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This is part of UCF's free online "Intellectual Property Rights for Educators" course.

This senario is an "introduction to music copyright". In introduces how lecturers can request permission to use music and audio files in their lectures.

This is a fairly common theme / issue faced by lecturers in terms of preparing their r teaching materials.

IPR4EE course website: http://openspace.falmouth.ac.uk/courses/ipr-educational-environments-ipr-education

This video is part of UCF's free online "Intellectual Property Rights for Educators" course.

This is a continuation of Part 1. The scenario covers a situation where a lecturer uses images from a magazine (in this case, a prestigious one) in her campus-based lecture. She'd like to put this lecture online and make it freely available. The scenario covers what she needs to do with the images, owned by someone else, that have traditionally been used in the lectures.

This is a fairly common theme / issue faced by lecturers in terms of preparing thier teaching materials.

IPR4EE course website: http://openspace.falmouth.ac.uk/courses/ipr-educational-environments-ipr-education

This video is part of UCF's free online "Intellectual Property Rights for Educators" course.

This scenario covers a situation where a lecturer uses images from a magazine (in this case, a prestigious one) in her campus-based lecture. She'd like to put this lecture online and make it freely available. The scenario covers what she needs to do with the images, owned by someone else, that have traditionally been used in the lectures.

This is a fairly common theme / issue faced by lecturers in terms of preparing thier teaching materials.

IPR4EE course website: http://openspace.falmouth.ac.uk/courses/ipr-educational-environments-ipr-education

This introduction is aimed at educators working in higher education designing or developing resources for teaching and supporting learning. It is particularly relevant to those using digital content from a variety of sources who want to ensure you are attributing authorship correctly.

The six-minute animation is accessible and colourful, portraying in a light-hearted way some of the issues involved via three typical case studies: a researcher, a lecturer and a student. These examples pinpoint areas where confusion exists, or even where many may not consider IPR to be an issue at all, and signpost back to the online diagnostic tool for further guidance and information.

As Web2Rights (http://www.web2rights.org.uk/) IPR consultant Naomi Korn says: ‘Web 2.0 has revolutionised education and practice, and in a very positive way, but there is a lack of understanding regarding copyright, and whether it applies. The basic fact is that IPR holds just as strongly with Web 2.0 content as it does with more traditional forms. The process of considering IPR should ideally be built in to every stage of creating or repurposing content found on the Web. This doesn’t have to be an onerous task – and our diagnostic tool aims to make this as clear a process as possible – but it can take time and effort. The animation highlights the issues in a very approachable way, and we hope this raises awareness among users in HE and FE to take IPR within their Web 2.0 activity seriously.’

Lawrie Phipps, Programme Manager for the Users and Innovation programme (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/usersandinnovation.aspx) which initiated the project, added: 'The web2rights tool is of an extremely high quality, blending sound legal and policy advice with pragmatic solutions to ensure that IPR is not an inhibitor for learning, teaching and research activity. We hope that what was initially put in place to advise and support JISC projects will have much wider benefits for those across education as a whole, with the animation playing a key role in raising awareness.'

Visit the Web2Rights8 website: http://web2rights.org.uk/
Read about JISC’s work in the field of IPR: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/topics/legalethical/ipr/iprconsultancy.aspx
Visit JISC Legal: http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/
Explore the Guardian's JISC-sponsored Digital Student supplement: http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalstudent

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose / Aim of this Session:

Welcome to session ten in which we will assign you mini-research projects.

In this our final session we need to turn our attention to the outside world, away from the relative sanctuary of the security of studying. It's an exciting time and a scary time but before you embark on your journey let's plot a route.

In this session we will be focusing on agents, producers, broadcasters, opportunities, and how to conduct yourself as a writer. For this session, we must to largely put aside the creativity of a writer and view of ourselves as business people. 

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the film that accompanies this session
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose / Aim of this Session:

• Part One: Outlines and treatments.

• Part Two: Is Your Big Idea Big Enough?

For most of this session we will look at your idea for your final project but first we'd like to turn your attention to Outlines and Treatments and step outlines.

With this session in mind, we recommend reading How to Make Money from Scriptwriting by Julian Friedmann published by Boxtree. Friedmann, a well established agent, was instrumental in starting the Screenwriter’s Festival and runs courses for script editors.

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the film that accompanies this lecture
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose / Aim of this Session:

Welcome to Week Eight where we will explore different areas of, let's call it, the Moving Image Industry because there are lots of non traditional opportunities in an ever changing and expanding industry if you know where to look.

In this session we will get you started with a brief run down of the different opportunities and the details of one organisation that works in this field.

How this Session Works:

 
1. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
2. Listen to the lecture
3. Do the assignments for this session
4. Watch the suggested film clips and the Movie of the Week
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose / Aim of this Session:

Welcome to week seven where we will explore visual and atmospheric storytelling throughout a scene and a script. 

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the suggested films
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session  

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose / Aim of this Session:

Welcome to our sixth session where we will explore the craft of dialogue. 

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the film that accompanies this lecture
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose / Aim of this session:

Welcome to Session five of our online course. In this session we will be looking at one of our favourite aspects of screenplay writing – character development. Who are your characters, how do they think, feel and act?

This session has been split into two parts:

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the film that accompanies this lecture
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose/Aim of this Session:

In this session we will study different dramatic forms and genres . We also look at inspiring films and filmmakers. By combining theme with dramatic form, we will explore ways of finding your own voice.

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Listen to the lecture
3. Do the assignments for this session
4. Watch the film that accompanies this lecture
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session  

When we write we're not just completing a mechanical, technical exercise. The theme we explore is the reason we write because we want to understand the world better than we did before.

