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Build an Alien Chatbot Livestream

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Build an Alien Chatbot Livestream

The 1950s ushered in excitement about outer space and, incidentally, UFO sightings and conspiracies about alien life. The decade also brought about a new theory of artificial intelligence—computer scientist Alan Turing proposed that if a computer was able to fool a human into believing it was human, the computer should be considered “intelligent”.

No computer has been able to pass the Turing test yet, but what if a bot could fool a human into believing it was an alien?

During our livestream on Thursday at 2pm EST, we will teach you how to build an alien chatbot using Python, step-by-step. By the end, you’ll have created a chatbot that may not pass a true Turing test, but it just might pass an “E.T.uring” test.

In order to follow along with the stream on your own computer, open the following link(s):

Facebook Messenger Analysis

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Facebook Messenger Analysis

Have you ever wondered about all the personal data that Facebook collects on its over 2 billion users? It’s time to harness the information Facebook has on you for your own good and discover some insights.

Tune into our livestream this Thursday at 1pm EDT, where we’ll show you how to download and analyze your Facebook messenger chat data and get a better understanding of your relationships with your friends.

In order to follow along with the stream on your own computer and using your own Facebook data, complete the below steps before Thursday at 1pm EDT:

  • Install Python and Jupyter Notebooks on your computer with Anaconda / Miniconda (see below for further instructions).
  • Download your Facebook Messenger Chat Data
    • Go to www.Facebook.com and click the arrow on the top right to access your “Settings”
    • Click on “Your Facebook Information”
    • Click “Download Your Information”
    • Update the “Format” field to “JSON” and the “Media Quality” field to “Low”
    • Click “Deselect All” on the right-hand side
    • Click the check-box for “Messages”
    • Click “Create File”. Facebook will notify you when the file is ready for download
    • Download your file

Weren’t able to download your Facebook Messenger data in time for the livestream? No worries! Download our sample data to follow along live, and analyze your personal data later.

Installation: Miniconda

This video details how to download and install Miniconda.

To install Miniconda, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Miniconda download page: Miniconda

  2. Select the Python 3.6 installer for your computer’s operating system.

  3. Locate the installer that you downloaded using Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS).

  4. Run the installer. Use the following instructions based on your computer’s operating system:

Mac OS:

  1. You may receive a notification about XCode requiring additional component. Click “Install” and enter your password to proceed.

  2. Open your terminal and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the installer. Type the following command in the terminal and press “Return” on your keyboard:

bash miniconda-filename.sh

miniconda-filename.sh is a fictional file name in the example above. Your file name will look something like Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh.

3. Follow all instructions in the terminal (you can press Enter as-needed and type yes when necessary).

Windows:

  1. Follow the installation instructions provided by the installer.

Was the Installation Successful?

To test whether your installation was successful (regardless of your computer’s operating system), type the following command into your terminal:

conda list

You should see a list of all the packages that Miniconda installed. If you’re on a computer that uses Windows, you may have to first navigate to the folder where you installed Miniconda for the conda list command to function properly.

Congrats! You now have Miniconda (with Python 3.6) installed on your computer, and you are ready for some data science!

Installing Jupyter

To install Jupyter with Anaconda / Miniconda, enter the following on the command line:

conda install jupyter

You may need to enter y to confirm the install. conda will install Jupyter, an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.

To learn more about conda, visit the Conda documentation at the following link:

Required Data Science Packages

To make the most of Anaconda / Miniconda in our analysis, you’ll need the following data science packages. Use conda install to install them.

For example:

conda install pandas

Go Behind-the-Scenes of Our Curriculum Hackathon (and Pick the Winner)

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Go Behind-the-Scenes of Our Curriculum Hackathon (and Pick the Winner)

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Update: And the winner of our curriculum hackathon is… Alienbot: Build a Python Chatbot! Thanks to all who voted.

Codecademy’s Curriculum Team recently held our bi-annual internal hackathon. From 8:30 am to 6:30 pm, we hacked, snacked on dim sum, and hacked some more!

We’ve done internal hackathons before, but this time, we want to try something a little different. This time, the hackathon winner will be judged by (drum roll…) YOU! 😱

But before diving into the projects we built and opening the vote, we’ll explain what a hackathon actually is, and why you might want to take part in one near you.

