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Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...everyday life Do you use social media or other web-based publishing platforms? How many? How often? What does your data-trail say about you? If you have a social media profile, see if you can find out how to download all of your data; alternatively, try searching for yourself and finding out what others can see. Imagine you have recently taken a brilliant photograph on...
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...English doctor called Edward Jenner tested the first form of vaccination on a young boy called James Phipps, who was the son of Jenner's gardener. At the time, smallpox was widespread. But Jenner had apparently overheard a milkmaid bragging that she would never catch smallpox because she had previously suffered with cowpox. Jenner decided to test this, first taking...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...everyday lessons so that you are aware of what the students have learned during a lesson, after a lesson, after a sequence of lessons and at the end of a course or academic year. Formative assessment can be carried out by the teacher or by the pupils themselves through self- or peer assessment. The purpose of assessment of learning (AoL) is to find out what pupils know,...
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...everyday. LARRY VINER What we're talking about are people that are sent to prison for whom we would like to have an alternative. We do have alternatives. We have community sentences. We have the facilities to treat alcoholics, drug addicts, schizophrenics, all of whom find themselves in prison. What we don't have is the will on the part of either the Home Secretary, the...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...everyday world, bringing them together in his demanding all-night performances. (Sutton, 1984, p. 127) The event, then, has significance on a number of levels from simple entertainment to esoteric ritual – it is received on a number of levels and that reception depends to a great extent on aesthetic values specific to this particular culture. This is aptly summarised by...
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...everyday measurements metric units have been adopted: petrol in litres and sugar in kilogram bags. However, this is, generally, not the case in science. In 1960 an international conference formally approved a standard set of scientific units, thus replacing at a stroke the many different systems of measurement that had been used up until then by scientists of different...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...everyday life, including; the ability to learn, to feel, express and manage a range of positive and negative emotions, the ability to form and maintain good relationships with others and to manage change and uncertainty (Mental Health Foundation, 2020). In the opening audio you heard a parent describe some of the difficulties that her child experienced leading up to a...
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...English town of Watford during the last general election in May, 2005. As the election in Watford is very close, the battle is attracting national interest. So the main candidates come together for a significant and very public part of the campaign, a live national TV debate. MAN: This is Claire Ward. CLAIRE WARD: Hi. NARRATOR: Claire Ward, who has been the member of...