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1) Using the note-taking, camera, and voice recording features to collect language samples from everyday interactions and media.
2) Downloading vocabulary flashcards, listening materials, reading materials, and language exchange applications to facilitate independent practice on mobile phones.
3) Encouraging writing practice through activities like collaborative storytelling via text messages, keeping blogs, and microblogging on Twitter.
4) Facilitating speaking practice through language exchanges between partnered students who communicate regularly via phone calls or voice recordings.
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1) Using the note-taking, camera, and voice recording features to collect language samples from everyday interactions and media.
2) Downloading vocabulary flashcards, listening materials, reading materials, and language exchange applications to facilitate independent practice on mobile phones.
3) Encouraging writing practice through activities like collaborative storytelling via text messages, keeping blogs, and microblogging on Twitter.
4) Facilitating speaking practice through language exchanges between partnered students who communicate regularly via phone calls or voice recordings.
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This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
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- Doing projects and internships in college to build a portfolio.
- Learning about different roles and technologies through industry research.
- Contributing to open source projects to build experience and network.
- Developing a personal brand through a website and social media presence.
- Networking through events, communities, and finding a mentor.
- Practicing interviews through mock interviews and whiteboarding coding questions.
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2. There are many possible user intents beyond just transactional, navigational and informational. Identifying intent shifts is important during core updates. Sites may need to optimize for new intents through different content types and sections.
3. Responding effectively to core updates requires analyzing "before and after" data to understand changes, identifying new intents or page types, and ensuring content matches appropriate intents across video, images, knowledge graphs and more.
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This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
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Content Methodology: A Best Practices Report (Webinar)contentlyThis document provides an overview of content methodology best practices. It defines content methodology as establishing objectives, KPIs, and a culture of continuous learning and iteration. An effective methodology focuses on connecting with audiences, creating optimal content, and optimizing processes. It also discusses why a methodology is needed due to the competitive landscape, proliferation of channels, and opportunities for improvement. Components of an effective methodology include defining objectives and KPIs, audience analysis, identifying opportunities, and evaluating resources. The document concludes with recommendations around creating a content plan, testing and optimizing content over 90 days.
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- Doing projects and internships in college to build a portfolio.
- Learning about different roles and technologies through industry research.
- Contributing to open source projects to build experience and network.
- Developing a personal brand through a website and social media presence.
- Networking through events, communities, and finding a mentor.
- Practicing interviews through mock interviews and whiteboarding coding questions.
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2. There are many possible user intents beyond just transactional, navigational and informational. Identifying intent shifts is important during core updates. Sites may need to optimize for new intents through different content types and sections.
3. Responding effectively to core updates requires analyzing "before and after" data to understand changes, identifying new intents or page types, and ensuring content matches appropriate intents across video, images, knowledge graphs and more.
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3. On October 31st, we celebrate
Halloween, thought to be the
one night of the year when
ghosts, witches, and fairies
are especially active.
5. The Facts
Neither the word Halloween or the date 31 October
are mentioned in any Anglo-Saxon text indicating
that it was just an ordinary day a thousand years
ago.
From the Medieval period (1066 - 1485) through to
the 19th century, there is no evidence that 31
October was anything else other than the eve of All
Saints Day.
From the 19th Century to the present day, 31st
October has increasingly acquired a reputation as a
night on which ghost, witches, and fairies, are
especially active.
7. Evil spirits
The Celts believed that evil spirits came with the long hours of
winter darkness. They believed that on that night the barriers
between our world and the spirit world were at their weakest and
therefore spirits were most likely to be seen on earth.
8. Bonfires
The Celts built bonfires to frighten the spirits away, and feasted
and danced around the fires. The fires brought comfort to the
souls in purgatory* and people prayed for them as they held
burning straw up high.
9. jack o' lantern
A modern jack o' lantern is typically a
carved pumpkin, although originally typically
large turnips. It is associated chiefly with the
holiday of Samhain and Halloween and was
named after the phenomenon of strange light
flickering over peat bogs, called ignis
fatuus or jack o' lantern. In a jack o' lantern,
typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh
then scooped out; an image, usually a
monstrous face, is carved out, and the lid replaced.
It is typically seen during Halloween.
11. Apple bobbing, also known as bobbing for apples, is a game often
played at Halloween. The game is played by filling a tub or a large
basin with water and putting apples in the water. Because apples
are less dense than water, they will float at the surface. Players
(usually children) then try to catch one with their teeth. Use of
hands is not allowed, and often are tied behind the back to prevent
cheating. /DUCK - APPLE/
12. Trick or treat
Halloween was a time for making
mischief – many parts of England still
recognize Halloween as Mischief –
night- when children would knock on
doors demanding a treat/ trick or treat/
and people would disguise themselves
as witches, ghosts, kelpies and
spunkies, in order to obtain food and
money from nervous neighborhoods.
14. Dressing-up
The tradition of dressing in costume for
Halloween has both European and Celtic
roots. On Halloween, when it was believed
that ghosts came back to the earthly world,
people thought that they would encounter
ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being
recognized by these ghosts, people would
wear masks when they left their homes after
dark so that the ghosts would mistake them
for fellow spirits.