If you want to jump straight to the projects:

  1. Intro to A-Frame
  2. Build and Host Your Personal Site
  3. Intro to Web Audio API
  4. Alienbot: Build a Python Chatbot
  5. Intro to Scratch
  6. Learn HTML Canvas
  7. Animate Your Name with Stimulus
  8. Intro to Logic Gates
  9. Beyond Programming: Product Manager
  10. Regular Expression Applet
  11. Codecademy Discord Server
  12. Circuit Playground Express
  13. Codecademy Zine

What is a hackathon?

A hackathon is an event, usually hosted by a tech company, organization, or school, during which programmers, designers, and anyone else who might be interested can get together and collaborate on a project—typically within the span of one day.

Hackathons usually start with one or more presentations about the event. Then participants suggest ideas and form teams based on individual interests and skills.

After teams are created, the main work of the hackathon begins. The collaboration and creation stage can last anywhere from several hours to several days. At the end of a hackathon, there is usually a series of demonstrations in which each group presents their projects. And after careful consideration, winners are announced.

Over the past few years, hackathons have taken the tech industry by storm. Companies like Spotify and Airbnb, and schools like the City University of New York, organize hackathons regularly.

Why? Well, in the day-to-day of learning and/or working, it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. As an organization grows, the more removed it gets from how it started—as a collection of people in a room together making cool stuff. Hackathons are a way to return to those roots, with focused time dedicated solely to building something new.

At Codecademy, we hold a hackathon twice a year. It is a day to flex our creative muscles, challenge ourselves, and learn new skills. We get to work with people we normally don’t get to work with and compete to win cash prize and, more importantly, bragging rights.

So let’s see what the Curriculum team built in a day! And don’t forget to vote at the bottom of the blog post for your favorite project.

1. Intro to A-Frame (Lesson)

A lesson that teaches you the basics of building VR scenes using A-Frame, an open-source web framework maintained by developers from Supermedium and Google.

  • Team: Zoe Bachman, Natalia Rodriguez, Alex Kuntz
  • Demo: (Lesson)

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Build a VR scene in the browser and view it using a Google Cardboard 😮

2. Build and Host Your Personal Site (Lesson)

Everyone needs a personal website. In this lesson, you can create your own personal website in the classic Codecademy lesson format.

  • Team: Alex Clark, Emily Giurleo, Ian Munro, Jack Ratner & Tracy Teague
  • What’s next? Share your website from a Codecademy-hosted address.

3. Intro to Web Audio API (Lesson)

In this lesson, you’ll learn the fundamentals of creating sound from scratch using the Web Audio API. Web Audio can be used for everything from simple sound playback or sound effects to complex synthesizers and drum machines!

  • Team: Ian Munro
  • Demo: (Lesson)

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Enjoy the soothing tones of J.S. Bach.

4. Alienbot: Build a Python Chatbot (Project)

Build a basic chatbot using Python and Regex while attempting to pass an “E.T.uring” test. The project also serves as a soft introduction to artificial intelligence.

  • Team: Mariel Frank & Kyla Brown
  • Demo: (Project)

alienbot

Can you pass the “E.T.uring” test? 👽

5. Intro to Scratch (Lesson)

Scratch is a platform built and maintained by the MIT Media Lab that allows people to code using a visual programming language and share projects with others in the Scratch community.

  • Team: Mike Jewett
  • Demo: (Lesson)

6. Learn HTML Canvas (Lessons + Projects)

A course with 2 lessons and 2 projects introducing the HTML5 element and how to interact with it using JavaScript. Recreate a work of art and draw your own optical illusion!

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Bonus points if you know what Beautiful Soup is.

7. Animate Your Name with Stimulus (Lesson)

Stimulus is a small JavaScript framework for adding behavior to existing HTML code. At Basecamp, where it originated, it is used to enhance server-side rendered HTML.

  • Team: Adam Kaczmarek
  • Demo: (Lesson)

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An update of the original Animate Your Name Lesson.

8. Intro to Logic Gates (Lesson + Project)

Computers can do amazing things: play chess, trade stocks, transmit messages across the world. At the lowest level, even the most advanced computer is responding to signals from an electrical current. Logic gates are responsible for determining how those electrical currents combine and diverge. These combinations form the basis for more complicated logic, but it all starts with 1’s and 0’s.

