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The Sedney Institute Podcast is your practical guide to building in-demand skills, growing your career, and succeeding in online learning. Designed for students, professionals, educators, and lifelong learners, the podcast explores career pathways, TVET and professional skills, digital learning, language training, and employability trends.Each episode features expert insights, real-world experiences, and actionable tips on skills development, career planning, course creation, teaching online, CV building, and adapting to the future of work. Whether you’re upgrading your skills, transitioning...

Whether you want to write your own scripts or simply gain a deeper appreciation for the great stories you see unfold on the screen, Professor Angus Fletcher is here to show you the way in Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story. Professor Fletcher, Professor of English and Film at The Ohio State University, brings both a personal and scholarly perspective to this craft. As a screenwriter himself, he has experienced the ins and outs of the process first-hand.

Every aspect of screenwriting is covered with an authority and credibility never seen in any book to come before. Told with honesty, humor, and vulnerability from the real-world perspective of a working, professional screenwriter, Kill the Dog reveals the secrets of what it takes to have a successful career as a Hollywood screenwriter.

The aim of this audiobook is entertainment - and surprise - but there will be a fair bit of erudition and incidental education along the way. We discover the oldest words, the newest, the longest, the shortest, the most frequently used, the costliest (yes, words can come with prices attached), the funniest, the most fatal, the most unusual...From the words Shakespeare gave us to the latest in sexting, the best and the worst, the most amusing and amazing words are here.

Magician and fortune teller Jared Howell has spent years performing illusions about the paranormal, then the paranormal started following him offstage. He talks with psychics, magicians, paranormal investigators, and psychical researchers about the space between skepticism and belief. An exploration of how we search for meaning in the things we can’t explain. An exploration of how we search for meaning in the things we can’t explain.

Exploring the parallels between video games and the world’s most exciting, innovative spaces, this sequel to the groundbreaking Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds explains how the same techniques that pull players into games for hours at a time can be employed to draw participants into immersive experiences. Join Margaret Kerrison as she guides our next generation of immersive storytellers on a deep dive into the creative possibilities of this new realm of storytelling.

By MLC students, for young Creative Practitioners everywhere. This show is designed for students at the Music Learning Collective to showcase their talents and share their thoughts as their journeys progress.

In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire. Confidential became the best-selling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Confidential's spectacular rise was followed by an equally spectacular fall.

Learn and improve your English with the BBC. Collected here for the first time are 12 episodes from BBC Learning English's popular 6 Minute English series. Aimed at intermediate-level learners of English, each programme examines a different topic which is discussed and explained to help learners...

Welcome to the ZoukNerds Podcast! This is the ultimate destination for Brazilian Zouk enthusiasts and dance aficionados! Join us as we delve into the world of this beautiful dance, exploring its vibrant history, sharing inspiring stories, and connecting with the passionate community of ZoukNerds around the globe. Whether you're a seasoned pro or taking your first steps into the world of Brazilian Zouk, this podcast is your guide to the rhythm, the connection, and the joy that defines the Brazilian Zouk experience. Get ready to dance, learn, and be inspired with the ZoukNerds Podcast!

Roger Mudd joined CBS in 1961 and rose to fame as the congressional correspondent, covering the historic Senate filibuster debate over the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Mudd was there to see Dan Rather going toe-to-toe with the Nixon White House, Marvin Kalb deciphering the State Department, Daniel Schorr bird-dogging Watergate, Lesley Stahl and Connie Chung staking out all the president's men, George Herman presiding over Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer covering the Pentagon like a police reporter.

The audio course designed to teach the U.S. Midwestern American accent focuses on proven instructional methods to help learners acquire this specific way of speaking. The course is structured to guide students through understanding and practicing the accent, leveraging oral posture, common phrases, listen-and-repeat exercises, and real accent examples.

Britain's most esteemed scholar of 16th and 17th century literature, Frank Kermode is also a noted author and professor. In this Modern Library Chronicle, he uses the context of the Elizabethan Era to link each of Shakespeare's plays to their probable years of creation. By portraying the bard's England in terms of its society, economy, and arts, Kermode provides an invaluable guide to understanding Shakespeare?s works.

New opera enthusiasts and seasoned aficionados alike will delight in Dale Harris' witty and insightful analyses of La Traviata, Carmen, The Magic Flute, and La Boheme. The notable music critic, whose lectures at the Metropolitan used to be sell-out events, examines these operas in terms of libretto, plot, music, performance history, and cultural background, amply illustrated with musical examples.

The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents: Glenn Miller, the leader of the most famous big band in the USA Pérez Prado, the Cuban musician who was known as ‘the King of Mambo’ Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the USA Luciano Pavarotti, one of the...

Higher learning is hosted by multi award-winning Artist, Activist, and SUNY Geneseo Professor, Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, and produced by three-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Quinn. Airing Fridays from 8pm - 9pm on 89.3 WGSU, streaming online, and available on all podcast platforms.

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/subscribe Daily poems to encourage conversation, kindness and bravery.

I ventured a broad gate that many enter toward dismay.Social dissolution and desolation, mind fragmentation, all learnt from disobedience.A narrow gate is harder to locate but returns more satisfaction.Plus years of life and research knowledge shared.

I ventured a broad gate that many enter toward dismay.Social dissolution and desolation, mind fragmentation, all learnt from disobedience.A narrow gate is harder to locate but returns more satisfaction.Plus years of life and research knowledge shared.

How to Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screenwriting, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels. With thirty years' experience as an award-winning scriptwriter, journalist, author, and broadcaster, David Quantick is ideally suited, as a writer, to write this definitive writer's guide to writing...everything.