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Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...education, hobbies, beliefs, values, lifestyle. Personal history: major events in their life, including the best and the most traumatic times. Don’t write any more than outline notes for the moment. You will use this character profile later so make sure you know where to find it. You can use this as an ongoing method – creating a profile with headings such as these...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...technology, changing tastes and consumers’ spending habits. The media often have fun writing about the way the list of representative items changes each year. In the 1950s, the mangle, crisps and dance hall admissions were added to the basket, with soap flakes among the items taken out. Two decades later, the cassette recorder and dried mashed potato made it in, with...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...technology to discover the sea. (Dening, 1992, p. 307) Evidence suggests that the people who first populated the Pacific, whom anthropologists refer to as ‘Austronesians’, departed from eastern-most Asia and the islands off Southeast Asia. As geographer Patrick Nunn points out, leaving the mainland, or islands that are densely-packed and often visible one from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation....Week 1: Beginning the journey: Introduction - [An image of the night sky.] Figure 1 The night sky Travel back in time and space to just before the Sun was born then move forward into the future to watch a star die. Exciting enough? Stick with us, and explore places you could never imagine, as you travel to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Gwella profiadau tystion sy’n gleifion, teuluoedd a chydweithwyr o’r broses Addasrwydd i Ymarfer
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gwella profiadau tystion sy’n gleifion, teuluoedd a chydweithwyr o’r broses Addasrwydd i Ymarfer

...educational videos: principles and guidelines for maximising student learning from video content’, CBE Life Sciences Education, 15(4). Y Comisiwn Ansawdd Gofal (2014) ‘Complaints Matter’. CQC, UK. Dictionary.com (n.d.) ‘concern’. Ar gael yn: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/concern (Wedi'i gyrchu: 24 Ionawr 2024). Y Cyngor Deintyddol Cyffredinol (2015) ‘GDC...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...educated circles to whom their work was principally addressed). This is very different from the narrative of ‘Erlkönig’, in which the song tells the whole story, as well as conveying the feelings of the characters in it. Schubert ends the song with six bars of the piano, rising higher and higher, pianissimo. Like the song of the nightingale earlier, this has an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...educate the naïve. We go out of our way to help others to learn. So I was interested in whether that might actually happen in meerkats. Young pups need to learn how to catch and kill things like scorpions. So I was interested in whether adults would teach them how to do this. And in fact this is what seems to be the case. So they will bring prey that’s alive, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...education as well as in relation to the maintenance of individual well-being. In settings from working with rights activists in post-conflict situations, from writing with hospice patients and staff to workshops with military veterans, Creative Writing is seen to provide a dynamic of shared writing and reading which appears to make other things possible. Apart from...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs