-----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nico Carpentier Sent: 06 March 2006 10:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ecrea] Newsfilm Online launches demonstrator website >Newsfilm Online is one of the most exciting resources to be offered to >Higher and Further Education in the UK. 3,000 hours of television news and >cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters >archive, is being made available online in high quality format for >teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online will be a gateway of >unmatched richness to nearly one hundred years of news, from the 1910s to >the present day. > > > >Newsfilm Online has now launched a demonstrator website at: > >http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/ > >This 'demonstrator' web site is making some fifty news clips >(approximately one hour of material) freely available for downloading to >all users. These clips are arranged by theme and decade, and we welcome >your comments on any of these. We hope to add more clips to the site in >due course. > >The main delivery of 3,000 hours will be in February 2007. > > >James Taylor the project's Education and Outreach Officer is currently >arranging visits to HE and FE institutions to demonstrate the Newsfilm >Online Resource and to seek input from teaching and research staff and >students on the needs and requirements of educational users. If you would >like James to visit your institution, have any queries or would like any >more information on Newsfilm Online you can contact him using the details >below. > >James Taylor >Education/Outreach Officer >Newsfilm Online >http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/ >Email: [log in to unmask] >Phone: 020 7430 4580 >Address: >200 Grays Inn Road >London >WC1X 8XZ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Carpentier Nico (Phd) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO) Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.24.14 F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.28.61 Office: 5B.401a ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Katholieke Universiteit Brussel - Catholic University of Brussels Vrijheidslaan 17 - B-1081 Brussel - Belgium T: ++ 32 (0)2-412.42.78 F: ++ 32 (0)2/412.42.00 Office: 4/0/18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- European Communication Research and Education Association Web: http://www.eccr.info/ecrea/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- ECREA-Mailing list --- To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] with in the body of the message (NOT in the subject): unsubscribe ecrea --- ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association Postal address: ECREA - P.O. Box 106, B-1210 Brussels 21, Belgium Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.ecrea.info/ecrea ----------------