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Last updated 23rd February 2007

:: Screenonline's Education Zone has been re-launched with many new areas and the start of a stream of materials "written by teachers for teachers" to use the resources and film-clips. And all available over the NEN!. Education Zone



	Paul Merton on early British Cinema, one of the interactive tours. photo Screenonline.

Screenonline - the British Film Insititue (BFI) comprehensive online learning resource dedicated to the history of British film and television – is now freely available to every school in the UK through the national education networks.

This is the first NEN enabled, cross-sector, inclusive, free at the point of use UK education licence for media-rich, digitised learning resources.

Working in collaboration with the RBC, Screenonline is made available to schools in England through the NEN. Schools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland also have access through their networks as part of the partnership between RBC and 'Glow', NGfL Cymru and C2Kni. In a further development the national network system will also enable Further Education Colleges thoughout the UK to access Screenonline by June 2007. Screenonline will also be available to schools in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

The service is now in full operation following successful tests between Screenonline and the RBC.

Problems? If you experience any problems with access or opening the media files please use the Screenonline Helpline giving the error message you encountered.

Access Screenonline from a school location www.screenonline.org.uk

From a home or non-school location you can access much of the website content, including the Archive Interactives but not the media clips which are only available, due to copryright restrictions, from school or college locations. Increasingly users in libraries will also be able to access the full resources. It's the same url: www.screenonline.org.uk

Screenonline is “The Definitive Guide to British Film and Televison” in the UK, with over 300 hours of media clips. It provides resources to support the curriculum including Media Studies, English, History and Citizenship and RE. By delivering the archive over the NEN using schools broadband, the aim of the project is to give improved quality of delivery on each of the films and give schools access to key resources within the secure, safe and service-rich environment of the NEN.

With the exponential increase in use of digital video by teachers and pupils - both as creators and consumers - the need for resources that support the development of 'media literacy' becomes an increasingly important part of both the formal and informal 'curriculum' in all phases of education. Screenonline will provide a national and common centre for a wide range of such resources with the particular reference point of UK film and television freeing up teachers and support agencies to focus on 'personalisation', 'attainment' and the 'global dimension'...

FAQs Screenoline Help page

:: The Mediatheque was launched in London by the BFI partnering with HP. An open viewing facility on the South Bank the public will have free access to viewing resources from the BFI Film and Television archive. If successful Mediatheque centres could be opened in other locations around Britain. BFI Mediatheque.
:: Schools are being informed by a CD distribution to all schools, itself including sample 'clips'.
:: The BFI archive is the whole set of film and television collections - vast - and is being progressively digitised to feed projects such as Screenonline and the Mediatheque and the pay-for (£8.00 each) home use only, Download Centre. Download Centre
:: The BFI Creative Archive has three new clips added. Creative Archive Centre

RBC and partners briefing.
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