Media Frenzy

Am I posting this out of the desire to move forward the study of the media beneath these Glittering Squires? Or is it just that streaming media might annoy our technical chums. Anyway, a couple of interesting posts from Open Culture.

Best Online Documentaries is a no-frills website which aggregates a selection (589 in total to date) of high quality documentaries from Google Video. Sure there's chaff but some genuinely educational material here.

http://best.online.docus.googlepages.com/

Next up, The List Universe has posted 10 (+1) classic movies which can be found in Google Video & YouTube. I would query the legality of some of these but, hell, you might just go out & buy the DVD, mightn't you?
Films included are:

• Fritz Lang's M
• The General (Buster Keaton)
  
• The Goldrush (Charlie Chaplin)
  
• Mr Smith Goes To Washington
• Nosferatu
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• It Happened One Night
• Begotten
• It's A Wonderful Life
• All Quiet On The Western Front
• Nineteen Eighty-Four.

http://listverse.com/entertainment/10-brilliant-complete-movies-online/

Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts...

Source: Open Culture

Don't Look Back?

Check out the Footer (at the bottom!) for further (but unadulterated) video materials...

The New York Times

Effective as of today the New York Times has made its archive (from 1982 onwards) freely available. Content from 1851 to 1922 is already in the public domain. The bit in the middle? Well, some will be free, some pay-per-view. Previously supported by subscription this does of course mean you'll get a lot of advertising now but, hey, what the hell? The internet is all about selling us stuff we don't need, isn't it?

More news about Asbury Park than Ferguslie Park? Well, it's FREE!

http://www.nytimes.com/

Source: Open Culture

Land of the Lost

Calling all Joomlaistas...

I think I've mentioned the IT Idiots website / blog here before. Anyway this HD video training screencast concerns a Joomla! 1.5 install. 1.5 is still in beta, but this is certainly worth a look if you haven't tried it out yet.

http://www.itidiots.com/content/view/138/1/


And as an afterthought (not really) with no apologies to our Francophone chums.

http://www.tartanspecials.com/

Active for Later Life

Health Scotland in partnership with the British Heart Foundation, have produced an updated resource to help all those involved in developing physical activity programmes for older people. The Active for Later Life resource provides practical guidance documents for practitioners, summaries of evidence and recommendations, policy and strategic connections, and a series of working papers that support health, social care and public service planning colleagues.

Download the document here.

Active for Later Life is accompanied by two presentations.

• Making the case for physical activity in later life is available here;


• Physical activity and the prevention of falls among older people here.

Source: Health Scotland

Equality & Diversity

The University of Wales at Newport have just launched a series of Equality & Diversity e-training toolkits. The toolkits are designed to provide front-line service sector workers with knowledge & guidance to ensure equal opportunity in organisation client-centred service delivery.

These eTraining toolkits take a fresh approach to Equality & Diversity (E&D) guidance. Working with experts in the field, E&D topic approaches are used to explore many of the barriers people face in education, service and employment settings.

Topics covered are:

• Age diversity
• Racial equality
• Homelessness awareness
• Disability equality

The toolkits support personalised delivery approaches which allow the user to pause, stop and return to the guidance. They can also be used to enrich traditional group face to face Equality and Diversity training through blended learning approaches.

By following the links you can access the material freely online after a short registration process.

http://equal.newport.ac.uk/Home_Eng.html

Source: JISC RSC Wales