Showing your students what textbooks can only describe

Students are at the forefront of the digital revolution. Everyday, they are downloading videos on iPods, playing video games, reading online news, contributing to networking sites, writing blogs – so why shouldn’t the classroom be as stimulating an environment as the home?

Clipbank, our video-packed service, is a special resource that students aged 11 to 16 – and their teachers – will enjoy using. We put clips into a learning context with their background, key words and transcripts just a click away. It’s a learning library in a format familiar to students, a perfect way to inspire learning.

Clipbank videos introduce concepts and reinforce learning objectives. Appealing to a variety of learning styles, Clipbank provides the visual and audio stimulation that
students really respond to.

Clipbank represents the best digital television clips taken from over 1,000 hours of
award-winning educational television. Currently with over 2,000 carefully selected and tagged clips covering eight subject areas, this continuously growing service offers breadth and depth of subject coverage that really makes the difference in bringing concepts to life.

Highlights include:
• Science – The latest technology is utilised in our science coverage, from using the latest 3D animation to provide a fascinating look inside the human body, to the
application of science in our daily lives.
• History – Featuring film footage from ITN’s unrivalled news film archive, students
witness historical events as they happened, including Malcolm X’s civil rights interview and the dreadful end of the Hindenburg airship.
• Geography – Investigate our world ’virtually’, from volcanoes and farming in the
Philippines to quarrying in India. Short of your own school field trip, everything you
need is here.
• Language Learning (French, German, Spanish) – Our three libraries include the 2007
Educational Resource Award-winning series extr@, a Friends-style sitcom setting that
makes instant connections with students and provides context to language.
• Design and Technology – Clips highlight real companies meeting design challenges,
including the complex processes of bicycle production and textile design.
• Business – ‘Work shadow’ businesses in a variety of settings as they tackle real-life challenges such as the redesign of the famous Marmite jar and the formulation of a start-up business plan.
• New subject libraries in development include: Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) & Citizenship; Mathematics.

At a glance
• Easy to use, straightaway – our user-friendly interface and controls spell the end of sourcing and cueing videos
• Navigation is intuitive, with the same interface throughout and subject colour coding to aid recognition
• Animated video previews save time so that users can see immediately if the clip meets their requirements
• Around 250 clips per subject library to start
• Each clip lasts between 1 and 5 minutes
• Each clip has a voice-over and graphics to enhance the key learning points
• Full-screen, true ‘television quality’ video – perfect for use on whiteboards
• Search across Keyword, Subject, Curriculum relevance, or Topic/Theme
• Fast-forward, Rewind and Pause controls – put you in control of the clips
• ‘Save Video’ button, allowing you to place clips easily into your own presentations
• A Teacher’s Resources area provides support materials that offer content descriptions, lesson plans and highlights how Clipbank meets curriculum requirements

Licensing Clipbank worldwide
Clipbank is available for licensing worldwide in two forms:

• Non-browser based – for use on an individual computer, or via a server connected to a local area network:
- Individual subject libraries can be delivered to licensees on DVD-ROM, which contain the clips in MPEG1 format, associated xml, plus user interface and a set of tools created for use in a non-browser-based environment

• Browser-based – for use on an individual computer, via a server connected to a local area network, or via high-speed broadband.
- A new browser-based interface and toolset is available allowing Clipbank to be
delivered across high-speed broadband.

We also provide licensees with a kit to aid with localisation (if required), consisting of unlocked source code, localisation forms, clips on Digibeta tape and scripts.

Please Contact Us for further details