Friday Gateway updates

The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,000 websites relating to moving image 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.

BAFTA Guru
The new hub incorporates a history of the Academy, interviews and details of the BAFTA Awards. The records of BAFTA winners from 1995 to the present are currently available on the site. The extensive online video archive includes interviews and tributes to a wide variety of industry figures including Tilda Swinton, Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Mira Nair, Quentin Tarantino, Bryan Forbes, Imelda Staunton, Joel and Ethan Coen, Meryl Streep, Miranda hart; composers such as Michael Nyman and David Arnold; and many more as well as items devoted to such popular TV shows like Doctor Who, Coronation Street and the adventures of Wallace and Gromit.

Chemistry Vignettes
These short vignettes, the result of a collaborative project between the chemistry schools of the universities of East Anglia and Southampton, are annotated and interactive highlights covering critical concepts from chemistry screencasts (digital recordings of the evolving image on the screen during a lecture presentation synchronised with the speaker’s audio narration). They are available in three formats: online viewing as video files; downloadable SCORM folders for interactivity with a learning management system (e.g. Blackboard); interactivity-free but mobile-friendly .mp4 files. The vignettes are licensed under the Creative Commons for open access by the academic community, and the website encourages evaluative feedback.

Infocobuild
Infocobuild gathers together links to online resources that are educational and informative, such as audio/video lectures, documentary films, eBooks, and materials for learning languages, in order to facilitate individual and classroom learning.The website is a kind of directory service that allows anyone to submit a link and, after evaluation, posts it to be shared with others. The site consists of nine sections: Free Education (audio/video courses/lectures), News Media, Selected Videos (free streaming/podcasting sites), Radio Services (Internet radio stations offering art talk, music, sports news and talk, business news, local and world news), Learning Languages, Fun Brain Games, Free Software, Useful Websites, and Books and Films( films based on books, books related to films, and web documents related to the books or films).

Learning to Teach Online
The Learning to Teach Online project is a free professional development resource from COFA (The College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales) designed to help teachers from any discipline, whether experienced in online teaching or not, to gain a working understanding of successful online teaching pedagogies that they can apply in their own teaching situation. Each ‘episode’ deals with a particular pedagogical issue, technological tool, or case study, and consists of a video and pdf document.

Sciencestage.com
ScienceStage.com has the stated aim of being, ‘the universal online portal for science, advanced teaching, and research’.  It allows scientists, lecturers, academics, students, and practitioners from all fields to present and share ideas and findings through video streaming, audio streaming, and text documents, and to make use of community functions such as chat, email, and blogs. Video and audio clips – lectures, interviews and documentaries – come from a wide variety of sources and are accessible for free streaming via a good subject index, although very prominent advertising is at times a distraction.

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