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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...writing systems, and their work allows us today to discover many fascinating stories from those cultures. While it is interesting and advantageous to know more than one language, our native language is particularly important, as it is the tool in which we most easily encode and decode our emotions, our stories, and our secrets. If we don’t start documenting languages...
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Video 5 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
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
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: Image by 272447 from Pixabay...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...creatively – to be able to imagine ‘what if …?’ and come up with something that didn’t exist before. Some of the greatest human achievements have come from creative design engineering, allowing the realisation of some truly remarkable change in our world. Design engineering has helped to transform the environment, create incredible super-structures on land and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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
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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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...writing skills needed for university success...This course is for anybody who is thinking of studying for a university degree and would like to develop the English reading and writing skills needed to succeed. You'll be introduced to academic reading and effective note-making strategies. You'll develop your essay writing. You'll look at academic style and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs