NFB EDUCATION 2011-2012 ONLINE
CONTENT GUIDE le ar n di s cu ss e xp lo r 2011-2012 ONLINE CONTENT GUIDE
Welcome to our 2011–2012 Education Catalogue Digital section! The following pages are all about the NFB’s online Screening Room and our latest inte- ractive projects, which include Emmy® award winner Out My Window and Webby award winner Welcome to Pine Point. All our interactive content is linked to nationwide curricula and provides an immersive experience that has students really connecting what they learn with their own knowledge base and experiences. At NFB.ca you’ll find over 2,200 Canadian productions that institutions who have subscribed to our streaming services can share with students. (Check with your organization as you may already have institutional access to our collection.) Also, you can download the free NFB.ca app to prepare your classes on a mobile device.
To navigate our online Screening Room, click on the Explore, Channels, Playlist, Interactive and Blog headings at NFB.ca. And wherever you are on the site, you can click on the Education heading at the top of the screen to return to NFB.ca/education. This is the homepage for all our educational sales informa- tion, resources and activities—make it your starting point. At NFB.ca/education you’ll find sales promotions and news, feature education projects, teachers’ guides, mobile learning resources and thematic playlists. We also regularly post details there of hands-on student workshops and teacher conferences CONTACT across Canada. Coming this fall: our new Stop-Motion Animation learning module and Stop-Motion Animation app for the iPad 2—more innovative learning tools. Subscribe to our education newsletter to stay informed! Penny Rampado Institutional and Education Sales Officer
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SHOP: nfb.ca/store Finding Your Way Around NFB.ca Navigating our online Screening Room is easy. Here’s how: 4 – a4
EDUCATION Find the homepage for all NFB educational /EDUCATION activities under this tab. Access info about: sales promotions workshops conferences the education newsletter digital literacy tools featured education projects links to excellent teaching resources all the latest news on awards, reviews and new educational titles
Make this your starting point at NFB.ca.
Ready to take your lessons to the next level? Call 1-800-267-7701 and subscribe today!
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EXPLORE So many ways to find what you’re looking for!
/EXPLORE Find specific titles easily in our alphabetized list.
Or search by options like language, production year and duration.
To find the perfect films for specific lessons, run a thematic search.
Let’s say you’re looking for material on health in developing countries… simply click on the EXPLORE tab [ ] Films by Subject / Health and Medicine / Developing Countries to pull up our full array of films on that theme.
Find education descriptions written by Cana- dian educators for most online titles under the EDUCATION tab.
Streaming licence required. Call 1-800-267-7710 now! Finding Your Way Around
CHANNELS Under this tab films are organized by broad categories, such as: /CHANNELS Arts Kids’ Movies Aboriginal Peoples Classics World
This is a great place simply to browse.
Check out some of our most popular channels… The Green Channel—for films on the environment and sustainability History—for films about or with an important place in history Hot Topics—for films that document, and have even sparked, controversies.
Bookmark your favourites!
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PLAYLISTS Not quite sure where to start? /PLAYLISTS Click on the PLAYLISTS tab to find out which films NFB experts and media personalities recommend.
There are play lists by theme too—use these for sourcing materials on Halloween, say, or animation or racism in the workplace.
Coming soon: more curated Education playlists.
We’ve already launched Films for Change, a playlist of compelling documentaries on the environment appropriate for students at secondary school level. Here you’ll find films on everything from the perils of uranium mining to the adventures of Jacques Cousteau to the super-sizing of North Americans.
Check in during Fall 2011 when we’ll be posting a Stop-Motion Animation video tutorial.
Other top play lists: Bridging Cultures nfb. ca/playlist/bridging-cultures and Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie nfb.ca/ playlist/force-nature-david-suzuki-movie.
Download comprehensive teaching guides at NFB.ca for all of these films. Streaming licence required. Call 1-800-267-7710 now! Finding Your Way Around NFB.ca Navigating our online Screening Room is easy. Here’s how: 8 – a8
BLOG Our bloggers share what’s new and news- /BLOG worthy at the NFB. Under the BLOG tab, read posts about: the films winning awards and generating buzz the events and festivals showcasing NFB works the workshops and educational events being offered across Canada
New and noteworthy: In “Fogo Island Adven- tures!” you can hear firsthand from workshop leaders who left their big-city homes for a stint working with high-school students on a remote Atlantic island, just off Iceberg Alley.
Click on our new education blog blog.nfb.ca/ category/education for posts on workshops at the Mediatheque and CineRobotheque as well as in schools and museums.
You’ll find lots of fun news for educators there too!
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INTERACTIVE The NFB is emerging as a world leader in /INTERACTIVE interactive content. Under the INTERACTIVE tab, your students can access and engage with visual works and websites that explore the world from a uniquely Canadian perspective.
Let them make personalized explorations and share their stories.
Get your students interacting! Whether sharing photos and experiences from their own com- munities via the HIGHRISE project or creating water conservation projects, inspired by the Waterlife site, they’ll be applying what they learn to their own lives and reaching out to learners from diverse backgrounds across the globe.
In the following pages of this catalogue you’ll find details of our most recent award-winning interactive projects.
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CAPTURING REALITY
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LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA SOCIAL STUDIES GOVERNMENT/CITIZENSHIP/POLITICS
Capturing Reality The Art of Documentary GUIDE
This site prompts classroom questions, such as: “How do documentaries construct realities?” and encourages discussion of the ethical and social consequences of documen- tary filmmaking. As well as taking inspiration from directors’ final reflections, students can acquire new knowledge in the areas of editing, sound and interviewing to apply to their own projects. They can choose to study a particular director too. Students of web design can examine effective elements in design and accessibility.
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FLAWED
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LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE HEALTH & MEDICINE – HEALTHY LIVING SOCIAL ISSUES – GIRLS & WOMEN
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Exploring links that question ideas of the “normal” body, students can express their own opinions on “flaws” through photogra- phy or video that experiments with sound and visual animation techniques. They can also undertake creative writing projects or research and discuss the medical and ethical consequences of plastic surgery. Web design students can study the site’s design strategies and accessibility to its target audience.
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FLUB AND UTTER
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LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE SOCIAL ISSUES HEALTH & MEDICINE
Inspired by links from individual words, students can create their own poetry and personal websites. Student writers from around the world can then connect with each other on this interactive site. The poet’s personal speech challenges prompt students to reflect on similar experiences in journals and dramatic improvisations, as well as to research topics on human speech. Examining related NFB films online encourages students to explore human challenges through a mul- titude of expressions, such as video, drama and poetry.
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GOD’S LAKE NARROWS
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ABORIGINAL PEOPLES/FIRST NATIONS STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA HUMAN RIGHTS
The creative combination of personal narra- tive and sound inspires students in reading, listening, research and writing activities, par- ticularly around such topics as: the nature of culture, stereotypes of First Nations reserves, the effects of industrialization on First Nations culture, residential schools, the effect of environment on children’s early development, the challenges of being gay and Native in Canada. Opportunities for debate abound, as the site invites comparisons between contem- porary urban Canadian communities and rural reserves. This is an invitation for First Nations students to reexamine their own prejudices.
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ARTS – ARCHITECTURE, LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA FOOD & AGRICULTURE GOVERNMENT/CITIZENSHIP/POLITICS GEOGRAPHY
One Millionth Tower presents the residents of a Toronto highrise complex imagining a new living space for planting roots and growing together. This immersive online experience shows the outcome through animation, still photography, sound and the voices of real Canadians. Encourage students to re-imagine the spaces where they live and learn. They can use illustration, animation and words to create their own revitalized reality; they should reflect on the process of making a participa- tory, community-driven, multi-dimensional web production.
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HIGHRISE: OUT MY WINDOW
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GEOGRAPHY SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS – ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, MUSIC MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA
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This site inspires inquiry into how people forge and sustain cultural identity within challenging high-rise environments. Active participation in the online project encourages tolerance and Out My WindOW understanding of diverse communities and their individual human stories. Students can extend with written personal and fictional nar- ratives, exploring the powerful influences of music, art and culture in urban settings. De- signing models of effective high-rise buildings enables learners to understand relationships between physical environments and human behaviour.
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Links allow students to explore such themes as: immigration, patriotism, urban develop- ment, health and family life, environment and religious iconology. Students can extend their learning through comparisons to their local THE ANGEL STATUE recreational environments, offering challenges and solutions through the creation of sites that reach out to their communities. The site inspires the exploration of environments through photography. Web design students can study the site’s visual appeal, deep links and accessibility.
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THE TEST TUBE
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ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION HUMAN RIGHTS & GLOBALIZATION MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA
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Learners will be inspired to build on the bacteria metaphor, as well as create new and equally effective metaphors on environmental themes, through persuasive and fictional writing and visual, oral and dramatic projects. The site is ideal for the promotion of social networking in the interest of environmental activism. Web design students can study ef- fective visuals and accessibility, and language that encourages curiosity and social action.
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THIS LAND
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ABORIGINAL PEOPLES/FIRST NATIONS STUDIES GEOGRAPHY WAR, CONFLICT & PEACE
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Compelling images and narrative inspire projects that explore Canadian identity and the roles played by climate and geography, global warming, the relationship between Canada’s north and the country as a whole, gender and sexuality issues, and the influence of physical stamina on behaviour. Students can develop language and writing skills by listening first to the narrative, then describing imagined sce- narios through fiction or poetry. Web learners can analyze effective design techniques.
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WATERLIFE
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ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION SCIENCE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES/FIRST NATIONS STUDIES
This site spurs active participation in environ- mental activism. Using it as both a resource and springboard for their own websites, classes can initiate local projects around wa- ter quality, working with municipal authorities. Various themes arise from the focused naviga- tion of links: the significance of water to First Nations culture and communities, the role of the Great Lakes in the nation’s eco-culture, the significance of water to life and culture, and the effects of consumerism on health.
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WELCOME TO PINE POINT
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SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE MEDIA EDUCATION & CINEMA GEOGRAPHY
Diverse and abundant links allow learners to focus on themes such as: landscape, memory, mementos, identity and friendship. Students gain insight into the human experience when examining the poignant narrative text as a whole, perhaps comparing the stories they hear with their own stories through written and visual/oral expression. They can explore notions of relationships, communities and school experiences by creating their own virtual or physical personal and group albums. The site’s design invites the study of creative visual and narrative interactive techniques.
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