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- https://www.alternativeprojections.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Information Sources, Lists, Web Links
Resource devoted to experimental film and filmmakers in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1980. The website’s content is the culmination of three years of research into the archives of film venues and organizations, the recording of 35 oral histories, and the creation of a database, which catalogues the films, exhibitions, organisations, and people active during this prolific period in experimental film and video making.
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- https://www.exploratorium.edu
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Art, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, General Science, History, Mathematics, Nature, Physics, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Web Links
A public learning laboratory, The Exploratorium, is devoted to just that: exploring the world through science, art and human perception. Their mission is ‘to create inquiry-based experiences that transform learning worldwide’ and perhaps more importantly their vision is ‘a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, question answers, and understand the world around them’. The museum makes available a vast range of, video programmes, organised by subjects, including: Arts (532 videos), Astronomy and Space (220), Biology (331), Chemistry (97), History (35), Mathematics (19), Nature of Science (13), Perception (55), Physics (215), and Social Science (575). There is also a Websites section with over 35, 000 pages of content, which can be explored by subject too.
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- https://workingclasshistory.com/category/podcast/
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- Social Sciences
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- American Studies, History, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
Who makes History? This resource, launched in 2014, is dedicated to recording and popularising people’s history, that is, the history of ‘everyday women, men, people of colour, migrants, indigenous people, LGTB people, disabled people, workers, the unemployed, housewives and single mothers, as opposed to the history of rich and powerful individuals, kings, queens and politicians’. The collection of podcasts presented here tell the stories of past struggles which still resonate today. Each episode has a ‘Footnotes’ section, which offers links to relevant resources including short videos, articles written at the time, and websites. Events covered so far are: the Grunwick strike of East African and Asian women workers in London 1976-8; The Angry Brigade, Britain’s first urban guerrilla group; Anti-Nazi youth movements in World War II; Workmates: organising with agency workers on London Underground; Industrial Workers of the World in the US, 1905-1918 and 1918-1950s; The West Virginia mine Wars, 1902-1922; The Vietnam War strike wave; Spanish Civil War; The League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit; Women in the Miners strike; Peterloo massacre with Mike Leigh; Women in the early IWW (Industrial Workers of the World Union).
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- http://www.birdlife.org/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Nature
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- Databases, Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Web Links
BirdLife groups together over 120 organisations worldwide that strive to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity. Their website includes a Data Zone section which presents a wealth of scientific data on the world’s bird species and the sites critical to their conservation. This information can be easily viewed at national and territorial level using the Country Profiles searching capabilities; there is also a Case Studies section, and a Seabird Tracking Database, which contains the largest collection of seabird data in the world. This data can be searched and viewed within the site, but access to the actual data is restricted.
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- http://edn.network/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Podcasting, Web Links
EDN is a meeting point for all documentary professionals working in the film and TV industries. It has around 1000 members from more than 60 countries, including production companies, producers, directors and other film professionals, distributors, associations, film institutions & boards, broadcasters, universities and festivals. The key service of EDN are to provide information to its members on co-production and other kinds of collaboration across borders, the international potential of a project, where to take a finished film, distribution, festivals and markets, the EU MEDIA Programme and other funding options, documentary training programmes and production contacts in other countries.
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- http://www.filmaf.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Lists, Web Links
This website defines itself as ‘your favourite spot for film collecting’ and offers a quick and friendly way of finding films which have been released for home entertainment. The content is organised under two main tabs, Find DVDs and Find Blu-ray and searches can be limited to USA, UK, Canada or other countries. Further filters can be applied by selecting a specific release week; links to relevant retail outlets are also provided. The home page lists the ‘100 most collected directors’ and a link to their own Youtube Channel which offers help on how to pick ‘good’ titles, how to find films by ‘your favourite director’ and how to use ‘UPC importer’ to add your online collection to their database.
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- http://www.foster77.co.uk/mathematicalbeginnings/
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- Science and Technology
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- Mathematics
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- Web Links
How many streets or place names near you use a mathematical term? Freedom Square, Polygon Road…this website offers a collection of 46 starting points for rich mathematical activity in the classroom. The site lists each of these activities via an intriguing title (e.g. Beach, Polygon Road, Tissues, Coffee cards). It then links the title to three further pages: the ‘beginning’ page, which is an image illustrating the concept behind the title, a ‘prompt’, which offers suggestions for students to start asking mathematical questions, and a ‘teacher’s notes’ page which helps teachers to identify possible problem-solving contexts. The brains behind this practical site is Dr Colin Foster, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Mathematics Education at the University of Nottingham, and with this website he shares his enthusiasm for the art of effective questioning.
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- http://www.uniquecodeanddata.co.uk/teletext76/bbc1-19790720/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
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- Computing, Media Studies, Social Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This site is dedicated to the preservation, celebration and analysis of Teletext, the television information service introduced to British television in 1974 and familiar to UK viewers as Ceefax on the BBC and Oracle on ITV. Featuring a podcast, articles, archived pages from the service, and even an application that allows you to create your own Teletext page, the site is a labour of love, the pinnacle of which is a teletext time machine: a fully interactive Ceefax service for the 20th July 1979.
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- http://www.newsfortvmajors.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Update, Web Links
This site is maintained by Christine Becker, who teaches film and television studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. The purpose of the site is to keep students of television informed of the latest developments in television, covering news, reviews, politics etc. The focus is on America but Becker also covers the British media, as well as providing information about the media companies who control much of what we see on our television, computer and mobile phone screens: the American networks, but also Facebook, YouTube, Netflix et al.. A useful source of information.
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- Drama, Literature, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, Web Links
Bardbox collects ‘some of the best and most interesting of original Shakespeare-related videos on YouTube, Vimeo and other video hosting sites’. As of March 2017 the number of results returned from a search for ‘Shakespeare’ in YouTube is nearing two million: for this reason the approach of BardBox is necessarily selective. Luke McKernan, who maintains the site, selects videos specifically created for distributon on YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion and other sites, and posts the content along with his own comments and details of cast, credits, date and links. An inspired and inspiring resource.
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