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The inevitable successor to the first stack:
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is a stack where the children (err: end-users) have to do some text input:
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This serves both for reinforcement & checking that what happened with the first stack penetrated some tiny minds.

We'll start at the beginning and modify the title card:
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Of course a lot of work has been done for us: but we must bear in mind the FUNCTIONALITY of a lot of the images is NOT what we need in this new stack.

What will we be looking at in this stack?

Instead of drag-and-drop, we will be looking at text entry and checking the contents of text fields.

As we are expecting children to do something quite a bit more sophisticated than in the first stck we will provide them with a PROMPT in the first CARD:
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We will also use FEEDBACK images:
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We need to modify the Left Arrow script:
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We need to modify the Left Arrow script:
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We need a script in the Tick/Check image:
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I have used the permissive CONTAINS as I am NOT really worried about children using punctuation marks or not.

Let's test things out:
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Now we need a new script in the FORWARD ARROW image:
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We will Copy-Paste these three images-as-buttons onto every card:
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We need to modify each cardScript:
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We can allow for more than 1 possible answer:
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Do NOT forget to DELETE the drop targets as they are no longer needed.
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Bed beckons (especially as I did 4 hours digging in the garden):
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More tomorrow from this sworn sabbath-breaker.

Disclaimer: No presbyterian ministers were harmed in the manufacture of this stack.

Having copied the new scripts into all the cards, I also decided to provide spelling prompts:
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And here's the completed stack: