using 'tree options'
• Putting words into the sort box
• Putting words into the sort box  
• Rearranging the tree by dragging
• Recording the question  
• Removing the printer limits
• Removing the printer limits  
• Tidy your tree quickly and easily
• Using a branching database you have built...remove the pictures and get the children to put them back
• Using the Expert mode
• Using the 'Record a question' feature

Examples

• Oxford reading tree example

Video Demos

• Textease Timeline Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Timeline guide

Top Tips

• Add information buttons
• Changing a picture in an event box
• Changing a table from a timeline
• Creating a timeline using hours
• Customising your timeline 1. Putting in grid lines
• Customising your timeline 2. Timeline Effects.altering flag styles
• Customising your timeline 3... Timeline effects...titles
• Merging Timelines
• Using levels
• Using the date scale
• Using the timeline examples

Video Demos

• Textease IdeasMap Video Demo

Getting Started Guides

• Textease IdeasMap guide

Downloads

• Textease Studio CT @Home (Version 6.5)
• Textease Studio Plus @Home (Version 5.98)

Getting Started Guides

• Textease Studio CT @Home Installation Instructions

Other

• Info for parents (Word doc) - At Home
• Info for parents (Textease doc) - At Home
• Template letter to parents (Word doc) -At Home
• Template letter to parents (Textease doc) - At Home

Downloads

• Textease Studio Plus (Version 5.98)
• Textease Studio Plus @Home (Version 5.98)
• Textease Viewer

• Turning Round!
• Faxable order form
• ictregexamples - brookside
• ictregexamples - colerne
• ictregexamples - dartford
• ictregexamples - robinhood
• ictregexamples - rodeheath
• Student orders confirmation form
• ITT Student offer flyer - A3
• ITT Student offer flyer - A4
• ITT Student Offer order form
• Jack's slideshow example
• Unit 1A Introduction to modelling - Science
• Unit 1C The information around us - Music
• Unit 1D Labelling and classifying - Science
• Unit 2A Writing stories - English
• Unit 2B Creating pictures - RE
• Unit 2E Questions and answers - Science
• Unit 3A Combining text and graphics - English
• Unit 3C Introduction to databases - Science
• Unit 4A Writing for different audiences - English
• Unit 4B Developing images using repeating patterns - RE
• Unit 4C Branching databases - History
• Unit 4E Modelling effects on screen - Maths
• Unit 5A Graphical modelling - Geography
• Unit 5B Analysing data and asking questions - Maths
• Unit 5D Introduction to spreadsheets - D&T
• Unit 6A Multimedia presentation - Geography
• Design a golf hole