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Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...writing to use words in a precise and careful way. So it is important to be able to recognise and understand important terms when you come across them. Note any terms in the definition that you feel are especially important to its meaning. Discussion I noted four terms that seemed to be particularly important: ‘scientific’, ‘organisms’, ‘interrelationships’...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...writing, music, painting that we are interested in, and why they produced it. But it may also mean understanding why one particular form was chosen rather than another: why, for example, did the poet choose to write a sonnet rather than an ode, a ballad, or a villanelle? To appreciate the appropriateness of one form, we need to be aware of a range of options available to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...write r-e-n, ren and you will see the different rens that come depending on what word you want. But we want person, so we click on number 1, or you just type number 1 in your computer, and that will turn into rén. If you want to type number 1 is yī, you just type y-i, and the different characters will come up. And you note this is number 1, so you click on that, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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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Article 10 mins
Take your teaching online Badge icon
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...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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....
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Audio 21 mins
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....
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Activity 5 mins