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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...adults engage in at home, often on a sofa or in bed with a drink or a biscuit and in classrooms, we need to offer far more than a few cushions in the book corner! To be really readerled, we can give children options of who to sit with, where to sit, which text to read or share, whether to talk to friends about what they are reading and whether to hear others’...
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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...adult The Sound of Stars, by Alechia Dow If It Makes You Happy, by Claire Kann Let’s Talk About Love, by Claire Kann Full Disclosure, by Camryn Garrett This Is Kind Of An Epic Love Story, by Kacen Callender Felix Ever After, by Kacen Callender You Should See Me In A Crown, by Leah Johnson The Summer of Everything, by Julian Winters Legendborn, by Tracy Deonn Cinderella...
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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...adult; she represents the outside world within which their hut is a juvenile retreat, and a place of secrets. The rest of the scene is punctuated not only by the silences but by Joyce's calls to the two girls, and later we will see that the tension manifests itself in outright antagonism on the part of Angie...Approaching plays: 3 Stage directions - Here is a longer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...adults, and indeed in the past it was often the first book a child was given to read. In her Autobiography, written in 1855 and published in 1877, the feminist writer Harriet Martineau recalls her incessant early reading and study of the Bible (UK RED: 6622), describing how she made ‘Harmonies’ of the four gospels, and how much she was influenced by ‘the moral...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...caring responsibilities. There are no right or wrong answers for this question. If you have limited time, you might want to concentrate first on the parts of the course that cover the learning outcomes you ranked as 1 or 2. Otherwise, work through the course in chronological order, as this is how the course has been designed...Hybrid working: starting in the workplace:...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...adults, 10 kg for children and 5 kg for infants, p = fraction of the TDI allocated to drinking water, C = daily drinking water consumption (2 litres for adults, 1 litre for children, 0.75 litre for infants). Toxicological information is usually found within the Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for commercial chemicals on the websites of chemical suppliers such as Fisher...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...care? You may not yet have a smart watch, an Amazon Echo or a refrigerator that has become hackable. However, as we have seen the explosion of smartphones, video technologies and Pokemon, we are witnessing another technology that is set to become a part of everyday life for everyone. Welcome to the free course Internet of everything. The internet of everything (IoE) is...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...careful now, investing in these companies. It’s a big carbon bubble, there are gonna be lots of stranded assets.’ It’s beginning to – RH: To be fair, they’re saying, ‘It might be a carbon bubble.’ BM: Excuse me? RH: To be fair, they’re saying not that it is a carbon bubble, but that there might be the possibility of a carbon bubble, which is different. BM:...
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