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Gateway updates
Published: 9 February 2012The Atheist Experience TV Show This weekly cable access television show produced by the Atheist Community of Austin, Texas, is geared at a non-atheist audience. Every week it fields an unpredictable mix of live calls from atheists and believers alike and the hosts try (not always successfully) to ensure measured and reasoned discussion of the …
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New British Pathé website
Published: 31 January 2012That venerable newsreel company British Pathé has launched its new website at www.britishpathe.com with an emphasis in social networking. The entire archive can now be accessed via iPhone, iPad and other smart devices. The new search facility aims to make some 90,000 items easier to search and find, with improved dates and tagging – there …
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Guidance on using medical recordings in HE
Published: 17 January 2012JISC Digital Media has recently set up a website offering advice on legal, ethical and other issues relating to making and using clinical healthcare recordings for learning and teaching. The principles and related guidance materials were developed by the British Medical Recordings Task Force, a collaboration of cross-sector organisations, to encourage shared understandings across clinical …
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Latest Gateway Updates
Published: 12 January 2012The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,000 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. Close-Up This is a membership organisation that aims to make film culture and history accessible through its …
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Recent additions to the Gateway
Published: 21 December 2011Classical TV A channel of ever-changing videos representing the best classical performances from around the world. The range consists of live and as-live special events from the world’s great opera houses, theatres, and concert halls, together with a library of full-length videos of current and recent performing arts events, all available for streaming on a …
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YouTube for Schools launched
Published: 14 December 2011YouTube for Schools has been launched in the US amd aims to provide schools with free access to educational videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. More than 400,000 educational videos are included, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve …
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UK launch of EUscreen portal
Published: 6 December 2011The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), together with Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), were proud to present the UK launch of the redesigned EUscreen portal as part of BUFVC’s ‘Key to More Access‘ forum held at the Geological Society in London on 2 December 2011. The showcase presentation by Dr Sian Barber …
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Recent additions to the Gateway
Published: 30 November 2011Backdoor Broadcasting Company A mobile audio webcasting service that specialises in recording academic conferences, lectures, seminars, etc and re-broadcasting them online on demand. The web archive offers content from hundreds of academics, including such luminaries as philosopher Slavoj Zizek, Shakespeare scholar Richard Wilson, historian Sue Vice, musician and activist Billy Bragg and writer Tariq Ali. …
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The return of ‘Screen Research’
Published: 22 November 2011Using the new Scoop.it carapace, the defunct Screen Research network lives again. It now offers a dyamic presentation of the latest media stories of interest to education and research. With the stated aim of bringing together ‘information on researching all aspects of the moving image, from pre-cinema to Internet TV’, this news aggregator site is …
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Google Doodle honours Louis Daguerre
Published: 18 November 2011A Google Doodle has been created to honour Louis Daguerre (1787–1851), who devised the daguerreotype, the first successful form of permanent photography. Those interested in the development of early cinema may be interested in Virgilio Tosi’s groundbreaking book Cinema Before Cinema, and the accompanying DVD The Origins of Scientific Cinematography, both of which are published …
