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The Medieval Imagination

'The Medieval Imagination, Illustrated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand’ was a blockbuster exhibition held at the State Library of Victoria. This 26 min documentary looks at the bringing together of 90 hand-made, precious books dating from the 8th to the 16th centuries, including the oldest European book to ever cross the Equator. Behind the scenes of this exhibi… Continue

Added by Philippe Charluet on January 25, 2010 at 10:38am — No Comments

Serving up food programs

Which came first - chicken (cordon bleu style) or the egg (Benedict please)?

Did Australia's obsession with food c… Continue

Added by Kerry Franta on December 23, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

EnhanceTV ATOM Awards - winner's clips now online

You can now view online clips from the winning entries of the 2009 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards. These clips span tertiary, primary and secondary students, educational productions and those from the production industry. There are over 30 categories of film, television, animation and multimedia work. The clips are uploaded in the EnhanceTV Community - where you can add your comments and even upload videos yourself. Continue

Added by Kerry Franta on December 2, 2009 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Study Guides are available for The Art Life and Not Quite Art Series 1

The producers of Not Quite Art and This Art Life have prepared study guides which are available to download from the ABC The Art Life http://www.abc.net.au/programsales/s2596557.htm Not Quite Art Series 1 http://www.abc.net.au/programsales/s2603079.htm Continue

Added by Cyrus Irani on November 19, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Using TV to teach the Internet

I teach undergraduate students in communication and marketing, particularly in the area of digital application. That means teaching the Internet. It’s impossible for any communications or marketing student to fully appreciate the shift in these industries without understanding the history and the role of the internet in changes to consumer behaviour, marketing communications and markets and business. Teaching the Internet in a non-technical area is relatively new and resources have been hard to… Continue

Added by Beth Powell on November 17, 2009 at 12:52pm — 1 Comment

Digital Footprints

Glenys Lowden, teacher librarian from Lowther Hall AGS, Essendon VIC recommends a great video (on Youtube) that Steve Johnson has produced which educators may find useful in teaching about the issues involved with digital footprints. "Our digital footprint tells others - where we've been, who we've been with, where we've wandered, and where we're going," it… Continue

Added by EnhanceTV on November 11, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Donated to Science

What happens when someone donates their body to science? How does dissecting a real human body affect the medical students who do it? Why do people donate their bodies? What do their relatives think? Find out on this beautiful, spiritual and utterly life affirming film. Premiers on TV3 in New Zealand November 18th 9:30pm.

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Added by Paul Trotman on November 5, 2009 at 11:55am — No Comments

The Great Escape movie - what really happened?

You saw Steve McQueen on his motorcycle in the Hollywood blockbuster... now comes the story of what happened after The Great Escape. This Thursday THE GREAT ESCAPE: The Reckoning comes to ABC1 TV at 8.30pm. Through dramatic recreation and interviews with surviving prisoners from Stalag Luft III, we reveal how a small group of RAF Investigators plunge into the c… Continue

Added by EnhanceTV on October 29, 2009 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Teaching Short Filmmaking in School

Calling Out! I am currently on placement at a great school on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and I have taken on the opportunity to conduct a Short Filmmaking course. I thought this would be a great chance to network with other teachers that are doing similar things in the area. The class is only small around 18 and on Monday of each week they have time for excursions. This brings me to the point. Would any other teachers out there being willing for us to come and see them in action on a Monday?… Continue

Added by Kelly Chambers on October 8, 2009 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Copyright implications of using Learning Management Systems

Myself and my colleagues, Ian McDonald and Louise Buckingham, have recently returned from a week of running copyright seminars in Adelaide. We ran several sessions for educators (see www.copyright.org.au/training) which were lively, interactive sessions where we dealt with the latest copyright issues affecting educational institutions. It is always interesting for us to hear about new teaching methods and to explore the copyrigh… Continue

Added by Australian Copyright Council on September 24, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Calling all teachers of English, history, media studies, society & culture