  • Team: Patrick Kovach-Long and Laura Breiman
  • Demo: (Lesson) (Project)

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An interactive applet that helps you understand the differences between AND and OR. ⚡️

9. Beyond Programming: Product Manager (Video + Quiz)

We shot an interview with Josh Boggs, a Product Manager at Spotify with the purposes of introducing lesser-known, tech-enabled career options to Codecademy grads.

  • Team: Nick Duckwiler & Cole Romano
  • Demo: (Video) (Quiz)
Introducing lesser-known, tech-enabled career options to Codecademy learners.

10. Regular Expression Applet

A regular expression (regex) is, in theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a sequence of characters that define a search pattern.

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An interactive applet to learn and practice regex.

11. Codecademy Discord Server

Discord is a chat application designed for the gaming community, that specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users. Its simplistic voice chat feature might be beneficial for learners to help one another debug and code review.

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hello repl.it discord kappa 👾

12. Circuit Playground Express (Lesson + Project)

Plug in and play, right on Codecademy. Ladyada and Phil at Adafruit suggested that we build a CircuitPython course so here I am, trying to make that happen. In this lesson, you will learn about Circuit Playground Express, the perfect introduction to electronics and programming. There is also a project where you build an “808” Drum Machine with… fruits!

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It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s an electronics course?! Plug in and play. Right on Codecademy.

13. Codecademy Zine

Last but not least, we’ve made a zine… together!

  • Team: Sonny & Co. (Curriculum, Krista, Toby, Guyen & Cody)
  • Demo: (Zine)

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Thank you to everyone who contributed ❤

Time to vote for your favorite projects!

We hope you enjoyed all the hack projects. We had a blast making them. Let us know what you think in the comments below and check back in a week to see the winner.

And now it’s your turn!

There are hackathons happening every month and there might be one coming up in your city. Simply throwing yourself out there and getting to an event is the hardest and scariest part, but we promise you, it will one of the most rewarding experiences in your programming journey.

Whether you are new to programming or an experienced coder, check out Eventbrite and Meetup to find upcoming hackathons around you and sign up today.

P.S. There might be a hackathon for Codecademy learners right around the corner, so stay tuned. 😜

Ask a Software Engineer: Airbnb Edition 🏡

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Ask a Software Engineer: Airbnb Edition 🏡
A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer (via Life of Luba)

With Airbnb came a revolution of sorts in the world of vacation travel and culture. We sat down with Luba Yudasina, a YouTuber, an opera singer, and a Software Engineer on the Airbnb’s Homes Platform team, to discuss software engineering and her programming journey—from Codecademy to Airbnb!

Hey Luba, let’s start with the basics! What does a Software Engineer on the Platform team do at Airbnb?

Homes Platform’s mission is to create the building blocks to power all Homes categories. Any project undertaken by our team should be reusable and extensible in some way. This means that as a backend engineer, I have a lot of opportunities to work on impactful technical projects that create systems and services to support Homes, as well as collaborate across teams to come up with the best architectural decisions and designs.

Recently, our team wrote a blog post on classifying Room Types into categories using Machine Learning and computer vision. The room-type classification problem largely resembles the ImageNet classification problem, except our team’s model outcomes are customized room-types.

After a few experiments with various models, the team chose ResNet50 due to its good balance between model performance and computation time. To make it compatible with our use case, we added two extra fully connected layers and a Softmax activation in the end.

Categorizing listing photos into room types (via the Airbnb Engineering & Data Science blog)

What languages/frameworks do you use at Airbnb?

At Airbnb we use Ruby, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Swift, Ruby on Rails, React for frontend, iOS and Android for native development.

Let’s rewind a little bit. Coming from a chemical engineering background in college, how did you make the switch into programming?

I went to the University of Waterloo in Canada—a university with the biggest co-op program in the world. Co-op means that to obtain a bachelor’s degree you must complete a certain number of internships. If you are in Engineering at Waterloo, you must complete 5 internships to graduate.

In my first and second years, I interned at chemical engineering companies and afterwards I couldn’t see myself working in the field full-time. That’s why I’m particularly grateful that I studied at Waterloo: if not for co-op, I probably would not have realized I didn’t want to work in chemical engineering until getting a full-time job after graduation.

I happened to have a lot of friends in Computer Science and Software Engineering right when I realized Chem Eng wasn’t for me. They really encouraged me to try coding, and when I decided to follow their lead I never looked back! My first online programming course was Web Development on Codecademy 🙂

“It’s a really cool time to be a software engineer and even cooler to be a female software engineer, because this is the time when women start to embrace their own unique identities and be ok with not being ‘one of the dudes.'”
-Luba Yudasina

How did you land an internship at Yelp?

When I decided I wanted to learn computer science on my own, my goal was to get an internship in the field because working as a software engineer at a tech company would be the best test to really know if it was for me.

I happened to be in Munich, Germany on academic exchange for a whole year when I was learning how to code, so I hustled as much as I could while being there to get experience to learn quicker and have something to put down on my tech resume.

Almost immediately after arriving in Germany, I got a part time job as a developer at a game publishing company. I had a good friend in Computer Science at my German university: her and I ended up working on an Android app as a side project, etc. When I was ready, I started preparing for technical interviews. I then leveraged my network to refer me to companies and do mock technical interviews with me.

Yelp was really random though—a Yelp recruiter looked at my LinkedIn profile and didn’t even message me, but I messaged them anyway asking about internship opportunities, and that’s how I got my interview there!

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Airbnb HQ in San Franciso

What is an essential app/item in your day-to-day?

Code searching! A lot of software engineering is problem solving and a lot of it is understanding other people’s code and the reasoning behind writing it a certain way. Searching through the codebases is almost essential to my day to day. Whenever I build something new or build on top of already existing tech, I need to understand how it works and is written, and code search is vital to this.

At Airbnb we use Google’s Codesearch for these purposes, but developers (myself included) also frequently use their IDEs to search for relevant code. I mostly use RubyMine or IntelliJ (depending on the codebase I’m working with).

In your videos, you’ve mentioned the intersection of gender and technology. Can you speak a bit more about that?

It’s a really cool time to be a software engineer and even cooler to be a female software engineer, because this is the time when women start to embrace their own unique identities and be ok with not being “one of the dudes.”

I think it’s particularly important to redefine the stereotypes, and I hope that with my own example I can show young girls and women interested in the field that you don’t have to give up your feminine side to be a software engineer and still be into fashion, or makeup, or art (I personally sing opera) and have other interests outside of coding and be successful in the field.

Before we wrap up, do you have anything else you would like to say to our learners?

Don’t be discouraged, learn and absorb as much as you can! If you don’t understand a concept or can’t build a project right away, know that with practice, perseverance and concentration you will get there!

Take advantage of such amazing tools as Codecademy that are there for you to take and learn. Learning anything new can be frustrating, but knowing that you can do it, staying curious, asking questions and not losing your motivation is the key to success.

Huge shoutout to Luba for this insightful interview. It’s always incredibly moving to see a Codecademy learner go on to do bigger things. Go subscribe to her YouTube channel, Life of Luba.

And thank you to the whole Homes Platform/Engineering team at Airbnb for the support. Check out their wonderful open source projects on airbnb.io.

Learning With: ‘The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak’

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Learning With: ‘The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak’

Before reading the article:

What do you know about hummingbirds? Have you ever seen one?

Quickly, think of some adjectives to describe hummingbirds.

Did your list include words like: colorful, sweet, melodious, graceful, small? How about fierce? Or aggressive? What about downright mean?

Next, watch the ScienceTake video “How the Hummingbird Bill Evolved for Battle,” above and respond to the following questions:

What did you notice about hummingbirds in this video? What stood out or surprised you about their behavior? What questions do you have about what is going on in this video? What more would you like to know?

Now, read the article, “The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak,” and answer the following questions:

1. Why does James Gorman, the author, start the article with a poem? And why does he say “it’s best to avoid most poetry” about hummingbirds?

2. Why have do poets and scientists have a “blind spot” about the hummingbirds in nature? How did the Aztecs differ in their understanding of the colorful bird?

