Recent additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway
Published: 7 November 2013The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,450 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/
Ask the Techies
This series of podcasts and accompanying videos explains aspects of technology, specialising in multimedia. The focus is on Macs but the podcast deals with PC Windows issues as well. It began in 2005 and the last podcast was in 2011 but the archive of 150 episodes is still available. The site requires Blip Player but the series is also available on YouTube.
Kleist, Education and Violence
A series of podcasts produced by Warwick University and presented by Dr Seán Allan from the department of German Studies along with Professor Ricarda Schmidt andDr Steven Howe, University of Exeter. The podcasts consider Kleist’s novels and novellas in the light of how he treats education and how this links to the representation of violence in his work. There is also discussion of Kleist’s relationships with women and a look at the intellectual traditions which influenced his work.
Little Atoms
A podcast “based around ideas of the enlightenment” which promotes science, freedom of expression, scepticism, secular humanism, and often ends up dealing with the converse of these values: superstition, religious fundamentalism and authoritarianism. The show has featured numerous guests from the worlds of science, literature, philosophy and politics, including Frank Furedi, A.C. Grayling, Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Meades to name but a few. The approach is often polemical but the result is always informative and entertaining. The programmes are free to download. The series is also broadcast on Resonance FM.
Newton Channel
This collection of science videos is produced by Newton, a public service science channel, and hosted by the Guardian newspaper in a dedicated space on its website. The videos are arranged according to broad subject areas, including Physics, Mathematics, DNA, Technology and the Environment. The videos have high production values and are made with the aim of communicating scientific news, ideas, debates and controversies to a wide audience. Most of the films are around 15 minutes long, although some are shorter, and some, particularly those featuring lectures or talks are considerably longer.
UK Agriculture
This site is run by the Living Countryside charity, with the aim of widening understanding about the role of agriculture in the countryside. The site is clearly laid out and easy to search, providing a wide range of freely available content, including photographs and videos covering arable crops, forage crops and livestock. Elsewhere the site provides a useful monthly digest of the latest agricultural news, a guide to biodiversity projects showing how land managers are caring for the countryside, and a range of educational resources which includes a nicely produced history of the countryside series, which, through the use of 3D images and animations, tells the history of agriculture in Britain from 13,000 BC to the present day.