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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way in which research interests and questions are formulated and the kinds of issues active in the surrounding environment. Crafts and Harley formulated their revision of rapid, large-scale industrial growth in the late eighteenth century against a backdrop of...
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...write on the whiteboard, and they also have a kind of text chat, which they can use to communicate with me, and also with each other. I suppose you might call that a kind of back channel. It's available within the system. As well as using the classroom software to actually deliver the classes, there's also a VLE, which allows me to store useful resources for my students...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...Write a paragraph in your notes to clarify and explain your views...Week 1: How different is a digital childhood?: 1.3 Why is technology so appealing? - [Described image] Figure 4 Why do children find digital technology so absorbing? As Lydia Plowman suggests in the previous section, children are often very engaged by digital technology. But why is it so compelling for...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Motivation and goal setting - Academic Study Skills
Education & Development

Motivation and goal setting - Academic Study Skills

...and postgraduate taught students. These include tips on how to study more effectively, time management, what is meant by critical thinking, as well as specific guidance on writing to a university standard. [Cardiff University Logo] This resource was provided by Cardiff University and is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
DNA, RNA and protein formation
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA, RNA and protein formation

...writing the message A more detailed look at transcription, showing how messenger RNA is formed. Translation: reading the message The role of transfer RNA in building protein chains from the information in messenger-RNA. Creating three dimensional structures How protein chains form into three dimensional structures, and the role of ribosomes in protein synthesis....
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...writing, and the creative imagination which he brought to the musical setting of poetry. These qualities made his songs extremely influential on later composers. A succession of German composers wrote Lieder through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss, and they all acknowledged Schubert as...
Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...write – so I would not have to. But, despite wide reading of many excellent books (and I am sure that there are many more excellent books I have not read on the subject but the genre is huge) and despite talking to lots of fear experts, I did not find the systems methods account of fear I was looking for so my research progressed and so did my book. On reflection, I...
Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...writing language...As with so much else in our cultural heritage, the origins of braille lie in Ancient Greece. The historian and scholar Polybius invented what became known to cryptographers (code makers) as the Polybius Square, a system for encoding letters using a 5x5 grid. Polybius square with the modern English alphabet 1 2 3 4 5 1 A B C D E 2 F G H I/J K 3 L M N O P...