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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...
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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
Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks

...writing: Long live Tajik mothers who give birth to sons like Dilshod Nazarov. Well done, mother of Dilshod. Tajikistan, the most remittance-dependent country in the world, has had a torrid few years after an economic crisis in Russia, where over a million citizens live and work, rattled the national economy to its core. The country has enjoyed few sporting achievements...
The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!
Education & Development

The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!

...writing doesn’t sound like what’s in my head!’: “I've battled with my assignment most of today and really found myself struggling to get my point across in the way I hear it in my head. This [the podcast] has really helped me relax about it a little and taken away some of the unnecessary pressure I was putting on myself.” “It was like you had climbed into my...
Week 5 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 5 Civilisations: The debate

...creativity, and new inventions inspired by the revival of Europe's classical past. Recently, however, the Renaissance has become 'globalised', as alternative readings of the art of the period take into account of the interdependencies that bound Europe to the rest of the world. In this episode Simon Schama looks at a wide range of art, architecture, and material culture,...
Connecting unseen dots
Education & Development

Connecting unseen dots

...creativity, communication and collaboration, which are all underpinned by a more democratic view of who and how we generate new thinking (including children and young people). In response to the final question, Mathew shared some initial findings from his research showing that what young people and students bring into the educational space is often underreported, and...
Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...creative methodologies to disrupt existing narratives, and the importance of storytelling about a ‘different’ future to create collaborations to ‘doing differently’. [A digital brainstorming session on Appreciative Inquiry using virtual sticky notes.]Padlet board of a digital brainstorming session on Appreciative Inquiry using virtual sticky notes. As a group, we...