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Free global pocasts from GMID!

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We have a brand new free resource now available in GMID – Global PODCASTS!!

The official title is “Globalcast”, Euromonitor’s new podcast series bringing you the latest trends and insight on industries, countries and consumers worldwide.  With this series, we bring users behind the scenes of the global marketplace with interviews and analysis from our expert research analysts. These discussions provide the listener with innovative concepts from around the globe currently impacting consumers and our specialist industries.

 

You will now find the podcast link, under LINKS on the GMID homepage, located under Technical Support.

The PODCASTS themselves are absolutely fantastic allowing students to download the podcast of their choice to their I-pod or listening to them at their computer.

 

 Try them at :  http://euromonitor.libsyn.com/

NewsFilm online

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We now have acces to NewsFilm online which is a JISC-funded service, offering access to over 3,000 hours of downloadable television news and cinema newsreels, selected from the huge ITN/Reuters Television Archives (about 60,000 stories) You can search the service via the NewsFilm Online home page:
http://www.nfo.ac.uk/
Login and select Glasgow Caledonian University from the pull down menu and access will be allowed using
your Athens userid and password
Content includes

  • Channel 4 news & News at 10 1982-2006
  • Channel 5 1996-2006
  • Gaumont newsreels 1920-1959
  • ITN News Reports 1955-1967
  • Unreleased footage 1910-2006
    “users are permitted to embed clips in virtual learning environments or presentations and can “quote” from the teaching and learning materials just as they would quote from a printed resource”