The new BFI Screenonline Education Zone has launched and it's absolutely FREE!

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/education

Screenonline is the BFI's unparalleled online guide to British film and television, where you can discover nearly 3,000 titles, with over 450 hours of extracts and full-length films and television programmes from the vast collections of the BFI National Archives, supported by authoritative contextual analysis by expert writers, and thousands of stills, posters, production designs and contemporary reviews.

The new Education Zone has been developed to help all subject teachers (primary and secondary) get the most out of moving image in the classroom and provides a growing range of lesson ideas, starters, plenaries and teaching tips linked to featured films and television programmes. The resources are clearly categorised by subject and age group and have been developed to meet your curriculum needs.

So whether you are teaching farming or feminism, botany or the Boer War, BFI Screenonline has something for you. Dozens of lessons and other resources are already available and plenty more will be added over the coming months.

Screenonline is a FREE resource and there is no need to register. Your school should already have access to moving image material, however, in the event of any difficulties, please use the feedback form at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/feedback.html

This month's highlights in the Education Zone:

* Essentially British? : explore identity, citizenship and 'Britishness' using film and TV from the 19th Century to the 21st. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/education/essentiallybritish/index.html

* Spotlight On: Animation: A series of lessons, starters and plenaries using a variety of titles from Screenonline's rich collection of film and TV animation.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/education/id/1259146/index.html

* Show and Tell: Four teachers watch the fascinating Terminus (1961), which documents a day in the life of Waterloo station, and offer their ideas on using the film in their diverse subject areas.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/education/showandtell/terminus/terminus1.html

And elsewhere in BFI Screenonline:

* John Betjeman on screen

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/541095/index.html

* The tragically brief career of Bill Douglas, one of Britain's true poets of cinema http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/450700/index.html

* An Alec Guinness retrospective

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/449453/index.html

* Dozens more updates and additions

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/whatsnew/index.html