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Textease Turtle commands
Recently I have been asked just how far the ‘LOGO’ language of Textease Turtle goes and what commands can be used in procedures … so here they are… Turtle Commands for you to try out and experiment with.
Good luck!

Kent Christmas Resources in Textease Studio CT.
If you use Textease Studio CT you can discover a wealth of fantastic Christmas activities on the Kent NGFL Website. These include a compliation of jokes and Christmas Facts from the excellent Woodland School site, details (and templates) of how to create an Advent Calendar, a creatable interactive Nativity scene and many more ideas to adopt, [...]

Textease CT on your SMART board - have you tried?
This is the last of Doug Dickinson’s recent Textease CT CPD sessions in South Gloucestershire - comments for which can be seen here.
Highlights include going on a multi-modal bear hunt, animating the moon around the Earth (anti-clockwise of course!) , kinetic calligrams and showing how to easily create videos and put them on a [...]

Doug Dickinson and Textease CT now on Google video

These are edited highlights from Doug Dickinson’s presentation at the second Textease CT workshop in South Gloucestershire on Monday November 19th.
Despite a few issues with production (an audio glitch within the first couple of minutes, a debutant’s camerawork and the real difficulty of editing HD video on an ordinary-spec PC…) hopefully the many key [...]

Textease CT workshop series kicks-off in South Gloucestershire
Thanks to Doug Dickinson for leading the first of three hands-on seminars in South Gloucestershire this month.
Today’s hosts were The Manor CEVC Primary School in Coalpit Heath. Most of the teachers had never seen Textease before but within minutes Doug had them playing with text-to-speech, as well as recording their own audio files and [...]

More seasonal ideas.
Following on from the firework themed pictures, Simon Mills has come up with some great ideas for extending seasonal use in other ICT tools. Suggestions made include using the firework images created in Textease Paint as a starting point for a guided or shared writing session. He then goes on to point out the benefits of importing [...]

Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics
We’ve noticed more and more people have been searching for ‘Primary Framework’ examples on the internet. Just to remind you we have lots of Free easy to use downloads for all year groups on our website www.softease.com/primaryframework. Or we can send you the resources on a USB stick.
If anyone has their own activities or helpful hints [...]

New version update available
A new version update of Textease Studio CT is now available. Improvements have been made to the speech engine amongst other things. For those of you that already have Textease Studio CT installed, an automatic update button (see image) should be evident on your toolbar. Simply clicking on this will install the new version. To find [...]

Using the colour picker in Textease Paint CT
The colour picker permits you to pickup colours that are in images and match them exactly in the colour palette.
1. Open Textease CT and drag a picture on to the page from the ‘Resource Bank’ . Resize the picture as necessary.
2. Click on the ‘Toolbar control’ button and select the ‘Paint’ toolbar.
3. Click on the [...]

Textease - On the Road
On Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th July, Softease were out visting our Schools and Local Authorities at the Stoke CLC E-maginative Learning Conference. We had an exhibition stand in the main hall where the key speakers and seminars were taking place.
At our stand we were demonstrating Textease and its use in the Curriculum. Multi-modality featured [...]

Stop frame animation
Stop frame animations can be created using clipart images or paintings that have been drawn in Textease Paint CT.
1. Open a Textease Movies CT page and click on the ‘Add Videos & Pictures’ button.

2. Find the images needed by locating the folder they are saved in. If still images are being used change the ‘File [...]

Trafford 26th June 2007
Please put your comments about the Textease Studio CT session below. If there are any questions please ask them here.
Thanks
Doug Dickinson

Textease Super User - 3
TSU 3 - Extra colours in Textease Paint
Advanced colour choice

If you want access to many colours then open the mixing palette and click on the ‘Advanced’ button at the bottom of the window.

Textease Super Users - 2
TSU2 - Stripe selecting large areas of text.

Within a block of text place the caret at the start of the text that is to be selected, then right clicking at the location that is the end point to be selected and all in between will be stripe selected.

Textease Super Users - 1
Are you a Textease Super User ?
This is the first post in the occasional thread for those users of Textease Studio CT who might just want to push the barriers of functionality !
Here you will find some of the little things that might make a real difference to the way you and your children/students work [...]
West Dunbartonshire Textease Studio CT Training 24th/25th April 2007
This blog is essentially to support and help course members with their further work on Textease Studio CT. It will provide a forum to celebrate what has been achieved and a place to ask questions and make comments.
It will also be a place where resources created on the course and used as part of the [...]