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Digital media

Film Australia's Digital Learning - Film Australia's digital learning finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION downloadable video clips from Film Australia’s remarkable archive—one of the nation’s largest and most historically significant collections.

General

Internet Public Library: Entertainment - provides web links for entertainment, music, radio, television, theatre, etc.

OzIndex - select from the appropriate category: News and Media and Entertainment for links to useful resources on subject areas.

World Wide Arts Resources - gives you access to artists, museums, galleries, highquality art, art history, arts education, antiques, dance, theatre and more.

Yahoo - search engine providing access to thousands of links on entertainment topics.

Film & television

American Film Institute (AFI) - US arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image.

ScreenSite - provides access to film and television resources to facilitate the study of film/TV. Includes links to a range of educational materials.

Australia Film Commission - in Australia a variety of separate organisations represent the collective interests of the film and television industry. The key organisations are listed on this Australian Film Commission (AFC) site. Please note from July 1, 2008, the AFC, Film Australia and the Film Finance Corporation will be amalgamated into the Australian Screen Authority (ASA).   

Media journalism

Australia Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) - pursues a broad and comprehensive strategy in supporting and developing high standards of independent journalism as well as educational and professional development.

Multimedia

Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA) - offers a forum to network and discuss a wide range of industry issues, including technology, content, copyright, interface design, interactivity and government programs.

The Online Communicator - includes pages on Multimedia and Writing for Interactive Multimedia, with links to high-quality, stimulating information.

Music

Artist Direct - provide multi-media music entertainment, news and information music communities to facilitate interaction between artists and fans. Includes a searchable database of artists.

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) - links to content from more than 300 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and includes retrospective coverage from over 165 periodicals dating back as far as 1874. .

RISM Online - is an ongoing international project to document all known musical sources of manuscripts, printed music, theoretical works, and libretti.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music - prepares gifted students of all backgrounds and nationalities for a professional career in music.

Radio

Airwaves.com - a US site dedicated to the art, business and science of radio broadcasting.

Ham Radio Online - provides links to a wide range of sites and resources about ham radio.

Theatre performance/technology

Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource site - provides creative drama, offers classroom ideas and theatre games, and gives helpful information on dozens of plays suitable for young acting groups, a lengthy book list and a discussion area.

Elder School of Music - University of Adelaide's new institution which results from the merger of the Elder Conservatorium of Music (ECM) and Flinders Street School of Music (FSSM).

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 21 September, 2007

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