Created an interactive text with word-definition pop-ups in Canva AI

 https://paulsze.net/popup-definition-text

The original idea came from Google's AI for Educators Course. 

One lesson in the course was about using AI for differentiated instruction. One of the possibilities mentioned is to create an interactive text that has some pop-up definitions for words that may be difficult to some learners. 

1, I went to Perplexity:

- pasted in a short paragraph,

- named three words which would be turned into pop-ups (I did not provide the meanings of the 3 words)

- said I wanted an interactive task. 

2.  Perplexity returned an HTML text. It is not interactive yet. 

3. I copied the HTML text, went to Windows Notepad, pasted in the text, and saved it as an HTML file. 

4. I opened it a Chrome. It worked. But the text spanned across the whole screen. I didn't know how to format the page (in Notepad). 

5. I went to POE's create Canvas app; pasted in the HTML text; and asked it to generate the interactive artifact. It worked, but the formatting was the same: it spanned across the whole screen. 

6. I went to Canva AI, and repeated the step. Voila, it ended up with the above interactive text, nicely formatted.