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About Films for Learning

Films for Learning was developed from ideas generated by a Dorset school's Leading Edge development team in 2005 and was primarily funded by NESTA (the National Endownment for Science Technology and Arts). The idea behind Films for Learning is to enable teachers and students to make their own custom video resources that they share online, inspiring other students teachers and schools to use them, as well as make and contribute their own.

You can find our more about our films and projects >>>HERE<<<<

NESTA funded a first phase of the project in 2005: a series of workshops at the Thomas Hardye School (http://www.thomas-hardye.dorset.sch.uk/), run in collaboration with the creative consultancy Toolkit (http://www.toolkit.uk.com/).

You can see a documentary video featuring a number of FFL workshops on the Community Homepage. The first workshop resulted in the production of a simple FFL website and the first collection of videos. These films can be seen in the FFL Theatre ‘Watch Films’ section. As you can see we have come along way since the first website! By the way... this great website was built by Universal Pixel Design (http://www.universalpixel.com/) and funded by Microsoft.

The first phase of Films for Learning was a great success and rolled neatly into the second phase. We continued to work with teachers and students in partner schools throughout the country to spread the learning model. During the summer term of 2006 we delivered a number of different film workshops which were supported by industry experts.

A new collaboration between Films for Learning and Dream Ireland (http://www.dream-ireland.com/) meant that we were also be able to offer animation workshops both within DASP (http://www.dasp.org.uk/) and to other interested schools.

Films for Learning was supported by the Leading Edge National Collaborative throughout 2005 - 06. The Leading Edge National Collaborative are particulary interested in supporting projects such as this, where innovative use of ICT or Digital Media are being used to raise levels of attainment particularly amonst the lowest performing 20% of students.

2007 has been a really exciting year. It all started when with a chance meeting at BETT with Paul Foster, Microsoft's Platform Evangelist. Paul offered his support which has led to the creation of this website.

We have also received support from the Innovation Unit's (http://www.innovation-unit.co.uk/) Next Practice project and collaborated with Planet Scicast (http://www.planet-scicast.com/).

Since the inception of this project, The Thomas Hardye School have provided FFL with teaching and support staff, equipment and facilities. The South West Grid for Learning (http://www.swgfl.org.uk/) also provided web space and hosting for the first website.

Looking to the future we hope that this website will encourage more students, teachers and schools to contribute to Films for Learning. We want to make this one of the best digital media resources available to education today. Upload a film today, contibute to the blog or contact us if you think you can help!