by Derek Morrison, 25 April 2009
In November 2008 I posted a three part series with the theme On the video – a reflection on YouTube and friends in which I mentioned the University of Nottingham’s Periodic Table of Videos. While I was attempting to catch up on my backlog of podcasts one of which was an edition of the BBC’s Material World (28 August 2008) I came across an item relating to Nottingham’s YouTube presence. About 15 minutes 10 seconds into the programme there is an interesting piece on the creation of the Nottingham video archive featuring Martyn Poliakoff, CBE, who is a research professor at the University of Nottingham and a pioneer in the field of green chemistry. If only my chemistry teachers had been like this 🙂
As an aside, it is gratifying to see that the BBC keeps a long term and publicly available archive of many programmes with “educational” value. These escape the seven day “listen again/view again” cull that is the norm. If we could only get them to increase the number of programmes that are supported by transcripts that would also be great. The US NPR programme On the Media has shown how it should be done for years.