The upcoming ABC online and TV documentary series “The Making of Modern Australia" (MOMA) could be an ideal opportunity for a class project to plan for this year or early 2010. The producers are calling for stories on growing up in Australia in the post war years with particular emphasis on parenting an… Continue

Added by Kerry Franta on September 15, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Teaching global issues using “The Burning Season”

“The Burning Season” has wide relevance to schools, especially in the subjects of Geography, Environmental Studies/Science, International Studies, Political and Business Studies, English and Indonesian Language and Culture. Here are just some of the class activities in the Study Guide developed by Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM):… Continue

Added by Cathy Henkel on September 14, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

“The Burning Season” film – what it’s about

Every year, there is a burning season in Indonesia. Areas of rainforest the size of Denmark are cut down and set alight by farmers and corporations to develop palm oil plantations. As well as destroying the habitat of critically endangered orangutans, new scientific evidence shows that deforestation comprises 20% of global carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change.… Continue

Added by Cathy Henkel on September 7, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

EAST WEST 101 - student exercises

Creating the character It might be interesting for students to take a newspaper item about a crime and create characters and a story from it. If the crime is a murder, then they could make a profile of the victim, which is something detectives do. Students could look at the age, sex, ethnicity of the victim and create a character. What did he/she do to end up as a murder victim? They could create the victim’s family and colleagues, the witnesses and finally, the guilty. What were his/her… Continue

Added by Kris Wyld on September 2, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

“The Burning Season” film – its creation

As writer, director and co-producer of “The Burning Season”, I’d like to share some of the reasons behind the creation of this film. My interest in the forests of Indonesia and the plight of the orangutan began in late 2006 when I discovered that over 4,000 orangutans had been killed by deliberately lit fires in Borneo that year. My partner Jeff Canin was doing some work for GRASP (Great Ape Survival Project) and showed me sad and horrific pictures of orangutans who had been injured and… Continue

Added by Cathy Henkel on August 31, 2009 at 11:21am — 2 Comments

EAST WEST 101 - the creative process (part 2)

In Season Two, Steve and I spent months and months trying to find a series narrative that would top the first season. We had talked with the detectives, and got a number of possible scenarios; the researcher, Mandy McCarthy had also given mountains of material. But we still didn’t have a drive that made us feel this would be a powerful drama. One day, six months in, we decided to call SBS and tell them that there wouldn’t be a series 2. Once we decided that, a minute later, ideas started… Continue

Added by Kris Wyld on August 26, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

EAST WEST 101 - the creative process (part 1)

As one of the creators of the show EAST WEST 101, I would like to reveal some of the creative processes involved in our storytelling.

Steve Knapman and I usually take months to come up with a concept. Then we research, research, research. In the case of East West 101, we talk to our consulta… Continue

Added by Kris Wyld on August 19, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Using Crime Drama as an educational tool

Coming up in a series of 3 blogs, we are lucky to have Kris Wyld, producer of East West 101 give us her insight into the creative processes behind Season One and Season Two. In her final blog she'll run through some student exercises which can be used in conjunction with East West 101, to show how this crime drama can be used from educational perspective. Have you used any contemporary crime drama in demonstrating a lesson or raise discussion? We'd love to hear which program you used, an… Continue

Added by EnhanceTV on August 19, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

The enormous background to film production

I have been privileged to have access to the hard drive from one television series recently. I was amazed at the amount of paperwork involved in the development of a series. There was a guidance manual for all steps and stages of pre-production, production and post production which was completed with a reflective summative evaluation of the planning that had taken place including suggestions for changes if another series was to be made. The number of aspects to be considered and amount of detail… Continue

Added by Marion Douglas on August 12, 2009 at 8:20am — No Comments

Discussing the ethics of journalism

The "Teaching TV News" blog competition has hopefully got you thinking about your top tips for educators. I came across the Fine Line study guide which might help get you started. Here are some excerpts:… Continue

Added by Kerry Franta on August 4, 2009 at 11:18am — 1 Comment

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