British Universities Film & Video Council

moving image and sound, knowledge and access

New additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 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/

Bloggingheads.tv
Founded in 2005, this American site pioneered split-screen video dialogues – or diavlogs – about politics and ideas. A central aspiration of the site is to present a diversity of views, rather than cleaving to a dominant ideology. The result is a lively forum that aims to help people see things from perspectives other than their own. The site features a number of different programmes, from Foreign Entanglements, which debates American foreign policy, to The DMZ, in which Liberal Bill Scher and conservative Matt Lewis discuss recent political events. The site’s main focus is political but culture and the arts, science, and socionomic issues are also represented. The site is well presented and the videos themselves have bookmarks to help navigation, which is helpful given the digressive nature of some of the material, such as this video where scientist John Horgan enthuses about why Jane Austen was like a scientist.

CST Online
This is the online presence of Critical Studies in Television, a journal which aims to promote and advance television as an academic discipline. The website is updated regularly and features news from the industry and academia, blogs, conference news, information on TV archives and resources and the latest research news. The site features blog entries by Television Studies academics, on a broad range of subjects, including this interesting piece by Lorna Jowett on the challenges of Teaching TV.

The Engineer
This website is the online version of the UK’s leading resource for the engineering industry, featuring videos, blogs, news, opinion pieces and job vacancies. The site features a searchable archive of over 30,000 articles, from Jan 2000 to the present. Elsewhere there are selective excursions into the journal’s deeper past, illustrated with high quality pdfs. This example from 1936 gives The Engineer’s sober assessment of the broadcasting technology being tested at the London television station in Alexandra Palace. Cutting-edge developments are also strongly represented, as in this recent item on a UK engineering firm’s development of a space harpoon, to tackle the problem of satellite debris.

The First Men on the Moon
This online interactive resource depicts the Apollo 11 lunar module ‘Eagle’ landing on the moon and includes original Apollo 11 spaceflight video footage, communication audio, mission control room conversations, text transcripts, and telemetry data, all of which have been synchronised into an integrated audiovisual experience. The resource presents the moon landing as experienced by the astronauts and the flight controllers in a way which captures the drama of the event as well as highlighting its significance as a feat of engineering. A timeline guides visitors to the crucial moments in the mission, including: computer alerts, low level fuel milestones, and the landing itself.

Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre
There are a number of useful resources available via SWAP’s Technology enhanced learning page, including audio, video and interactive materials, which are aimed at social policy teachers and students. The audio resources feature excerpts from an event based on social work in Northern Ireland which asked the question ‘To what extent is it the role of the academic community to affect change at policy and practice level (locally and nationally)?’. The video resources feature recordings from conferences, training events and workshops, offering tips from academics on how to engage students with social policy, to promote and discuss the role of technology in learning, and how to use digital stories in teaching.

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