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 * CAMPUS: Using NFB.ca in the Classroom**

@https://www.nfb.ca/transaction/institutional-subscription/token/2584307320892477 NOTE: when you register, you may be told your CAMPUS registration is valid until March 31, 2014. This will be renewed until March 31, 2015 with no action needed on your part.
 * NEW 2014* - Simply click the link below to set-up your Campus Profile today!**
 * After using the link above, you simply need to visit www.nfb.ca, click sign on on the top right of your screen, and enter your registered account email address & password to access your personalized CAMPUS account.**

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An agreement between the NFB and the Ministry of Education of Ontario grants all Pubic and Catholic School Board K-12 educators in Ontario with access to CAMPUS! You can start using the benefits of CAMPUS today!======

Using 3400+ NFB films in the classroom has never been easier, quicker or more efficient! Our online content offer gives educators access to 600+ films not available for streaming to the general public, in addition to the 2500+ films already available in the NFB.ca screening room. The features are outlined and linked directly on our Education webpage: www.nfb.ca/education. It features an array of exclusive features to help teachers use our films in an educational context, including:
 * What is CAMPUS?**

-**Expert pedagogical evaluations** and descriptions of films, and how to use them in the classroom

-**Useful study guides** to accompany films, suggesting helpful strategies for group activities, evaluative resources and curriculum and age group targets

-**Advanced film browsing**: members of our online content offer can consult films by their appropriate school curriculum subject area and age group

-**Chaptering tool** for the films you’d like to show. Saving you valuable classroom time, you can prep your clips at home, attach useful website links and create your own description of the film(s). Once you’re in the classroom, your lesson is already planned and ready to go.

-**Creating your own Playlists** allows you to pre-assemble your films – and the chapters you’ve already identified as useful – ready to share with your students.

-**Sharing you own Playlists** allows you share your very own curated playlists to your students via email, class blog, blackboard (etc) or with your fellow colleagues.

-**Links to Interactive Projects** - see below for 24 different interactive project links you could use with your students


 * //BARCODE//**
 * Produced by Hugues Sweeney.** The objects around us serve many useful functions. They allow us to communicate, to move around, to get some fun out of life. They ensure our very survival. It’s through the objects that we acquire—and discard—that we measure the passage of time. Objects are also symbols. They have sentimental value, emotional power, cultural weight. They can become icons and metaphors—with their own hidden meanings and codes. BARCODE features the work of 30 directors—100 short films that decipher everyday objects, revealing what they say about us. Co-produced by the NFB and ARTE France, it’s an interactive documentary that can be experienced on a computor or as an iPhone app. A collaborative multiplatform production, BARCODE playfully disrupts the routine, inviting users to engage with familiar objects—and to see them in a whole new light. http://codebarre.tv/en/#/en


 * //BEAR71//**
 * Directed by Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison.** The true story of a female grizzly bear monitored by wildlife conservation offices from 2001-2009. Living her life under near-constant surveillance, her interactions with the wild and human world were tracked and logged as data. The project displays some of the 1 million photos (unbeknownst to the animals and humans) the creators gathered over the 11 years of the data capture. The project highlights how our growing dependence on technology divorces us from nature, even while allowing us to keep closer tabs on it. It raises questions about how we view nature, how we view ourselves in relation to technology and nature, and the nature and validity of surveillance both in the wild, and within human society. BEAR71 reimages the bear’s story from an omniscient narrative vantage point, turning the lens of technology on itself. The digital, interactive medium creates a vivid technological interpretation of nature for us to explore, and for the bear to inhabit as she tells her story. We’re watching her. She’s watching us. And at the same time, we’re watching ourselves. In the words of the bear, “Sometimes it’s hard to say where the wired world ends and the wild one begins.” http://bear71.nfb.ca/#/bear71


 * //BLA BLA//**
 * Directed by Vincent Morisset.** Driven by the viewer’s mouse clicks, **//BLA BLA//** is an interactive tale in six chapters populated by endearing characters generated using both traditional and high-tech methods. With the support of the NFB, director and creator Vincent Morisset (whose credits include the documentary MIROIR NOIR and the interactive music video be oNline B by Arcade Fire) takes an innovative approach to narrative, exploring human communication and addressing the challenges of telling a story with the spectator as participant. @http://blabla.nfb.ca/

From cinema-vérité pioneers Albert Maysles, Joan Churchill and Michel Brault to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris and Nick Broomfield — some of the doc world’s brightest lights reflect upon the unique power of the genre in //**Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary**//. Studded throughout areintimate interviews with 33 directors and clips from over 50 films — classics such as //Grey Gardens// and //The Thin Blue Line,// as well as such arresting recent work as //Darwin’s Nightmare// and //The Day I Will Never Forget//, offering insight into various aspects of the complex creative process. Combining an unalloyed joy in moviemaking with a deep knowledge of film culture, //**Capturing Reality**// explores the contemporary documentary scene with intellectual rigour, stylish originality and a fresh sense of discovery. @http://films.nfb.ca/capturing-reality/
 * //Capturing Reality//**
 * Created by Pepita Ferrari**


 * //Crash Course//**
 * Produced by Robert MacLaughlin.** Nobu Adilman visits Argentina to uncover the effects long-term economic instability can have on individuals - and specifically what he could learn about how to combat the recession hitting Canada. http://crashcourse.nfb.ca/#/crashcourse


 * //Fire//**
 * Created by Aaron Vincent Elkaim**. **//Fire//** is a visual essay about personal loss. Three years ago, his grandparents’ cabin caught fire. His grandparents already past years earlier, but this fire caused Elkaim and his family to confront the memory of their loss again. Beautifully written with stunning photographs. Synopsis directly drawn from source: http://interactive.nfb.ca/#/fire


 * //Flawed//**

Created by Andrea Dorfman.
Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman has the uncanny ability to transform the intensely personal into the wisely universal. In //**Flawed**//, she deftly traces her encounter with a potential romantic partner, questioning her attraction and the uneasy possibility of love. Hand-drawn postcards fly back and forth across the country as the love affair blossoms and artist and scientist become better acquainted. But ultimately, this short animated film is less about whether girl can get along with boy than whether girl can accept herself, imperfections and all. http://flawed.nfb.ca/#/flawed


 * //Flub and Utter//**
 * Created by Jordan Scott**. Scott manipulates language to mimic a lifetime of stuttering. For the non-stuttering reader the effect is initially bewildering, but after enunciating Scott’s poetry out loud the reader is pulled into his world of the emotional and physical turmoil that characterizes Scott’s relationship to speech. **//Flub and Utter//** is an interactive documentary about Jordan Scott’s memoirs of his stuttering and the meaning and metaphors he created to understand it. Synopsis drawn from: http://interactive.nfb.ca/#/flubandutter


 * //GDP: Measuring the Human Side of the Canadian Economic Crisis//**
 * Coordinated by Helene Choquette.** Since December 2008, Canadians have been living through a global economic crisis of unprecedented proportions. In a thousand different ways, the impact of this historic event has been playing out in communities across the country and around the world. This innovative new media project has taken shape under the direction of documentary filmmaker Hélène Choquette and her formidable team of directors and photographers based in a range of locations. Together they have embarked on an ambitious quest to document personal stories of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Started in September 2009 and completed in September 2010, these unfolding stories appear on this site. In all, over 185 short documentaries and photo-essays, each about four minutes in length, combine to create a mosaic of how Canadians are experiencing this crisis. Synopsis directly quoted from source: @http://gdp.nfb.ca/intro


 * //God’s Lake Narrows//**
 * Produced by Alicia Smith.** God's Lake Narrows doesn't get a lot of outside visitors. But neither does the reserve closest to you. Come on in, but check your assumptions at the door. http://godslake.nfb.ca/#/godslake