3. How have hummingbird beaks evolved over time? What are the benefits of their design?

4. What are some of the highlights of the 10 years of research on hummingbirds by Alejandro Rico-Guevara and his colleagues at the University of California?

5. What are some of the ways the hummingbird uses its bill to fight off rival males?

6. What other aspects of the hummingbird’s design and behavior are being studied by scientists? Which did you find most interesting?

Finally, tell us more about what you think:

— What did you learn about hummingbirds from the article? What was most fascinating? Does the video and article make you more curious about hummingbirds — or birds in general? What would you like to know more about?

— What have been your experiences with birds? Do you have a favorite type? Does the article make you view birds differently? If so, how?

— Mr. Gorman writes:

The Aztecs loved war, and they loved the beauty of the birds as well. It seems they didn’t find any contradiction in the marriage of beauty and bloodthirsty aggression.

Do you agree with the Aztec’s view of the hummingbird? Can you think of other animals that combine beauty and fierceness?

— The article begins with a poem by John Vance Cheney and ends with one by D.H. Lawrence. Which do you think is more accurate? What is your favorite line in either, and why?

— Write an original poem about hummingbirds. It can be of any length or style and can celebrate or disapprove of the beautiful but complicated bird?

How Do You Define ‘Family’?

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How Do You Define ‘Family’?

Is your definition of a “normal family” two married parents and their biological children living together under one roof? If not, what do you think a “family” is — or can be? Who is your family?

What do you think holds a family together? Is it biological relationships? Love and support? Sharing the same home?

In “What’s a ‘Normal’ Family, Anyway?” Claire Haug writes:

It’s a typical Thursday night and my family is gathered in the kitchen of my childhood home. There’s me, freshly returned from college, helping my mom set the table; my half brother, also home on break, debating our father about politics; and my half siblings’ mother chiding my half sister for Snapchatting with her high school friends.

If it took you a minute to process the relationships I just described, don’t worry — you are far from the only one. I’ll give my best simplified description of our family: my mother, my half siblings’ mother and our father were friends living in the Bay Area in the ’90s. At the time, both women were in their 30s and wanted to have children — but neither had a long-term partner. My father, a gay man and also partnerless, agreed to be their donor and, if things worked out, involved in their children’s lives.

My brother was born in March 1997, followed by me in October of the same year, and my half sister came along three years later. As a child I got strange looks when I told people that my brother was seven months older than me. But I just thought of us as a family that happened to live in three separate households.

Even growing up in Berkeley, Calif., which is generally known for being culturally diverse and politically progressive, my family structure has struck people as unconventional. I’ve had trouble explaining it to just about everyone, including friends I’ve known for years and financial aid administrators. It seems hard for people to get that you can have a family with parents who were never married, and that some women might choose to conceive and raise a child without a husband.

But unconventional families like mine are becoming increasingly common: the number of two-parent households has been in steady decline since the 1960s, dropping from 87 percent of households in 1960 to 69 percent in 2014, according to the Pew Research Center. The report notes that “the declining share of children living in what is often deemed a ‘traditional’ family has been largely supplanted by the rising shares of children living with single or cohabiting parents.”

She continues:

Family should be, above all else, about love — I hope we can all agree on that. Perhaps it’s time for us to prioritize finding love through community and friendships in the same way many of us prioritize finding romantic love. Maybe one day that will be conventional.

Students, read the entire article, then tell us:

— What does “family” mean to you? Do you count only those bound to you by blood or legal ties, or do friends or other kinds of communities also fill some of the traditional role of family for you?

— Who is your family, however you define that word? What role does your family play in your life in general?

— Ms. Haug writes:

But can anyone really say their experience of family was perfect? My parents have shown me that friendships can be just as important as romantic relationships, and that it’s possible to live a fulfilling life without defining your life by a single long-term relationship. How could that be bad?

Do you agree? Do you think friendships can be just as important as romantic relationships? Should having a single long-term relationship be the universal goal for living a fulfilling life?

— Does society need a more expansive definition of “family,” in your opinion? Why or why not?

Students 13 and older are invited to comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff, but please keep in mind that once your comment is accepted, it will be made public.

Book Covers

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Book Covers

Yes, we’re inviting you to judge your books by their covers.

