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You didn't know there was worksheet printing on textivate...? - The textivate blog. You might not have noticed...

You didn't know there was worksheet printing on textivate...? - The textivate blog

"Print Worksheet" buttons are beginning to appear on more and more textivate screens. These buttons will only work if you are a textivate subscriber and you are logged in to textivate. The video below gives you a quick idea of the kinds of worksheets you can print based on any text in textivate. The browser used in the video is Google Chrome, which is particularly good because it has an automatic print preview as well as a "save as pdf" option - which is how the pdfs further down the post were created.

Dead easy to do. You don't need to upload a text to print out a worksheet. (But as I said, you DO need to be a subscriber if you want to print worksheets). We recommend Firefox or Chrome for worksheet printing. Here are links to the 17 worksheets in the video (pdfs): 1. 2. 3. 4. 10 strips - put the 10 strips of text in order. Tools. X-Ray Goggles allow you to see the building blocks that make up websites on the internet.

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Activate the goggles to inspect the code behind any webpage, then remix elements with a single click, swapping in your own text, images and more. You can build: a custom homepage for the New York Times an alternate version of a controversial webpage a funny remix of your best friend's favorite site and more! Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create and share your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser, then instantly preview your work. A personalized greeting card an online poster for your favorite movie a hilarious meme and more! Popcorn Maker helps you easily remix web video, audio and images into cool mashups that you can embed on other websites. An animated gif with sound a documentary with dynamic links a video profile to introduce yourself to the world and more! Tools. Popcorn Maker. Please give your project a name before saving Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent.

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At about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of its total land area.[2] With 1.1 billion people as of 2013, it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population.[3] The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It has 54 fully recognized sovereign states (or countries), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.[4]Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger.[5] Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria by population.

ELT + Technology: Lesson Ideas Using Tellagami App. Tellagami is a free, user-friendly app which allows users to create a short video (or 'gami') with an animated character, background of their choice and up to 30 seconds of audio recording.

ELT + Technology: Lesson Ideas Using Tellagami App

This post gives a brief guide as to how to use the app and two ideas of how the app could be used in class or with learners. The App The app opens with a default character and background. You are able to change the way the character looks, where they're standing, and their emotional state. The app lets users set the backgroud either to a photograph on the device, a photo taken at that time, or one of the app's preset backgrounds. The Lessons 1. As Tellagami allows us to change the emotion on the character's face, it can be used to introduce to learners some of the ways in which prosody is used to show the emotional state of the speaker. 2.

I hope you find these lessons fun, please let me know how you are using Tellagami with your students. Morfo.