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The Life Story of Your T-shirt: Submit Your T-shirt Story

...write up your story, try not to go past a couple of paragraphs unless you absolutely have to! Tick the tickboxes at the bottom to tag your post and agree to the terms of submission (which can be viewed by clicking the link in the text) Press submit. Please note that your submission will have to be approved by a moderator before it is posted, so there may be a delay in...

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Activity 5 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Revisiting Red Clydeside: 'Bloody Friday': The Battle of George Square, Glasgow, 1919

...in January 1919, and to reflect on the enduring legacies of this period. The controversy around Glasgow 1919 and Red Clydeside more generally is a key element of this material. A secondary aim has been to provide a guide to previous research, writing and published output of many varied kinds, as well as accounts of the events on Clydeside provided in other forms of media....

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Article 1 hr

Education & Development

Music, theatre and literature

...is enthusiastic to learn more! How the arts interact with society at large. How to improve her skills in analysing works of fiction. Moving from appreciating literature to perhaps creating some and so would like to learn about how to write fiction. [Banner for Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130) ] Click on the banner above to view other pathways...

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Article 5 mins

Languages

Charles Dickens: Celebrity Author

...writing, it was acting. In this programme we look at Dickens love of acting and the theatre. From Novels to Readings 1858 How Dickens began his professional career reading for his own profit initiating a new and brilliant phase in his career. The American Tour We look at how in 1867 Charles Dickens embarked on an exhausting 19 week tour of America as one of the world's...

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Audio 1 hr 8 mins

Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching

...writing? Incorporating machine translation tools into language teaching can have similarities to using other self-directed strategies, for example flipped classrooms. In both cases, students are given the choice to determine and pursue their own learning objectives. In many instances the teacher can act as a guide and stimulator rather than explaining to and directing the...

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Article 5 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Five ways to... use free software

...write letters on your computer. AbiWord and Open Office will do this for free. Open Office is a large download, but also includes spreadsheet, database, drawing and presentation packages. Google Docs will let you do your word processing on a website. The features are more limited, but there are advantages if you’re collaborating with other people. The downside is that...

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Article 5 mins

History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...write English and most European languages. Your first task is to learn the 24 Greek letters, upper and lower case, along with a small number of extra markings needed to read and write ancient Greek. Activity 1 The Greek alphabet Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Spend a couple of minutes looking at the table of letters, which contains both capitals and lower case. You will...

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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...write well. I also learned how to collaborate with people from different backgrounds and with different expertise, and how to manage projects, both in terms of time, for example if I needed to use a particular experimental facility that was only available within very strict time limits, or to ensure I could bring my work to a successful conclusion within budget. There are...

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Article 10 mins

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