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Discover how journaling can help you learn more about yourself, explore your dreams, values, and beliefs, improve your health, survive unwanted change, succeed in your career, and express your creativity.

The free online course Introduction to Journalism provides information on the basic principles and practices in journalism, such as how to identify a story, how to gather facts, how to perform interviews and research, and how to create news articles while maintaining the highest journalistic ethics. The course begins by introducing you to the key elements of journalism such as identifying what is and what is not newsworthy, how to identify stories which are new, unusual or significant, and how to distinguish between a big news story and a small one. Next, you will learn about organizing and writing the feature story itself: you will learn how to define a feature story, what the basic approaches to writing the feature story are and what different types of feature stories there are. The basic processes and approaches involved in getting the required information for a feature story and putting it into an easily understood form is also explained. You will also learn about the four parts of an editorial, the different approaches to editorial titles and the three types of conclusions most commonly used in editorial writing. You will also learn about the different roles and responsibilities in a newsroom and how to use story weighting to assess a story's value and newsworthiness. Finally, you are introduced to the methods that address ethical issues which might arise during the course of journalistic activities with people, businesses and institutions. You will also learn how journalists must live up to the highest standards of integrity such as truth, fairness and sincerity, and you will learn why journalists must avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest. This course will be of great interest to professionals who work in the areas of communications and reportage and who want to learn how to tell stories in a way that will inform people in society. It will also be of great interest to all learners who would like to learn more about the key practices and procedures in journalism and who may want to pursue a career in journalism.<br />

A quick overview of jQuery from Adobe Developer Evangelist Raymond Camden.

An introduction to the jQuery Mobile framework from Adobe Developer Evangelist Raymond Camden.

Learn to apply lashes flawlessly through this step-by-step lash application crash course.

Learn the necessary tools you will need to know to start you playing lead guitar.

Boost your success by getting Lean! In the world of Lean thinking, your primary goal is to operate more efficiently by eliminating not only defects in products and services, but other forms of waste...

This course will break you into the world of puppeteering and give you a base understanding on how to do puppetry.

Having adequate life insurance and retirement savings are two very important aspects of personal financial planning. This free online personal finance course introduces and explains the basic forms of both life insurance and retirement savings with an emphasis on its application in the U.S. Both term life insurance and whole life insurance are clearly explained with examples, the features of Traditional Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and Roth IRAs are reviewed and the similarities and differences between Traditional IRAs and 401(K)s are described. This course will be of great interest to all learners who are planning their personal finances and would like a clear knowledge and understanding of both life insurance and retirement savings. <br />

MASTER the basics film lighting and video lighting and increase overall production value of your film and video projects

Learn how to use the tools in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 to organize and edit your images and develop an efficient image processing workflow.

Learn how to use the tools in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 to organize and edit your images, fine-tune lighting and color, and develop an efficient image processing workflow.

Learn to use the tools in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for the cloud to organize and edit your images, fine-tune lighting and color, and develop an efficient image-processing workflow.

Learn how to use the Linux desktop operating system along with the included productivity, multimedia, and Internet software.

This course will teach you about open source Linux and how to setup, manage, and customize your own Linux desktop!

This is an intro course to logo design. In this course you can learn how to create a logo for yourself or your client.

Learn how to install Magento. No previous knowledge required Perfect for beginners to Magento eCommerce & online selling

This course will introduce you to basic management theory: planning, organizing, leading and control.

Personal financial debt can be a source of great anxiety and worry for many people, and it can be difficult to know where to start when you want to take control of your financial debts. This free online course helps you get started on the road to reducing your personal financial debts and becoming debt free. The course offers you a clear way of understanding exactly how much money you owe and to whom by setting up a debt spreadsheet, how to contact credit card companies to request a break on interest rates, how to prioritise which debt to pay off first, what strategy you should use to pay off debts based on minimum monthly payments or highest interest rates charged, and how to implement an emergency debt elimination plan if needed. This course will be of great interest to personal finance professionals who work with people who find themselves in financial difficulty and to anyone who wants clear guidance on how to reduce their personal financial debts and become debt free.<br />

<p>Manufacturing industries are a vital component of all modern economies and all of them require employees who are skilled - in and knowledgeable about - manufacturing processes. </p> <br /> <p>This Introduction to Manufacturing Processes will give you a detailed understanding of processes such as casting, forming, cutting and joining. It will review aspects of surface and optical materials engineering as well as examine a number of case studies related to these processes. </p> <br /> <p>The course is ideal for employees in manufacturing industries or business, professionals who want to learn more about this type of work, and anyone who might be seeking a job or career in a manufacturing industry. </p>