Newsline from EDINA
April 2005: Volume 10, Issue 1
EMOL free until 2007
EDINA is delighted to announce that JISC has confirmed that the Education Media OnLine (EMOL) service will be free to institutional subscribers until 31 July 2007.
The term of the EMOL sub-licence will be extended accordingly. Existing subscribers need take no action now. Details of the procedure for extending the sub-licence will be circulated in due course.
New collections
In the first three months of 2005 the first titles from two new collections were added to EMOL: Royal Mail Film Classics and Digital Himalaya.
EMOL's Royal Mail Film Classics is a selection of 16 hours of films from one of the finest UK collections of documentary, public information, animation and industrial film, covering subjects ranging across transport and communications in Britain and abroad, the Home Front during the Second World War, British industries from fishing to mining, the nation's health - and developments in the Post Office service itself. Credits for the films include some of the best-known names in the British documentary movement, including Alberto Cavalcanti and Humphrey Jennings.
Digital Himalaya in EMOL is a selection of approximately 50 hours of material from one of the best ethnographic film collections documenting Himalayan cultures, which was created by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, who lived and worked as an anthropologist throughout the Himalayas from the 1930s through to the 1980s. Digital Himalaya also includes footage from other parts of the world, such as Mexico.
Using EMOL videos in science teaching
EDINA is also currently working with subject specialists to investigate current and potential use of the films and videos in EMOL in teaching. At a recent EMOL seminar, representatives from the HE Academy Subject Centres in Physical Sciences, Engineering, Materials and Life Sciences volunteered to commission reviews of EMOL films and videos in their subject areas, in order to evaluate how the films and videos could be used in teaching.
The outcomes of this review exercise will inform the development of the EMOL service, in particular how the EMOL films and videos can be used in current teaching practice.
Teaching colleagues will be invited to a joint workshop in June 2005, to present examples of current practice of using video in teaching. In support of this, we are keen to obtain or assist the production of case studies of the use of EMOL films and videos.
If you are interested in any aspect of this work, or If you have any queries about other aspects of the EMOL service, please contact the Helpdesk or telephone 0131-650 3302.