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- http://www.vtstutorials.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- AV services, Copyright, Information Sources
This website offers free tutorials aimed at helping those in Higher Education develop Internet research skills. The site includes three online tutorials created in conjunction with JISC Digital Media, designed to help students, teachers and support staff to find, evaluate and use still images, audio, and video and moving image material, considering in the process questions of copyright and licensing, as well as more technical/practical questions of usage and application and also giving pointers to sites which provide content with the education sector in mind, such as itunes U. In addition to the general tutorials, users can search for tutorials tailored to their particular subject.
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- http://www.94elements.com/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
94 Elements is a global filmmaking project, exploring our lives through the lens of the elements. Users can submit their own films dedicated to Elements (so far there are five) and Compounds. The next stage of the project will use live data from across the web to "create a range of interactive tools and visualisations exploring our use and exploitation of the elements".
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- https://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums
The UK Web Archive is based at the British Library. It collects, makes accessible and preserves web resources of scholarly and cultural importance from the UK domain. As of February 2012 nearly 10,000 websites have been archived there. Contributors to the UK Web Archive seek permission from the website owner for every website it archives, despite this being costly and time-consuming. Users can see how a website has evolved over time by accessing the snapshots ("instances") that the archive takes at regular intervals. The archive is free to view, accessed directly from the Web itself and, since archiving began in 2004, has continued to grow at a rate of several hundred per month. Sites can be searched by name and category and viewed in a number of dynamic visualisations including N-grams, tag clouds and 3-D walls. Users can also nominate sites for inclusion.
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- http://www.open.ac.uk/library/library-resources/ou-study-materials
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Databases
The Open University online library catalogue contains details of the whole range of resources produced to support OU courses since they began in 1971. By using the "Format" drop-down menu on the advanced search screen of the Library Catalogue link it is possible to find all the audio, video or computer materials produced for courses in a particular subject area. Entries are quite detailed in the amount of content information they give. Print and audio-visual materials from modules currently offered by the Open University are available to browse in the Library, and archive materials from discontinued modules are available to view by appointment. The OpenLearn website gives free online access to some OU teaching materials.
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- https://science-television.com/home/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Agriculture, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Engineering, General Science, Genetics, Medicine, Physics
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Organisations, Producers/Broadcasters
The Association Science & Télévision (AST) is a group of independent producers working for 37 different production companies based in France. These companies produce films in all genres but a large portion of their output is devoted to scientific productions. Together, they produce the vast majority of scientific programming broadcast on television in France, much of which also circulates abroad. The website (in French and English versions) gives details of the member companies and the association’s activities, together with a catalogue of the films they have produced (searchable by title or producer), with links to the producer’s site for further filmographic information.
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- http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Radio Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, TV/Radio listings
RadioListings is an episode guide to the speech based programmes broadcast by the BBC, compiled by enthusiast Paul Wells. There are details for some musical programmes, and some listings for other stations, but the main focus is on scripted speech. Currently there are details for over 33,000 programmes, from 1949 to the present day, though the bulk are from 1997 onwards when the BBC put its schedules online. The main index by the programme name but more limited searching is also possible by credits and date of broadcast. The database is updated weekly and revised daily. The majority of data is obtained via a feed from the BBC and this is supplemented by information from other sources.
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- http://bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Media Studies
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- Information Sources
Chris Wilmott’s blog provides up-to-date information on multimedia materials of value in the teaching of bioethics. There is also a related resource, Bioethic in NewsFilmOnline (http://nfobioethics.wordpress.com/).
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- http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/News-and-Events/Audio
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Agriculture, Archaeology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Environmental Studies, General Science, Geography, Geology, Medicine, Physics, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
A number of interviews with staff from GNS Science talking about topical issues on Radio New Zealand, available as audio files or podcasts. GNS Science is a New Zealand government-owned research organisation offering independent scientific and technical advice in areas including: assessing the risks and managing the impacts of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and tsunamis; evaluating and managing oil, gas, geothermal, groundwater, and mineral resources using earth sciences; applying isotope chemistry and nuclear technology in biological and medical research, industrial processes, archaeology, fisheries and atmospheric research, oceanography, geology, hydrology, geochemistry, geothermal research and exploration, and environmental monitoring.
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- http://edublogawards.com/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Blogs
The Edublog Awards website can be a good way of discovering new blogs relating to education. The Awards, now in their sixth year, can also be used to see how blogs and other electronic educational tools have developed over that time. There are 19 categories in the 2009 Awards, covering aspects such as best educational use of audio/video/ audiovisuals and best educational use of a virtual world/social networking service.
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- http://www.ouworldwide.com/webshopclosed.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Education
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Distributors, Producers/Broadcasters, Video Sources
In May 2016 the Open University Worldwide online store posted the following:
"Unfortunately Open University Worldwide Limited has decided that product sales are no longer viable given the reduced funding to Higher Education institutions and diminishing demand for the products we have traditionally stocked. At present the Open University Students Association (OUSA) will continue to sell the “Good Study Guide”, and we are in discussion with other possible distributors to continue to make The Open University’s products available for purchase. As soon as we have any information on other channels of distribution we will update this notice."
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