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose/Aim of this Session:

Welcome to Week Three but before starting let’s recap:

• In week one we looked at IDEAS
• In week two we looked at the THREE ACT STRUCTURE
• And you have tackled a short story for your homework that follows the three-act structure.

Now we are ready to explore THEME and start developing ideas for your portfolio. 

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the film that accompanies this lecture
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

A scriptwriter is a storyteller, like a novelist, playwright or short story writer. To write a screenplay you must be a craftsperson, which can be taught, and talented that cannot be taught – but it can be nutured and developed. The craft helps you understand and apply screen language, the talent is the ability to interpret the world around you, coherently, creatively, dramatically, with meaning and originality. If you can achieve all that you're a writer whether you are paid to write or not. To help you achieve this let's spend this week looking at dramatic structure....

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the film that accompanies this lecture
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

Our screenwriting unit is designed to build your knowledge about story telling and focuses on the writing of TV, radio, short film and feature film scripts.  Whilst primarily dealing with forms of dramatic fiction, you'll also look at documentary and documentary drama. You'll analyse different forms of script writing and screen writing, the elements they have in common and the specific tools that can help to deliver better scripts in each medium.

Tutor:  Jane Pugh

Purpose / Aim of this session:

Our first week's work is two fold:

In Part One: We will discuss what is scriptwriting, what does a scriptwriter do, and how do they do it? Finding ideas and choosing your subject, research and where inspiration comes from.

In Part Two: You will begin to write and develop a portfolio of ideas.

For this session you will need...

• A note pad and pen.
• There are a total of four exercises we would like you to complete, one of which is ongoing. You can either listen to the lecture in full and then complete the exercises, or pause the lecture to complete the exercises as you go along. 

How this Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Watch the film that accompanies this lecture
6. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session

Tutor:  Richard House

About the Novel Writing Unit

The full Novel Writing unit offers MA Professional Writing students the opportunity to develop a sound creative writing structural foundation on which they can build a novel. It rapidly develops the disciplined practices essential to the organisation of an extended piece of work. Emphasis is placed on efforts to realise and manage the problems inherent in developing a long creative writing composition. The lectures in the full course unit focus on the elements that constitute the building blocks of the novel, while  peer critiquing helps them develop their story. Equally important aspects of the full unit encompass story writing, story telling, story development, book publishers, market research and the book publishing industry. 

Purpose/Aim of this Taster Session:

The aim of this session is to introduce you to the principles of novel writing. 

How this Taster Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

Tutor:  Oliver Bennett 

About the Feature Writing Unit

Encompassing business writing, the full Feature Writing unit encourages MA Professional Writing students to explore and develop the research, story development, writing and editing skills necessary for effective newspaper, magazine and online feature writing. They also develop an understanding of article marketing, article submission and the career opportunities for writers in this field and consider the ways in which it is changing. Students present, analyse, discuss and produce a variety of different examples of feature writing, building a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the genre alongside a portfolio of marketable features.

Purpose/Aim of this Taster Session

To define what a feature is, within the context of newspapers, magazines and websites. To examine what differentiates a feature from other aspects of journalistic practice.

How this Taster Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

Tutor:  Karenanne Knight

Purpose / Aim of this Taster Session

This is the second of a two-session part of the Writing for Children unit. In this second session you will develop an understanding of your chosen age group and begin to build up a portfolio of ideas and characters for stories for that age range.

How this Taster Session works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session 

"Understanding age and stage - write for the right height"

Tutor:  Karenanne Knight

Purpose / Aim of this Taster Session

This is the first of a two-session part of the Writing for Children unit.   The creative writing focused unit and aims to give you an understanding of what age group / stage you want to write for and appropriateness of such. Why is this so important? Writing a book for children requires the ability to identify the appropriate age group to which to match your story. This session will also introduce you to the varied styles and genres of kids books, story writing, story telling and book publishers.

How this Taster Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Watch the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session

Tutor:  Tom Scott

About the Writing Creative for Business Unit

The full Creative Business Writing unit allows MA Professional Writing students to explore and develop the research, writing and editing skills that go into producing various types of business writing, including factual and persuasive writing for business and non-profit organisations. Our students start to build a portfolio of high-quality business writing work that spans a number of different formats and contexts – from press releases to web copy – develop an understanding of career opportunities for business writers and consider the ways in which the field is changing.

Purpose/Aim of this Taster Session

In this session we'll be looking at the sort of things business writers do and that you might be doing. At the end of this introductory session, you should have an idea of the range of purposes underlying written business communications for not-for-profit organisations, and the wide variety of forms that such writing takes. You'll be trying your hand at a couple of short business writing assignments, and should gain a sense of how working in this area can be creatively challenging and fulfilling.

How this Taster Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Watch the lecture video
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session

Tutor:  Susannah Marriott

About the Non-Fiction Unit

Students who take the non-fiction writing unit on MA Professional Writing develop an understanding of the career opportunities for writers in the field of specialist and general non-fiction writing... and consider the ways in which this field is changing and developing.

The main vehicle for this is an ongoing project, usually writing a book but in the past students have produced websites or extended magazine features. The books have included memoir, historical biography, narrative quest stories and how-to manuals.

This podcast conatins only the audio lecture.  If you would like to acess the full free-to-study unit, you will need to go to the Non-Fiction Unit on OpenSpace:

Purpose/Aim of this Taster Session

This is a taster session to provide you with writing tips and introduce you to the breadth of opportunities in non-fiction book publishing and to help you develop an idea for writing a non-fiction book. Please note that this is a taster - a general introduction to a subject - with content that is updated each year in the actual MA course at UCF.

How this Taster Session Works:

1. Read the Student's Notes
2. Do the background reading that accompanies the lecture
3. Listen to the lecture
4. Do the assignments for this session
5. Post your course work, discuss this session and provide your peer feedback & critiques in the forum that accompanies this session