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What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...techniques and meditation practices such as mindfulness which you could use to help yourself. The information provided by MIND is a good starting point. 6: Try voluntary work or sport and leisure activities [volunteer woman garden] Becoming actively engaged in community activities through volunteering, community education, or sport and leisure activities can be a good way...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...techniques she uses is the ventriloquising of other people’s words. In the video installation The Singing Will Never be Done, for instance, she recites the text of Enoch Powell’s infamous anti-immigration speech, the ‘Rivers of Blood’, from the late 1960s. With this simple act of placing the words of one person into the mouth of another – Powell, a right-wing...
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The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...technique, execution, originality and musicality will be used. Breaking: a sport founded on artistry Breaking has developed significantly since it emerged on the streets and in the clubs of New York. There is no doubt that the athleticism and physical skills required are comparable to other sports, but what makes it a sport is not the athleticism by itself, but the...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...techniques could be used to process data from a next-generation radio telescope – the Square Kilometre Array. Transcript Training AIs for the Scientific Data Deluge In the coming decade, next-generation facilities like CTA, SKA and the Rubin Observatory will generate vast datasets that will be impossible for humans to manually filter and analyse. We would like to train...
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Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...techniques that make it possible for disabled students to engage with online learning...In this free course, Assistive technologies and online learning, you will explore some of the technology that disabled students use when accessing computers. We will take a look at the tools and techniques that make it possible for disabled students to engage with online...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...technique on a larger scale, including the 11 million words written by Aquinas. Other scholars also began to employ computers to count and measure information, giving rise to the first studies in ‘humanities computing’. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the rise of a further digital technology, the internet, enabling computers to connect across the globe and transmit...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...techniques for speed and power in practice...Training for speed and power in sport and fitness: 1 What are speed and power? - Before you can look at how to train for speed and power you need to understand the definitions, mechanics and physiology of these components of fitness. In Activity 1 you will start by exploring speed and power. Activity 1 What are speed and power?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...technique is listening for common word combinations or chunks. For example, in Spanish, por lo tanto, estoy de acuerdo or vale la pena are chunks. A word of caution though, chunks tend to be said quickly. Estoydacuero or toydacuerdo. Try familiarising yourself with words that appear often in a given context. Looking at the starters on the menu, for instance, will help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs