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HTML: Text Markup with HTML and CSS
In this video, you will learn how to properly markup your text content with HTML code. Mark will then review how to use CSS to style your content.
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HTML: Creating Your First HTML Document
In this video, you will learn how to create your first HTML5 document.
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Google Fonts: Downloading and Using Fonts in HTML
Google Fonts gives web developers and designers access to thousands of fonts available in the cloud. In this video, Mark will show you how to find Google fonts, how to download them for offline use in applications like Photoshop, and...
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Can We Teach AI To Talk? | #AI101
This week, we’re talking about Natural Language Processing! Stay tuned for the end of the video for a lot of bloopers :)
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Can Language Models Lie? | WebGPT, DeepMind Retro, and The Challenge of Fact-Checking in LLMs
Can Language Models Lie? It's complicated, but we're teaching them to do better.
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How Does Handwriting Recognition Work? | Scribble for iPadOS 14
So I've been using Scribble on iPadOS 14 for the past week now, and here's my review.
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Duplex, Nest Hub, and More! | Google I/O 2019
What’s new from Google this year? This week, I’m covering Google I/O 2019!
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Persuasive Writing
Persuasive Writing explains the concept of persuasive by citing the characteristics and describing the purpose of persuasive text.
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Using a Glossary
Using a Glossary examines the importance of clarifying unknown words by using a glossary to determine meanings.
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Drawing Conclusion
Drawing Conclusions teaches how to use clues from informational text to draw conclusions.
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Making Inferences
Making Inferences explains how context clues can be used to make inferences about a story.
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What’s the Big Idea?
“What’s the Big Idea?” discusses the main idea and supporting details of a text.
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Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to...
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Dramaturgy - WTF? An introduction to dramaturgy and the dramaturg in theatre
Although originating in the dramatic theatre or narrative theatre, dramaturgy is an increasingly useful notion for describing the affective journey an audience goes on while watching a play or performance.
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Sedimented Meanings
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) describes the importance of trying to unpack the various layers of meanings that have accrued to words and concepts over the course of history.
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Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) discusses how he was forced to revisit his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment decades later and the effect that it had on him.
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Summarize a Scientific Text
A video entitled "Summarize a Scientific Text” which discusses how to identify the main idea and details of a scientific text.
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Write a How-To Text
“Write a How-To Text” models how to write a how-to text and provides examples.
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Making Character Inferences
A video titled “Making Character Inferences” which introduces the definition of an inference and reviews methods to help you make inferences about characters in a story.
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Graphic Aids in Texts
A video entitled, “Graphic Aids in Texts,” which explains how graphic aids are used in informational texts and reviews the different types of commonly used graphic aids.
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Tone and Mood in Literature
A video entitled “Tone and Mood in Literature” which analyzes the tone and mood in literary passages.
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Key Ideas and Details
A video entitled “Key Ideas and Details” which models how to identify key ideas and details in an informational text.
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Describe Events
This is a video entitled “Describe Events” which describes the events discussed in an informational text.