About

Introduction

The EnhanceTV Community is the place to connect and share ideas and resources with educators using TV in the classroom.

You can recommend educational TV programs and give the Community your tips for teaching with the programs you have shown in class. Share your experiences about what worked, what didn't, how relevant the program is for the Australian curriculum, and other insights from an academic perspective. The site is intended to promote genuine discussion and an exchange of ideas.

The more input you have, and the more discussions, lesson plans and links you share, the better decisions everyone can make in choosing TV programs for their libraries and classrooms.

Feedback from educators in all school or tertiary levels is welcome!

We hope you enjoy our online community and find it a lively and interesting place to educate, learn and question any aspect of teaching with TV.

EnhanceTV and its Community website, are brought to you by Screenrights, the not-for-profit organisation that licenses educational institutions to copy from TV. Download the media release about the Community's launch.

The EnhanceTV Community is also the place where filmmakers can share information about their work with the people who are using their programs in teaching. It's important that filmmakers who contribute aren't just posting advertising or promotional material - educators can find that kind of information on other sites. EnhanceTV reserves the right not to publish material of this nature.

We’d love to hear from filmmakers who have insights into ways in which their programs have been used or ways in which they intended them to be used in schools and tertiary institutions.

How to participate

• Anyone can connect and share with the EnhanceTV Community - membership is open and free.
• If you don't sign up, you can still view the content.
• Otherwise, simply sign up and login to the EnhanceTV Community – even if you are already an existing EnhanceTV member.
• For ease of remembering passwords, we recommend you join the EnhanceTV Community with the same username and password you have for the main EnhanceTV site.Don't share you password with anyone.
• Please upload a representative photo - community members like to know who they're communicating with. It gives the site "life" and you'll stand out from the crowd!
• Set your privacy options. Decide how visible you want your profile & comments to be to people outside their networks. The default on Ning.com is that “Anyone” can see everything. Other choices are “Members of My Social Network,” “Just My Friends,” or “Just Me.” There is also a checkbox to “Hide My Social Networks from Others.” Depending on members’ privacy settings, you may be able to see their profile, comments, all the networks they belong to (not just the EnhanceTV Community), and click on their friends’ photos.
• When you sign up, please introduce yourself, let us know who you are and where you are from, what subject area you teach, and what's the last program you used in class.
• Once you’ve joined, you can participate in the blogs, forums, and online chats with other educators, share documents related to teaching with TV, and pose questions for upcoming podcasts.

Guidelines

The EnhanceTV Community is always open to new ideas, and welcomes constructive criticism.

Input is welcomed from educators in all school and tertiary levels, and from makers of educational programs.

The best ideas come from you.

EnhanceTV Community operates under these Terms of Website Use and Member Terms of Use .

EnhanceTV Community etiquette

• Be respectful in listening to others.
• Feedback and opinions welcome.
• Ethical use of copyright materials essential. If adding facts, quotes, graphics, audio or video files created by others, acknowledge the author.
• Aim for originality in adding new ideas and content materials.
• We allow critical messages to be posted to the discussion group or blog, so long as such criticisms don't use inflammatory language, encourage criminal behaviour, contain obvious inaccuracies or confidential information, aren't verbatim posts from a previous post by the same author.
• Blogs and forums are not an opportunity to simply advertise selected productions and services
• When referencing programs and study guides which can be found on EnhanceTV, please include links to them rather than 3rd party sites.
• The site will be moderated in regard to these points. Comments and posts that contravene the etiquette will be taken down by the moderator. The author of the post or comment will be notified with the reason the post or comment was removed from the site.

About our Blog

Want to share an announcement or submit a short article about any aspect of teaching with TV? Any EnhanceTV Community member can submit a Blog or contribute. Our blogging tips may help get you started.

About our Forum

Forums are discussion areas around a topic related to teaching with TV. We’re especially interested in your comments about a recent program or film broadcast on TV that you've used. It's also a place where you can make suggestions for future podcasts; and where the film industry discusses their educational programs. Any EnhanceTV Community member can start a forum or contribute, and they are not moderated.