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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...change the tempo to add contrast and create interest within a single piece. [This shows a tempo marking in musical notation] Figure 2 A tempo marking in musical notation. Activity 2 Listen to the following extracts and decide whether the tempo, and therefore the pulse, of each extract is fast or slow. Indicate this below using the words ‘fast’ or ‘slow’. While...
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...change occurred is debated. 3. chi (χ / Χ) was pronounced as ‘k’ followed by ‘h’. If possible, you should pronounce this like ‘ch’ in loch, to distinguish it from a kappa, but you will hear it as a ‘k’ sound as well: χρονοϛ (time) strict: simplified: 4. zeta (ζ / Ζ) is properly pronounced like the ‘s’ + ‘d’ sounds in the phrase ‘it is...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...changing his course, after which, finding a favourable wind, he steered towards the coast of Africa, heading directly North North-East. But when he had sailed four or five hundred leagues in this direction, the Masters of the three ships under his command, fearing that they would run out of water before they reached their pretended destination, proposed that they should...
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...changing educational structures, resources, technologies and differing ideas about what it means to be literate. There is a complex interaction between the agency of learners and the structures that shape their educational settings and experiences. In this course, we use the term ‘agency’ to mean all people’s inherent capacity to engage, interpret and make choices...
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...changes. And back up your backup. Once a week, make a backup copy of your files (your dissertation, your notes and the resources you have collected) to an external hard drive, memory stick or cloud storage. Timings & deadlines Work out how much time you have to write your dissertation, and how much time you want to allocate to each section. (There’ll be more on this...
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...changed little until the 1980s. In 1972, new watermarked, blue security paper and laminated photographs were introduced. Eye colour and wife's maiden name were dropped. In this 1982 passport, a space for spouse's photograph is included, a practise that was discontinued in 1988. By the end of 1988, the first burgundy, machine readable passports, featuring the words...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...change over time. Of course there are also other aspects of human communicative behaviour which could be included under the heading of language and increasingly, linguistics has also started to focus on these. Examples include: non-verbal communication such as gestures, body language and facial expressions communication through visual images, music or movement...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...climate shocks or displacement. Academic recovery alone is not enough. To thrive, children must also rebuild their confidence, reconnect socially, and develop the resilience and agency to keep learning in the face of adversity. This two minute video presents a summary: In general, resilience in education can be understood as students’ ability to recover from adversity,...