Screening Shorts is a range of hands-on, in-depth film tutorials for exploring moving image literacy in the classroom.
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Screening Shorts features over 40 licensed films from the world of fiction and visual storytelling for use in the classroom; allowing you to reach the same learning outcomes with your pupils, using film as a literary text.
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Screening Shorts features over 40 licensed films from the world of fiction and visual storytelling for use in the classroom; allowing you to reach the same learning outcomes with your pupils, using film as a literary text.
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A guide to different ways you can use moving image texts in your classroom lessons. Lots of ideas of how to get pupils engaging with films through literacy exercises and practical activities.
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Once you and your class have watched, analysed and discussed moving image text, you might want to get pupils to start making moving image projects themselves - with these creative ideas for you to try.
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Your guide to using moving image texts in the classroom and across the whole curriculum. They will show you how to discuss and analyse films, plan lessons and show you how other teachers use moving image.
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Additional resources to support your work with moving image texts. Many resources are themed towards specific films in our collection; others are general tools that can be used in many different contexts.
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Moving Image Education on the web; find many other useful resources from our directory of links to moving image education websites, organisations and practitioners.
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Moving Image Education grammar and language; look up and learn moving image 'speak' from this list of its most common words and their definitions.
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