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Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...Table 1: ‘Who am I?’ HIGHLIGHTEDWHO AM I? I am … Words: 0 Now write down your thoughts in answer to the following questions: How many of the ways you described yourself were things that connected you to other people or groups? How many were things that you value most about yourself personally? Did anything surprise you? Discussion All of you will have different...
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...Table 1, which have been selected from the IEEE 802.3 standard. Table 1: Selected parameters for 1000Base-SX operating over 50 μm multimode fibre PARAMETER VALUE Minimum launch power −9.5 dBm Receive sensitivity −17 dBm Allowance for connector and splice losses 1.5 dB Maximum fibre attenuation 3.5 dB km−1 Link power penalties 4.1 dB The minimum launch power and the...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...de Coubertin who revived the modern Olympic Games there were in fact many Olympic events taking place throughout Europe before Coubertin was even born. One of these, set in the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, has been widely considered by sports historians as one of the key influences on the modern Olympics, and even delegates for the Tokyo 2020’s organising...
A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015

...de thríocha bliain i ndiaidh sin, sa dóigh gur bheartaigh mé féin agus an Dr Seosamh Watson tionscnamh a bhunú le hiarracht a dhéanamh moill a chur ar an chreimeadh teanga. I 1984, nuair a thosaigh Oideas Gael, thiocfadh linn siúl trasna an bhealaigh go Tigh Bhiddy agus gan ach Gaeilge a chluinstin ón fhoireann agus ón chuideachta ann. Sa lá inniu (2015) tá an...
Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots to represent the letters (and some common pairs of letters) of the French alphabet. [Barbier's sonography ('night writing')] Sonography In 1821 Barbier demonstrated his system at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institute for Blind Youth) in Paris...
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...table below to make a note of your answers. This video deals with subject matter that some people may find upsetting. Video 1: Metro Trains Melbourne 'Dumb ways to die' advert (make sure to open this link in a new tab/window so you can easily return to this page). GIRL: Glug, glug, glug. Thank you. Glug, glug. Glug, glug. [TEXT ON SCREEN: This isn’t just any fuel. This...
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...des Beaux Arts). These subsequent versions of the myth may on the surface depart from Ovid’s narrative, and you should note that the poem is actually reacting to the painting in the first instance, and is, therefore, ‘once removed’ from Ovid. If you already have some skills of visual analysis or feel comfortable with literary critiques of twentieth-century poetry,...
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...tables will not really help later in their school career. The basic foundational concept is important. Laying the foundations for future mathematics learning If children are able to understand that addition and subtraction are inverses of each other, and if they can use one-to-one correspondence to solve early multiplication problems, this gives them a secure foundation...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs