&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-288" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;02&sol;SN16-Screenrights&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SN16-Screenrights" width&equals;"200" height&equals;"150" &sol;>How can television play a part in today&&num;8217&semi;s classroom – in terms of content and technology&quest; And how can schools access this content without worrying about copyright&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2011&comma; Screenrights commissioned ACER &lpar;Australian Council for Educational Research&rpar; in a qualitative project to find out how teachers are using TV and film content&period; Although the research was conducted in Australia&comma; the results were equally interesting for New Zealand teachers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>ACER found that this content was &&num;8220&semi;mainly used in the classroom to provide visual support for a teaching point&comma; to introduce concepts and as a stimulus for discussion&period; There was a clear consensus that it engages and&comma; in many cases entertains students&comma; and that it has become an integral means of delivering parts of the curriculum&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The research showed that educators are using television content to&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• provide current and topical examples from the media<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• provide captioned material for hearing impaired students<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• show examples of practical activities – eg&period; techniques to create visual works<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• aid for recollection and recall&comma; especially by language students<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• teach media students production values&comma; beyond what a teacher could give in text<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• generate ideas for creative writing&comma; debates&comma; role plays<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• reinforce a point &lpar;as a supplementary resource&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• understand body language&comma; behaviour<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• reach those learners who do not engage easily with written materials<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Copying documentaries&comma; films&comma; news and other programmes on television&comma; has been made easier with digital technologies &lpar;such as eTV&comma; ClickView and DVC&rpar;&period; Schools are embracing these systems to store&comma; access and play copied programmes broadcast from television&period; The digital library of recorded educational programmes is an invaluable resource&comma; and the systems are designed to find relevant content easily&period; And a digital library takes up far less space on the shelves than DVDs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Digital technology is not just a replacement for the video recorder&period; For instance&comma; teachers can embed programmes into courses for students to view in class or access from home&semi; and programmes can be easily accessed from laptop&comma; PC or interactive whiteboards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So how can schools copy the content on TV and comply with copyright&quest; By taking out a Screenrights TV and radio licence licence&comma; schools can&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Copy any programme&comma; anytime&comma; anywhere for its educational purposes &lpar;this also covers staff copying programmes from home for class&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Copy any type of programme – news&comma; movies&comma; language programmes&comma; light entertainment and anything else – it is all covered<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Copy from pay television or free to air<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Copy a short excerpt&comma; the entire show&comma; a series&comma; or anything in between<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Make as many copies as they need – there are no limits<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Download audiovisual material legally made available online<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Copy in any format – VHS&comma; DVD&comma; hard drive<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Use technologies such as Clickview&comma; eTV&comma; DVC and electronic whiteboards to store&comma; access and play copies programmes<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Keep copied material as an ongoing resource for future years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Screenrights licence can be obtained from School Trustees Association&period; STA offers a One Stop Shop copyright licensing scheme from 1 July to 30 June each year&comma; otherwise pro rata licences can be arranged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Where does the copyright licence fee go&quest; The money collected by licences goes to the copyright owners &lpar;producers&comma; writers&comma; music etc&rpar;&comma; in the programmes that are recorded&period; This is done on a non-profit basis with all money distributed after the deduction of administrative overheads only&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under the New Zealand Copyright Act&comma; where an unlicensed school copies a programme covered by the licence&comma; the school may be liable for copyright infringement&comma; unless it has obtained permission from each of the copyright owners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The benefits of using television content are clear&period; Television content &&num;8220&semi;helps teachers take kids out of the classroom into real world situations that would otherwise be difficult to access&comma; &lbrack;using a&rsqb; proven tool of learning and provide a good stimulus for further learning&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said one of the educators in the research&period; Digital technologies aid teachers in the discovery and delivery of television content&period; And the Screenrights licence means schools can copy from television without worrying about copyright&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>For more information&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Screenrights – www&period;screenrights&period;org&comma; licensing&commat;screenrights&period;org<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;NZSTA <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nzsta&period;org&period;nz&sol;nzsta-services&sol;copyright-licensing&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">www&period;nzsta&period;org&period;nz&sol;nzsta-services&sol;copyright-licensing&sol;<&sol;a> <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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