 * //Holy Mountain//**
 * Directed by Helene de Billy and Gilbert Duclos.** //Holy Mountain// is an interactive documentary directed by photographer Gilbert Duclos and writer Hélène de Billy, designed by the Departement creation studio, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada’s Hugues Sweeney. Taking a highly original interactive “tour” of **Mount Royal** as its starting point, the work probes the spiritual bond between Montrealers and their mountain. For the directors, the symbolic sites and rituals they uncovered bear eloquent testimony to the persistence of the sacred in our secular society, so seemingly detached from religious dogma. Poetic and sensitive, this “living work” is a love letter to Mount Royal, portrayed as a cultural catalyst of sorts – a gathering place for a vast array of identities and affiliations. Cameras and digital recorders in hand, de Billy and Duclos set off to meet the people of every creed and colour who love the mountain. And their subjects responded generously, giving themselves over to the encounter, sharing a meal, reciting a verse. //Sacrée montagne//, holy mountain… The original Web design by Philippe Archontakis and Nicolas S. Roy features striking, incremental 3-D imagery that includes photographs and video clips, some of which present well-known Quebec personalities like Dany Laferrière, Nathalie Choquette, Marie Chouinard, Xavier Dolan and Josh Dolgin “SoCalled.” The interactive environment spans six familiar areas: the cemeteries, the Cross, St. Joseph’s Oratory, La Renommée (a.k.a. The Angel), Beaver Lake and Mount Royal’s trails. @http://holymountain.nfb.ca/


 * //Main Street//**
 * Produced by Robert MacLaughlin.** Danny Singer's large-scale panoramic photographs let us explore the Main Streets of a number of prairie towns in minute detail. A place familiar in our everyday language and ideas but that we rarely actually visit. http://mainstreet.nfb.ca/#/mainstreet

Created by Myriam Verreault and Alex Leduc. An interactive documentary that examines the impact of the internet on interpersonal relationships and the construction of identity, through the eyes of eight young music fans. Each of them is marginalized in their own way… Twenty years ago they would have felt completely isolated an alienated from their peers, Today, they can connect anytime with people they relate to the most deeply. Synopsis drawn directly from: http://interactive.nfb.ca/#/mytribe/
 * //My Tribe is My Life//**

Created by Alicia Smith. “Photos are the tangible manifestation of memory. Our instinct is to run back into the fire or fights against the flood to save them”. Rummaging through a thrift store, smith came across a bag of photos, documenting one family’s experience throughout the 1940s. Exploring the emotional and physical attachment to photographs, Smith wonders what happens as our visual aids to our memories become increasingly digitized. Synopsis drawn from: http://interactive.ca/#/pleasecall
 * //Please Call, Very Sentimental//**

http://2nd.nfb.ca/#/2nd
 * //2nd – The Face of Defeat//**
 * Produced by Robert MacLaughlin.** An interactive presentation of Sandy Nicholson's photo book "2nd - The Face of Defeat". Nicholson took portraits of participants competing in a wide range of competitions, all of whom finished second. His portraits, accompanying event photos, and quotes from the competitors.

http://soldierbrother.nfb.ca/#/soldierbrother
 * //Soldier Brother//**
 * Created by Kaitlin Jones.** With //Soldier Brother,// Toronto artist Kaitlin Ann Jones contemplates a lifetime as she watches her 20-year old brother serve in Afghanistan. She stays in touch with him during the months he’s away via instant messaging – shorthand vernacular that’s at odds with the complexity of her circumstances and the depth of her emotion. This NFB interactive documentary delves into what it’s like for Canadian families coping in contemporary wartime. Through an exploration her brother’s possessions and their shared text messages, Jones examines the nuance of sibling relationships; her displaced role as ‘big sister’ in the face of what her brother is doing; the deficiencies of instant communication; the conflict of her own emotions; and the haunting, indelible feeling that there’s no turning back.