What are your favorites? Why? Consider books read to you as a child, books you have been assigned for school, and books you’ve read on your own. Which have the best covers? How well do those cover illustrations capture the essence of that book’s ideas, themes, characters, setting, plot or tone?

Tell us about your favorites in the comments, then read a related article, “How a Book Gets to the Perfect Cover.”

Find many more ways to use our Picture Prompt feature in this lesson plan.

Word + Quiz: fetid

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Word + Quiz: fetid

Note: Our Sixth Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge is underway. It will run until Feb. 18.

: offensively malodorous; having a bad smell

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The word fetid has appeared in 26 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 21 in “In Sweden, Trash Heats Homes, Powers Buses and Fuels Taxi Fleets” by Amy Yee:

LINKOPING, Sweden — In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs five tons of trash. As a technician in a control room maneuvers the spiderlike crane, the claw drops its moldering harvest down a 10-story shaft into a boiler that is hotter than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. A fetid odor emanates from plastic trash bags discarded by hundreds of thousands of homes.

The process continues 24 hours a day to help fuel this power plant run by Tekniska Verken, a municipal government company in Linköping, a city 125 miles south of Stockholm. It is one of Sweden’s 34 “waste-to-energy” power plants. Instead of burning coal or gas, this power plant burns trash.

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Film Club: ‘The Dispossessed’

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Film Club: ‘The Dispossessed’

What responsibility do we have to help those around us?

“The Dispossessed” is a seven-minute film that touches on themes of healing, faith and helping others. It profiles Mohammed Shafi Hazari, a traditional faith healer in Kashmir, who exorcises patients who believe they’ve been possessed. But amid the backdrop of violent conflict, he more often lends his services to treat another malady that plagues his neighbors: depression.

Students

1. Watch the short film above. While you watch, you might take notes using our Film Club Double-Entry Journal (PDF) to help you remember specific moments.

2. After watching, think about these questions:

• What moments in this film stood out for you? Why?

• Were there any surprises? Anything that challenged what you know — or thought you knew?

• What messages, emotions or ideas will you take away from this film? Why?

• What other questions do you have?

3. An additional challenge: What connections can you make between this film and your own life or experience? Why? Does this film remind you of anything else you’ve read or seen? If so, how and why?

4. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)

5. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting another comment. Use the “Reply” button or the @ symbol to address that student directly.

6. To learn more, read “The Dispossessed.” Musa Syeed writes:

As I filmed Mr. Hazari, I initially wanted to know after each treatment: exorcism or placebo? I wanted him to confirm something spectacular was happening. But as I watched patients eager to feel the healing in his breath, his hand, his dull knife, I bit my tongue. Here was a man who amid conflict and violence invites strangers to sit with him, to listen to their problems, to offer some hope that, together, they might solve them. And what do you call that, other than a miracle?

_________

More?

• See all the films in this series.

• Read our list of practical teaching ideas, along with responses from students and teachers, for how you can use these documentaries in the classroom.

• Our next Film Club will take place on Thursday, Feb. 14.

Graduation Day: The Students of Food and Nutrition

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Graduation Day: The Students of Food and Nutrition

It was a Wednesday afternoon in December, when the students of La Trobe’s Bachelor of Food and Nutrition put on their graduation gowns, preparing for the handover of their long-awaited prize. Family and friends buzzed around the campus grounds, laughing, shaking hands and offering endless supplies of heartfelt hugs.

Two graduates smilingThere’s few prouder days in a person’s life than graduation day – the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. Nobody said university would be easy, but this group of young students pulled through. A number of them are planning postgraduate study, with their sights set on a career in dietetics. The atmosphere was overflowing with optimism and excitement for the future.

Graduate receiving award

The Bachelor of Food and Nutrition is available exclusively online through Open Universities Australia, and only started running a few years ago. These graduates are the first to gain this degree, paving the way for future online students, whose lifestyles call for a more flexible study arrangement, but with the same high-quality learning. While online study may have felt foreign in the beginning, the students embraced the technology, and came out on the other side, successful, and equipped for the workforce.

Graduate smiling

To these bright young graduates, we say congratulations, and best of luck. We’re confident that you’ll bring into the health industry your expertise, commitment and passion.

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