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The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
History & The Arts

The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling

...writing 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' in a room at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. What drives literary tourists to visit the room where she penned the final chapter?...In 2007 a travel journalist, Laura Knight, reviewed the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh for The Times: The windows of room 652 give me a whiff of Hogwarts school for wizards. Two tiny apertures high up...
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Article 10 mins
Simple Coding - Summary
Digital & Computing

Simple Coding - Summary

...writing flat instead of float or forgetting punctuation like commas and colons, or using the wrong data type, leads to an error. You have also seen that programming involves writing clear and understandable code (e.g. by using comments and plain English names for variables and functions) to make it easier to change later, and testing it thoroughly. Learning to program...
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Activity 5 mins
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...creativity which helps them to manage the adversities of life and build emotional resilience. The success of Harry Potter may also indicate the way children need to engage with magic, mystery, terror and fantasy Hay & Nye, writing from an educational research perspective, suggest that spirituality is innate in children. The features they identify in children's...
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Article 5 mins
Digital Film School
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital Film School

...creative and try something new. Make your video look interesting Rick Goldsmith explains some of the creative techniques to help you produce the best from your location. Post-production pep-talk John Sinton discusses how editing is where all your hard work comes together, it’s the time where your individual creativity shines. Archive your project Joe Mills explains the...
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Video 1 hr 13 mins
Plastic planet
Nature & Environment

Plastic planet

...creativity, as we embraced the magic of this versatile product. But it was at a cost - has the material which made the 21st Century brought about an environmental catastrophe?...[Bird with plastic waste] Plastic peril The scale of the problem we're facing. Plastics Watch on the BBC Turning the tide Different approaches, different futures. Why plastic? Why has the world...
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Article 5 mins
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria

...Creative Commons license Das Mohnweckerl Mohnweckerl is a small, soft white roll topped with poppy seeds. Image: © Beverley Daley-Yates Die Semmel Semmel or kaisersemmel are typical soft white bread rolls with five-leaved star-shapes on top, found on dining tables across Austria at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Image: © Beverley Daley-Yates Der Apfelstrudel One of the...
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Activity 5 mins
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...writing essays? An obvious way of finding out the answer to this question is by searching through successful essays. We could do this by simply reading example essays one by one and looking for the pronouns 'we' and 'I', counting the number of each pronoun and seeing which occurred most often. Another, easier and more accurate, way is to use a computer to search through a...
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Article 10 mins
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...writing and other communication more effective. So, in this course you will see how studying grammar as a tool for meaning-making has numerous useful applications in the real world of professional practice and everyday communication. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E304 Exploring English Grammar. Brief definitions of words in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs