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Have you created an outline and now feel prepared to start writing your novel? Or have you started a novel draft only to find your interest or confidence waning? In this course, the international best-selling authors and professors from The University of British Columbia’s renowned MFA program introduce the essential fiction craft toolbox for writers struggling with the common hurdles of first drafts. 

While ideas and inspiration are often enough to ignite interest in writing a novel, writers can quickly lose confidence, especially when their best efforts have inadvertently produced flat characters, waning conflicts, tangled plots and weak dialogue. Reaching your goal of writing (and perhaps, publishing) a novel requires an understanding of fiction’s deeper mechanics and a familiarity with the specific craft elements that will help translate your creativity and imagination into compelling paragraphs, scenes and chapters.

Through writing exercises aimed at developing new skills, concrete examples from published novels, feedback and discussion with fellow writers and opportunities to identify and strengthen weaknesses in their own projects, learners will broaden their knowledge of fiction craft as they explore creating memorable characters, the art of scene design, tactics for managing unwieldy plots and steps for writing layered and meaningful dialogue.

Whether you’re beginning your novel draft or nearing the end, this course is a unique opportunity to learn the essentials of strong fiction writing from award-winning authors sharing their proven methods and approaches.

The course is recommended for professional and aspiring writers, writing groups, those participating in NaNoWriMo, teachers and anyone who has a novel in progress.

College Writing 2.1x is an introduction to academic writing for English Language Learners, focusing on essay development, grammatical correctness, and self-editing. The five-week course includes a review of basic grammar terminology and understanding; writing effective sentences and paragraphs; introductions and conclusions; strategies for writing longer texts; and thesis statements. The course materials will be offered via readings and videos. An optional course workbook, in ebook form, may be used for additional writing work. Students will participate in online discussions as well as peer review. Students will complete an essay for this part of the course.

In partnership with the U.S. Department of State

UC Berkeley is partnering with the U.S. Department of State to extend the reach of College Writing 2X. Participating U.S. Embassies will host in-person, facilitated discussions sessions around the course content in order to maximize the learning experience. The State Department-supported EducationUSA network will also offer facilitated discussions in some locations for students interested in pursuing higher education in the United States. This partnership is part of the English Education Alliance (E2A), a global effort of the U.S. Department of State to address the global demand for 21st century English language skills.

Learn how to write the Ultimate 1 Page Marketing Plan that Can Double, Even Triple Your Income

Learn to Write a 1 Page Strategic Plan That Will Easily Bring You a 6 - 7 Figure Income & Guaranteed Business Success

A step by step guide to getting you up and running on LinkedIn

Virtual reality is changing the way we interact with the world. But how does it work, what hardware is involved, and how is software written for it?

In this course, part of the Virtual Reality Professional Certificate program, we will explore the foundations of user-friendly virtual reality app development for consumers, as well as enterprise solutions. Both hardware and software aspects will be discussed. You will learn to evaluate devices necessary for virtual reality applications, what their differences are, how you write interactive applications for virtual reality, and we will discuss the most frequent problems you are going to need to solve to write virtual reality software.

In this course, you will explore the basics of virtual reality software through copying and modifying JavaScript to explore tradeoffs in VR application design. Extensive programming experience is not required.

By the end of this course, you will understand what is important for successful virtual reality software and learn how to write simple virtual reality programs themselves with WebVR.

This course is taught by an instructor with almost two decades of experience in virtual reality who leads the Immersive Visualization Laboratory at UC San Diego.

Introductory virology course that covers the interplay between viruses and their host organisms, with with the goal of understanding viral diseases and their prevention.

How Writers Write Poetry 2015 offers an interactive study of poetry writing through video lectures by acclaimed poets, writing assignments, craft discussions and master classes with a teaching team of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates, and a peer feedback community.

Becoming computer literate and competent

If I can teach my mom HTML you can do it as well! Join us now and start swimming in our HTML Training.

Learn HTML from scratch with this HTML Workshop

This course was developed in partnership between W3C and Intel®.

Learn the basics of Web design and style to give your Web sites a professional look and feel. The Intel® XDK team and experts from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will guide you step-by-step in how to use the latest Web standards to create a site to be proud of.

During the course, you will learn the basic building blocks of Web design and style – HTML5 and CSS – to give your site a professional look and feel.

By the end of the course, you should understand all the fundamental elements – from headers and links to images and sidebars – and leave having built a basic framework for your own Web site. 

Want to learn advanced HTML5 tips and techniques? This is the course for you! Find out more about the powerful Web features that will help you create great content and apps.

This course is a natural follow up of HTML5 Coding Essentials and Good Practices. In this course, we continue the exploration of HTML5-based APIs, but also introduce some advanced features related to HTML5, such as Web components, advanced multimedia, audio for music and games, etc.

Like in the first course, you will learn by doing, study the interactive examples and have fun with proposed development projects. One of them will be to create an HTML5 game, so jump in and learn lots!

Canvas is an HTML5 element which gives you drawable surface inside your web pages you can control with JavaScript. Powerful enough to use for compositing images and even creating games. In this course, through several sample projects, you’ll learn how to use the canvas; how to make compositions using shapes, images, and text; how to create effects and filters on images and how to create animations.

HTML5 is the standard language of the Web, developed by W3C. For application developers and industry, HTML5 represents a set of features that people will be able to rely on for years to come. HTML5 is supported on a wide variety of devices, lowering the cost of creating rich applications to reach users everywhere.

Whatever mobile phones, connected objects, game consoles, automobile dashboards, and devices that haven’t even been considered yet, HTML5 helps write once and deploy anywhere!

In this course, you will learn all the new HTML5 features to help create great Web sites and applications in a simplified but powerful way. HTML5 provides native support for video and audio without plug-ins, provides support for offline applications, for games with smooth interactive animations, and much more. 

In this course you will learn the basics of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript in just about an hour.

This course will walk you through the major components of building GRITS, an HTML5 game. We'll talk about how to take standard game development techniques, and use them to create high performance HTML5 applications.

In the free online course HTML5 Game Development - Gameplay and Multiplayer Proof of Concept you will be introduced to gameplay and how to add features such as magic ability and sound to your game. You will learn about setting up a quest system for a player to have a goal within the game and the process involved in creating an Azure website and constructing a server for you to host a multiplayer game on.<br /><br />The course begins by showing you how to add a magic system into your game. This course also teaches you about loading and adding sound to your game and creating a quest system that can chain together to form one large quest. You will also learn about creating and setting up a title and game over screen.<br /><br />Next, the course teaches you how to create and configure an Azure website and a server with Node.js, Express and Socket.IO to host your multiplayer game on. You will also learn about editing your game file to include a multiplayer facility and connecting your game to the server you created. Finally, you will learn about possible ways to further expand your game.<br /><br />This free Alison course will be of great interest to those who wish to learn the basics of creating a multiplayer game and how to add additional elements such as magic, sound and quests to a game. <br />

In the free online course HTML5 Game Development - Lessons and Development Planning you will learn about updating your visual studio environment work with Apache Cordova tools for Visual Studio. As you learn to construct a proper plan, you will get to know the industry standard documentation that is required in game development industry.<br /><br />The course begins by introducing you to tools that you can install into your copy of visual studio so you can run debugging in visual studio with Apache Cordova. You will learn about installing the latest android tools for visual studio. This course will also teach you how the presenter should have created object file for all the game object in their first build of the game and why. You will learn about making plans before you start developing the game, including the issues and tasks you should address in your plans.<br /><br />Next, you will learn about documentation that is common within the game development industry. You will learn about the Game Design Document and its role in a game development. You will also learn about the Technical Design Document, what it outlines and the part of the game development team that will use it. Finally, you will learn about UML diagrams and how it helps to visualize the design of a system.<br /><br />This free Alison course will be of great interest to those who wish to learn more about computer games development.

The free online course HTML5 Game Development - Working with Inventory System, NPCs and Battle System introduces you to important concepts such as creating an inventory for your player character, running &amp; debugging in your web browser, and creating non-player characters for your game. You will learn about creating new scenes, how enchant.js organizes scenes in a stack format, and about creating a battle system for your game to have some playability.<br /><br /><br />The course begins by teaching you about creating an inventory for your player character to use and display on-screen. It also teaches about loading in additional sprite sheets to your game, and about debugging your code in a web browser.<br /><br />Following that, this course offers to learn about creating non-player character (NPC) objects for your player to interact with, and provide insights in getting NPC images out of your already loaded sprite sheets. This course also involves enchants scene stack for creating and displaying new scenes and you will learn about creating a shop for player characters to buy items in.<br /><br />Finally, you will learn about setting up a battle scene including the win and lose conditions. You will also learn about creating an enemy NPC for your player character to fight against, creating attacks for both your player character and enemy NPC. It also includes finishing touches and ideas to expand the game.<br /><br />This free Alison course would be of great interest to those who wish to further their knowledge of computer game development and make games for mobile platforms and web browsers.