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Android Development: Lotsa Links

This is meant to be a living archive of Android presentations, articles, videos, whatever that I've presented, co-presented, written, been a witness to, or simply enjoyed and learned from. People ask for this stuff occasionally ("Where can I learn more about performance tuning on Android?" or "Where can I see more videos of Romain? He's so dreamy, with that almost-real French accent!"), so I thought it would be worth recording the links somewhere where I can add new ones over time as stuff comes online (and delete old ones as they become obsolete). I'll attempt to categorize things, but there is overlap on these topics. So the studious developer will, of course, watch and read everything. Twice. The links are presented in rough reverse-chronological order in each section. Some talks date way back to 2010, but they're still relevant today (the advantage of APIs that don't go away...). General Android Development Android Developers Backstage (Tor

News quiz 2014 - Follow up

Activities for reviewing language (vocabulary and some grammar) from News Quiz 2014 Image by DLR   via Wikimedia Commons [ CC BY 3.0 de ] As a follow-up to last week's news quiz, here are seven pages' worth of vocabulary practice and review activities (in 2 levels). Some follow "traditional" format from previous years , others are new, for example, the Intermediate level activities include Netspeak, a web tool I blogged about HERE . I hope you and students enjoy them as much as you enjoyed the quiz. If you still haven't seen this quiz, click HERE : Intermediate level: click  HERE  to download Word doc or preview below: Advanced level: click  HERE  to download Word doc or preview below: ANSWERS: click HERE to download or preview below: