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AUDIO-VISUAL FOR ALL
By Helen Fiton, British Universities Film & Video Council
While there are many benefits of being a BUFVC member – including access to our comprehensive TV and radio listings, discounts for our events and courses, and copies of our monthly magazine – there are also a number of our services we offer the general public, completely free of charge. Core to our work is serving our members, but we also help to benefit the educational community more widely. Here are just a few services anyone can access and that are geared towards helping users, wherever they come from, with their learning, teaching and research. Barmy about the bard? Explore our
popular Shakespeare database, which holds anything and everything relating to the great man himself from film, television, radio and the web. With over 8,000 records ranging from the 1890s to the present day, this database is regularly updated by our in-house experts and is a key Shakespeare resource for research and education. Another popular tool is our Moving
Image Gateway, an online database that links to over 1,600 websites that host free moving image and sound content. Each of the sites have been hand-picked by BUFVC staff for their educational value. Users can search the database for keywords, topics of themes, or just browse the 40 subject disciplines in the index, ranging from agriculture and crafts to women’s studies and technology. Finally, our Find DVDs database
is a detailed catalogue of free and commercially available media materials, which includes 30,000 titles selected by BUFVC staff for their usefulness in higher and further education. Listings include details of DVDs, podcasts, CDs and websites
covering academic
subject areas ranging from advertising to zoology. Details of all these resources and more are freely available on our website:
bufvc.ac.uk
NTU brings gaming into the classro
School pupils will soon be creating their own video games in the classroom, as part of a new project to link gaming to the wider curriculum. Notingham Trent University (NTU)
is a key partner in the €3.2m ‘No One Left Behind’ initiative, co-funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme. The project will allow children to
use a non-leisure gaming ‘toolkit’ to develop digital games on mobile
ABOVE: Nottingham Trent University is a key partner in 'No One Left Behind'
devices – aiming to enhance their abilities across all academic subjects, as well as their computational proficiency, creativity and social skills. The ‘No One Left Behind’ project
will involve a consortium of European educationalists, computer scientists, videogame companies and designers.
York zones in on campus safety ABOVE: The University of York
The University of York has launched a free app to help to give round-the-clock safety reassurance to staff and students. York is the first University in the Russell
Group to roll out the free application designed to help students and staff on campus to summon security or safety assistance via mobiles. The SafeZone app allows security or first
aid personnel to pinpoint the location where help is needed. It also provides staff
and students with a way of summoning general assistance swiftly from the Security Services helpdesk through a simple tap of an on-screen buton. Nearly 20,000 students and staff
will be able to access three main features using SafeZone – emergency, first aid and general help. The app will also help the University
send targeted notification messages to staff and students in the event of an incident in particular areas or buildings on campus. Security staff across campus have put the system through exhaustive trials for
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