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  1. The Exploratorium Streaming

    Link
    https://www.exploratorium.edu
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Art, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, General Science, History, Mathematics, Nature, Physics, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    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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  2. MIT OpenCourseWare Streaming

    Link
    https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Biology, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Medicine, Sports Science, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Courses, Streaming/Download

    MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of almost all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content. The majority of courses contain video or audio lectures. Several courses are translated into other languages. Among the many courses covered are: Neuroscience and Behaviour, Engineering Dynamics, Energy Decisions, Markets and Policies and Computational and Systems Biology.

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  3. The Documentary Network Streaming

    Link
    https://documentary.net/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Art, Economics, Education, General Science, History, Media Studies, Music, Nature, Politics and Government, Sports Science, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Discussion Lists, Streaming/Download

    A site offering free streamed documentaries; new titles are added daily. Films can be selected by broad categories (e.g. Economy, Media, Nature), by country of production and by duration - short (up to 10 mins), mid (11-30 mins) and long (30 mins or over). Filmmakers are invited to send the site their films for potential distribution. An online magazine/gives industry news, new gadgets, reviews, and notice of forthcoming films. Free tutorials and guides on documentary filmmaking are available from the site.

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  4. Virtual Microscope Streaming

    Link
    https://www.virtualmicroscope.org/
    Category
    Science and Technology
    Subject
    General Science, Geology
    Type of resource
    Discussion Lists, Web Links

    This Earth Sciences resource was developed by the Open University to broaden access to rock collections previously only available in universities, museums or specialist institutions. The aim is to engage with students at school or in higher education and to help develop identification and classification skills without the need for expensive microscopes or the facilities to prepare thin slices of rock. Users can zoom, pan and rotate specimens in light conditions that mirror those previously only possible using specialist petrological microscopes. The collections include meteorites as well as a news section and a list of teaching resources.

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  5. Slate Video Streaming

    Link
    http://www.slate.com/articles/video.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, General Science, Literature, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    The video channel of the US-based online culture and current affairs magazine Slate. The magazine has a left-leaning bias and its tone is witty, irreverent and informative. For example, the video on FX/digital compositing explains how hidden special effects work in films in a very entertaining way. The Podcasts cover similar ground.

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  6. Association Science & Télévision (AST) Streaming

    Link
    https://science-television.com/home/
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Agriculture, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Engineering, General Science, Genetics, Medicine, Physics
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    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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  7. Bioethics Bytes Streaming

    Link
    http://bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com/
    Category
    Bio-Medical
    Subject
    Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Media Studies
    Type of resource
    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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  8. GNS Science Streaming

    Link
    http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/News-and-Events/Audio
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Agriculture, Archaeology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Environmental Studies, General Science, Geography, Geology, Medicine, Physics, Technology
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    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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  9. Dead Media Project Streaming

    Link
    https://www.deadmedia.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Computing, Film Studies, General Science, Media Studies, Technology
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    The Dead Media Project is a database of reports compiled by members of the Project’s mailing list, who contribute information on means of communication that are now obsolete. It is a characteristic of the Project that among the various comments that each posting generates there is often someone who can report that a supposed Dead Medium is still in use somewhere. Nevertheless, the site mostly records the dead and the fantastical: the phenakistoscope, the teleharmonium, Piesse’s Smell Organ, Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon, Hummel’s Telediagraph, runic tally sticks, Scopitone, pigeon post, pneumatic mail, the whistling networks of the Canary Islands, and numerous moving image and sound devices that are no more. The Dead Media Project has itself been dead since July 2008, but it is worth looking at the pages via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to retrieve the information held at that date.

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  10. Building Better Humans (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.arts.arizona.edu/buildingbetterhumans/Index.html
    Category
    Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
    Subject
    Biology, General Science, Photography
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    This site presents a selective history of ‘the interaction between technology and the body’. It incorporates automata of the 16th-18th centuries, photographic and cinematographic records of bodies in motion from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Marey, Muybridge), and contemporary examples of ways in which science is mapping the outer and inner workings of the body, including the Visible Human Project. Previously available at: http://access.tucson.org/~michael/Intro.html, this site is no longer active, but it can be traced by entering the address in the Wayback Machine.

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