After seeing Sho Tanaka's post, I had a bit of a flash of inspiration.
(She's working on something called "Blackout Poetry", where you basically take a piece of text (newspaper clipping, book page, classified ad, etc.), mark out the majority of the text with a marker, leaving only a handfull of words left on the page. The remaining words, when read in sequence, make a poem.)
An idea along those lines came to me-
As an avid gamer, I frequent a lot of video game industry related websites, blogs and forums. One of the issues you often run into on these sites is spoilers (people talking in forums about parts of a narrative game which spoil the plot of said game's storyline). In order to prevent accidental "spoiling", contributors often blank out parts of their text using basic HTML code. To be able to view the hidden text, one only need highlight the the text in question. The highlighting then contrasts against the background color, and voila, the text is revealed.
As exemplified below-
(I am typing on the internet)
I was thinking about writing a two-in-one story, essentially having lines of the actual story, maybe with a secondary story running between each line of the "actual story".
I'm not quite set on the details yet, but I am intrigued by the possibilities...
How about something like a flashcard study activity?
ReplyDeleteReading your post, I was reminded of the kids I see studying on the trains. They have a red or green piece of translucent plastic which reveals the answers to their study questions when they hold it over the page.
Wonder if something like that could be done with css where a click of button on the page changes the background color to reveal the answers to the clues.
Just thinking out loud. Would like to see what you're able to come up with on this interesting idea.