An exploration of new urban landscapes that records the passage of time and the encroachment of consumption on the spaces in our lives. In partnership with the newspaper Le Devoir. http://territories.nfb.ca/#/territories
 * //Territories – A Visual Essay//**
 * Created by Tristan Fortin Lebreton**

http://testtube.nfb.ca/#/testtube
 * //The Test Tube with David Suzuki//**
 * Produced by Robert MacLaughlin. //The Test Tube//** **//with David Suzuki//** is an interactive parable about our insatiable appetites, the fallacy of growth, and the things we can and cannot change. By combining interactive video with live data pulled from Twitter, the story illustrates the problem of increasing consumption, unfettered growth and how all 7 billion of us are connected by a simple mathematical reality.

http://thisland.nfb.ca/#/thisland
 * //This Land//**
 * Produced by Selwyn Jacob.** In 2007 documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan accompanied a military expedition to the northernmost tip of Canada to plant a single flag; the voyage represented the most extensive patrol of arctic in 50 years. Told through audio narrative, photographs and film, Whelan maps out the 16-day, 2000km voyage where she was not only the sole non-military officer, but also the only woman.


 * //W//****//aterlife Interactive//**
 * Directed by Kevin MacMahon.** //Waterlife Interactive// grew from the documentary //Waterlife// by Kevin McMahon. It's the story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on Earth, offering a creative and educational take on a pressing issue that directly affects over 350 million people. **//Waterlife Interactive//** builds on the film's stunning visuals and luscious soundtrack to create an immersive experience that allows users to explore the beauty of water and the danger in taking it for granted. @http://waterlife.nfb.ca/

Created, written and designed by: Paul Shoebridge & Michael Simons of The Goggles. Pine Point, a town located in the Northwest Territories, explores the memories of several townsfolk on growing up in a mining town. The documentary places their memories of the past with who they have become now, an intriguing look at how the future is always unforeseeable. Synopsis drawn from: http://interactive.nfb.ca/#/pinepoint
 * //Welcome To Pine Point//**


 * //THE HIGHRISE INTERACTIVE SITES//**
 * //Highrise//**
 * Directed by Katerina Cizek**. For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. Global urbanization is the defining trend of the 21st century. But “urbanization” may not take the shape one first imagines. It’s a new species of urban. The world’s cities are actually growing fastest at their edges. The fringes. The margins. The suburbs. A massive phenomenon is emerging — and it isn’t “downtown.” It’s called Global Suburbanization. And the ubiquitous highrise tower is the most visible symbol of that change. **//HIGHRISE//** is a multi-year, multi-media, multi-city documentary project, using the acclaimed interventionist and participatory approaches of the award-winning NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project. Our scale will be global, but rooted firmly in the FIR philosophy — putting people, process, creativity, collaboration, and innovation first. @http://highrise.nfb.ca/


 * //ONE MILLIONth Tower//**
 * Directed by Katerina Cizek. //ONE MILLIONth TOWER//** re-imagines the urban landscape, using the magic of cinema, architecture, animation and cutting-edge open-source web technology to transform a dilapidated highrise neighbourhood into a vibrant resident-led community. A documentary set in an HTML5 virtual landscape. @http://highrise.nfb.ca/onemillionthtower/

Synopsis drawn from: http://interactivenfb.ca/#/outmywindow/
 * //Out My Window//**
 * Directed by Katerina Cizek**, Produced by Gerry Flahive. One of the world’s first 360 degrees documentaries, exploring the state of our urban planet by the people who look out their high rise windows onto the world. A global journey through the most commonly built structure of the past century: concrete-slab high rise apartment towers. Meet the residents who cultivate meaning within these giant structures. **//Out My Window//** contains 90 minutes of material to explore, 49 stories from 13 cities, told in 13 languages.