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Creative Education : Suicide: How to Support During Crisis Moments- 9/5/2021
During this course we explore the practical steps we can take to support someone who is suicidal. It's designed to give you the confidence and ideas you need in those most difficult moments. This course was commissioned by HeadStart Kernow, a National Lottery funded project
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Confy – Conferences schedule viewer
This was mentioned at the South Devon Tech Jam in May 2021, so thank you to Seabass for this. It is a conference schedule viewer, has been used as events such as Fosdem, so looks really good. I think Noisytoot was trying to compile this, so hopefully get an update over the next month and perhaps at the next Jam on June 12th. Or perhaps next week at the DCGLUG meet, Saturday 15th May 2021 @ 12:00 on jit.si.
I am also at a Debian Conference 2021 planning meeting on Monday 10th May, so will give this a mention too. Could be useful.
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#FreeSoftware,#Conference,#Schedule,#Viewer,#Gtk3, #libhandy,#Python3,#python-gobjects,#Meson,#Ninja
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Translate Science
Another interesting project that I found on Mastodon. This is translating academic and science texts to different languages.
I have replied to their Mastodon post and also mentioned the Africa Wiki project / contest. As the two projects could complement each other if there are articles on Wikipedia about African Scientists and contributors to science. Ensure these articles on Wikipedia are also translated. But also perhaps translate associated Science texts too.
Of course it is all down to the number of people who have the skills are willing to share these skills.
From a personal viewpoint, I really feel employers MUST recognise these contributions. They are valuable to the projects but also help people develop important skills such as remote collaboration.
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#Science,#Academic,#Text,#Papers,#Translation
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Africa Wiki Challenge
This is a contest, to improve the information on Africa on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. There are criteria for taking part. Great idea and initiative to improve the service.
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#Wikipedia,#Contest,#Africa.#Article,#Contribute
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OpenLearn Courses
Education & Development course
Am I ready to be a distance learner? Introductory level Education & Development course Last accessed: 04 February 2021
Essay and report writing skills Introductory level Education & Development course Last accessed: 27 February 2021
Encouraging book talk in the school library Introductory level Education & Development course Last accessed: 14 August 2018
Science, Maths & Technology course
Galaxies, stars and planet Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 27 October 2020
Health and safety in the laboratory and field Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 18 August 2018
In the night sky: Orion Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology cours Last accessed: 30 June 2020
The Moon Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 10 February 2019
The Sun Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 31 December 2019
The evolving Universe Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 27 December 2019
Particle physics Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 10 November 2020
Simple coding Introductory level Science, Maths & Technology course Last accessed: 28 October 2020
Sociology course
Children’s rights Intermediate level Sociology course Last accessed: 16 November 2018
Environmental Studies course
Energy resources: Tidal energy Intermediate level Environmental Studies course Last accessed: 28 October 2020
Money & Business course
Facilitating group discussions Introductory level Money & Business course Last accessed: 16 August 2018
Mathematics & Statistics course
Numbers, units and arithmetic Introductory level Mathematics & Statistics course Last accessed: 27 January 2021
Education course
Teaching assistants: support in action Introductory level Education course Last accessed: 11 September 2018
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#OpenLearn,#OpenUniversity,#Learning,#Education, #Development
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Scismic CV workshop
As I am looking for employment, I attended a Scismic CV workshop last night (6/5/2021). This took place at 6pm ET which made it 11pm UK time, nevertheless I attended and gained soe useful pointers. Workshop was presented via zoom.
Scismic [1] are a matching company, you create profiles with skills and you are matched to employer job profiles, so they are not a recruitment agency, employers are able to find you. Their primary focus is Biotechnology, again this is a workshop so was worth attending, it is good to work outside the box and take up of any help / advice available.
So, on to some of what was covered:-
How to structure your CV to match the job you are applying for, putting in your skills / expertise and then ensuring these are matched with your current or previous job roles.
Writing a personal statement that is specific to role, positive, impactful and highlights your strengths. Using the right vocabulary to increase effectiveness.
The purpose of the CV is to get you through the first stage, after which you are able to discuss about your skills / strengths further.
This helps to match you even if you don't feel you are a 1000% match, there are skills that can transfer over.
Keeping an industry CV to two pages, highlighting relevant skills.
Structure also included keeping fonts and margins consistent throughout the document, when to use tables (and the possible pitfalls of this)
Suggested CV sections include:-
There is an excellent template at [2] which I am using myself. Even though I am not looking at Biotech jobs, I like the layout and format of the document.
The importance of connecting and networking with others, how to do this, who to perhaps follow on websites such as LinkedIn, Webinars and other events Also some tips on researching roles were topics of discussion.
So a very useful workshop, from which I now have 7 pages of notes. A useful item mentioned is a 'informational interview' which I am going to look in to, and in fact there is another workshop on this in about two weeks.
Workshop was about an hour, so 45 mins for the presentation and 15 minutes for questions and answers at the end.
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1 Scismic 2 Scismic CV Template TAGS
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Public Money, Public Code
This is a campaign, by the fsfe. Any code that is developed, with public funds, should be released under a license that makes it available to everyone.
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VIDEO
This is the talk from LibrePlanet on PMPC
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#public,#money,#public,#code,#fsfe,#campaign,#LibrePlanet,#Video,#Talk
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Libreplanet Videos
Just had this through from the Free Software Foundation
All the talk videos from LibrePlanet 2021 are now live.
LibrePlanet videos are now live! Post on site.
You can watch and share them from both:-
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Wormholes
I just found an interesting paper on arXiv about wormholes. While wormholes are still hypothetical,, this paper looks at how we can look for them, formation ,structure.
Feel free to discuss further on discourse. I will update this post if I create a thread on there. Otherwise I will start a thread on the Open University forums.
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#Physics,#Astronomy,#Wormholes.#arXiv,#Astrophysics
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OpenLearn : Discovering Chemistry
Just signed upto Discovering Chemistry with Open Learn [1]. This is a 24 hour course from the Open University [2] via their OpenLearn platform.
This is partly for personal interest, partly for career development and will help me develop useful knowledge going forward. I have set up a thread on Discourse [3] to facilitate discussion.
I would like to learn more about Isotope shift , which is mentioned in a arXiv article [4] from 2017. This topic is probably beyond the scope of the chemistry course, but is a good starting point. Hopefully however this Chemistry course can build on what I already know about isotopes at least.
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1 Open Learn 2 The Open University 3 Discourse Thread 4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04250
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#OpenUniversity,#OpenLearn,#Chemistry,#Learning
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