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Oct/

2009

Pathé Returns

SEGfL is pleased to announce the purchase of a new schools' licence for access to the re-vamped British Pathé Archives with immediate effect.

Powerful search routines make finding resources from within the 3,500 hours of films or 12 million stills a simple process. New features include a useful, free workspace to assemble and annotate your own collections whether at home or school. These can be shared and replayed anywhere with a neat feature for sharing the url via email or embeding the link in a learning platform. Downloading selected films to a SEGfL connected terminal is now rapid and, as previously, material may be edited and used in school for education purposes. Pupil generated material using Pathé resources may now be retained in perpetuity.

Seventy-five years of digital history make this an appealing resource for any number of curriculum areas. Why not join the SEGfL SPOT debate at www.segfl.org.uk/spot to share your lesson ideas and find links to support materials and project examples.

Click here to visit the British Pathé website..

The NEN has negotiated a new three-year Schools Licence (2009-2012) with the new owners of the archive and schools in subscribing RBC, LA or national networks in the UK can now download, without charge, the high-definition film and still files using a much faster interface with automatic authentication over the NEN.

Each film can now be referenced by a unique web-address linking directly to a much-enhanced, streamed playback page and a 'workspace' feature' allows users to collect films together by theme or whatever categorisation you want at the click of a button and keep them for future reference or share with others through a workspace weblink.

The high-definition files may be downloaded and used within the school's secure network and learning platform but must NOT be published on the WWW or distributed by file-sharing, DVD or other means. Files can be edited, used in presentations and in teacher resources. Pupil work can be retained in-perpetuity and copies used for examination work. Access from home through the open website is enhanced and allows teachers and pupils easier ways to explore and link to the wealth of resources available.

Improvements

· Faster interface with more web 2.0 type functions

· Immediate full screen playback of films without central watermark

· Three click download process

· Direct url links to films from websites or VLE

· Workspace function shareable with url link

· More useful new stories on homepage

· Suggested other films

About The Archive

There are 80,000 files containing a wide variety of types of film - news items, magazine items, short documentaries, education film, annual reviews, some adverts, animation stories and some raw footage and some outtakes. It is a complete film archive from the late 1890's until 1970 with 3,500 hours of film - not just a bank of "clips".

As well a recording significant events from the turn of the 19^th century until 1970 covering both World Wars the archive has a vast number of social and human interest stories. Topics include: sports; food and drink; science and technology; humour; transport; trade and industry; social issues; religion; lifestyle; culture; politics; news; education and schools; celebrity; animals and the living world - in short just about everything.

Work by secondary, primary and special schools over the past five years has demonstrated the real difference that film from the archive can make in engaging young people (and their teachers) and providing a means to attaining learning objectives and often, through the medium of film, performance and writing reaching out to wider social audiences inside and outside school.

As well as the films there are an estimated 12,000,000 still images; yes that's 12 million.

The key requirement is that the files must stay within the boundaries of the schools secure network. This means, for instance:

· Files can be shared within the school community provided they stay within the boundaries of its secure network.

· Files can be stored on school servers.

· Files can be put into Learning Platforms or VLEs for access off the school site through secure authentication.

· Files can be kept from year to year - for as long as the school is subscribing.

· Files can be used in examinations and copies sent to examination boards.

· Children's work can be kept in perpetuity even after a school stops subscribing.

· Files can be used and stored in IWB and data-projector systems.

· Files can be placed into presentation formats - such as 'Power Point'.

· Files can be edited into films.

· New sound and commentary can be added or mixed with existing sound.

· Files can be used for assemblies, drama/dance/music work or performance within the registered locations.

· Files can be used across the curriculum and with any age.

· Files can be used to make learning and teaching resources.

· Files can be placed into e-essays.

· If you wanted to use a film or still in a resource or website for public or wider-than-school view you must ask permission of British Pathé - that may incur a new licence for the use and a charge.

ONCE A FILE IS DOWNLOADED WHAT DO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS NOT ALLOW?

The key restriction is that the files must stay within the boundaries of the schools secure network.

This means, for instance:

· Files or derived work cannot be sold or used for commercial purposes

· Files or derived work cannot be used for non-commercial or non-profit purposes such as teaching resources that will be distributed publicly.

· Files or derived work cannot be published or distributed through, for instance, the WWW, DVD or CD-rom, file-sharing in their original form or as copies or if embedded into other media.

· Files or derived work cannot be published through school, third party websites or social networking websites such as 'You Tube'.

· Schools should not download large quantities of files to store elsewhere - i.e. decant the archive.

· Examination boards would have to request permissions from British Pathé to publish work including archive materials.

· You must not remove watermarks.

The Beatles workspace: http://www.britishpathe.com/workspace.php?id=1607

and ...

Pathé Blog stories demonstrating direct links to films and workspaces

http://www.shapesoftime.net/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=7274

'HOW TO DOWNLOAD A STILL' (a 'Jing' film made by Simon Finch at Northern Grid to solve the problem - thank you Simon)

http://www.shapesoftime.net/FileSystem/upfile/j00013/marshall%20pathe.swf

'HOW TO DOWNLOAD A FILM' (A 'Jing' film made by Prof Zebra)

on Shapes at http://www.shapesoftime.net/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=806

or on 'Screencast' at http://www.screencast.com/t/qeW4UfPhO (larger size)