Teacher information

• The Arts: Strands
• Essential Skills
• Learning examples, by learning area
• Links
• Bibliographies
• Copyright and reproduction information

Discover supports the Arts/Ngā Toi curriculum and provides items and information for the Visual Arts and Music disciplines that can assist in lesson planning and also enliven classroom use.

For teachers of these disciplines Discover reflects the richness of these arts in New Zealand culture while also acknowledging the significance of toi Māori and tikanga Māori.

Resources are organised under 13 topics. Most topics include an essay and bibliography.

The long-term aim of Discover is to provide a range of digitised resources from the National Library collections that will cover all learning areas.

 The Arts: Strands

Discover can be used in:

• Understanding the Arts in Context (UC)
• Developing Practical Knowledge in the Arts (PK)
• Communicating and Interpreting in the Arts (CI)
• Developing Ideas in the Arts (DI)

 Essential Skills

Discover supports the following essential skills:

• Communication Skills
  
  
  • Use communications technology and electronic media
  • Communicate ideas, feelings, experiences and beliefs
  • Interpret and present their own work or others' work
    
    
• Information Skills
  
  
• Locate and retrieve information from various sources
• Analyse and synthesise information
  
  
• Social and Co-operative Skills
  
  
  • Understand the purposes of the arts within their own and others' cultures
  • Evaluate the different roles of artists in society
    
    
• Problem-solving skills
  
  
  • Learn to use tools and material efficiently and safely
  • Exercise imagination, initiative, flexibility and judgement as they explore ideas

 Learning examples, by learning area

The following links provide examples of how Discover can be used in specific learning areas:

• Visual Arts Learning Examples
• Music Learning Examples
• Other Learning Areas - Social Studies
• Other Learning Areas - English

 Links

As well as Discover here are a number of other related online resource providers supporting the New Zealand curriculum. They include:

• Dictionary of National Biography
  http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/
  Through the Dictionary of National Biography website you can access comprehensive biographies of prominent New Zealanders no longer alive. Over 3000 are available, including 500 biographies about significant Māori. The site also contains information adapted from the New Zealand Historical Atlas (1997).
  
  
• English Online
  http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/about/what.html
  English Online is part of an ongoing English professional development contract between the New Zealand Ministry of Education and UNITEC Institute of Technology in Auckland. The site includes units, a discussion list, internet resource links, and project information for teachers of English.
  
  
• NZHistory Net
  http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/index.html
  Provides a snapshot of different aspects on New Zealand history for anyone interested in New Zealand's past. Includes online exhibitions.
  
  
• Social Studies Online
  http://www.tki.org.nz/r/socialscience/curriculum/SSOL/index_e.php
  Covers a range of resources for Teachers and students, both online and contacts.
  
  
• SOUNZ: Centre for NZ Music
  http://www.sounz.org.nz
  Website of the Centre for NZ Music. Provides excellent links to all aspects of New Zealand music, musicians, composers and record companies.
  
  
• Te Kete Ipurangi (tki)
  http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/
  An initiative of the New Zealand Ministry of Education, TKI is a bilingual web site providing quality assured educational material for teachers, school managers, and the wider New Zealand educational community.

 Bibliographies

Bibliographies contain lists of further resources including books, CDs, videos and magazine articles. These are available to New Zealand teachers from the National Library. You can contact your school librarian, your nearest Curriculum Information Service Centre or you can request item(s) online.

Further related curriculum resources can be found by searching the following:

• Index New Zealand
  http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/innz/
  
  
• National Library's catalogue
  http://nlnzcat.natlib.govt.nz/
  
  
• Te Puna Web Directory
  http://webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz/
  
  
• Timeframes
  http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz

 Music items

Cadence is a database of choral sets and orchestral parts held by New Zealand choirs, orchestras and libraries. All items in Cadence can be hired or borrowed by New Zealand schools from the appropriate holding organisation.

The National Library Music Room can also help New Zealand schools with music enquiries.

Email: music.room@natlib.govt.nz
Phone: +64-4-474 3017
Fax: +64-4-474 3035

Write to:
The Music Room
National Library of New Zealand
PO Box 1467
Wellington

 Copyright and reproduction information

• Using and citing items
• How to tell if an item is in copyright
• Copying films and sound recordings (including recordings of music or songs)
• Further information

Most of the items on Discover are not in copyright. You can copy and use items that are not in copyright for any activity in the classroom.

Because the curriculum covers many different topics, we also asked artists, musicians, writers and organisations for permission to include some items that are in copyright. You can still use these in the classroom, but there are conditions that apply.

This section has been put together to help you identify whether an item is in or out of copyright, and to give guidance on using items that are protected by copyright.

This information only applies to using Discover in the classroom. If you want to use Discover items outside the classroom, or if you want to publish items, display them in an exhibition or make them publicly available in any way (for example on a website), you need to read and comply with the section on Using items in Discover.

The section on Using items in Discover also contains information about how your students can use Discover items for their personal work, such as essays.

Using and citing items

When you use items from Discover, you can't alter them in any way, for example, by manipulating, cropping, overprinting, or colourising an image. This applies to all items, regardless of their copyright status.

You also need to make sure that you and your students cite items correctly when they are used, as permitted, in classroom work (such as projects, research papers, folios). The easiest way to cite images is to copy and paste the citation accompanying each image from Discover into your document. For essays included on the website, use the citation that appears at the end of each essay.

How to tell if an item is in copyright

When you view an image or a text such as a poem, you will see a statement about copyright and reproduction.

The image is not in copyright if the statement is one of the following:

OR

The image is in copyright if the statement is one of the following:

OR

If the item is not in copyright

You can freely copy and use items that are not in copyright for any classroom activity.

If the item is in copyright

You and your students can view images, listen to the music clips and watch the videos online.

You can make one copy of a literary or artistic work (e.g. images and texts in Discover) to use during a lesson or in preparing for a lesson.

Where a text (literary work) is in copyright and not owned by the Library, you can make more than one copy of a small part of the literary work (e.g. several lines of a poem) if the section you copy is less than 3% of the whole work or less than 3 pages (whichever is greater). If you make more than one copy of a part of a work, no-one else from your school can copy it again within 14 days. If the small part of the literary work that you copy contains part or whole of an artistic work (e.g. an image within an essay), you will not breach copyright in the artistic work by making more than one copy of the literary work.

For all items in copyright, you should make sure that:

• You are only copying for a lesson at your school, or when you are preparing for a lesson; and
• The copying is done by you or someone else at your school on your behalf; and
• The copying is provided to the student free of charge; and
• You do not make multiple copies of the whole of an item by any electronic or mechanical means such as photocopying, printing or downloading.

The National Library owns the copyright in the essays and bibliographies in Discover so you are permitted to freely use and copy them more than once for any classroom activity. This does not apply to the essay for Music - Inspirational. Because this essay contains poems written by other people, you must follow the requirements that are set out above for using items that are in copyright.

Copying films and sound recordings
(including recordings of music or songs)

You can only copy films and sound recordings in Discover if you are teaching a language, if you are teaching by correspondence or if the lesson is about making films or composing film soundtracks. Only you or your student (or someone on behalf of you or your student) can make a copy and it must be provided to the student free of charge.

Further information

The outline of permitted educational uses of copyright material provided above is a general indication only. If you are unsure about what copies you can lawfully make, your school librarian should be able to help you with queries about copyright and using Discover in the classroom.

If you need further information about copyright, please contact us.