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3.1 Ready-to-use resources developed with partners

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3.1 Ready-to-use resources developed with partners

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Europeana has also created – in collaboration with selected partners – numerous ready-to-use digital learning resources and tools that you can easily try and implement in your classroom. Do you want to know more? Keep reading!

The first resource we would like to mention is Transcribathon for education. This is an online collaborative tool designed with the partner Facts & Files, which allows students to transcribe and annotate documents related to the First World War, like diaries, letters, etc.

The possibilities offered by this tool are numerous, as you can choose from a large variety of handwritten texts and primary sources and use these documents in the context of any subject of your choice. This could be, for example, in History (related to WW1 and national/regional history), specific language classes, or in Civic, Social and Political Education programmes.

Transcribathon can be used in a wide variety of educational settings (from secondary to university level) and it allows students to work either in groups or individually. Besides, the tool is available in various languages, which helps students to engage even more fully with their heritage or to use it for language learning.

This is a very fun and powerful tool that can bring history to life, and that will help you engage students with history they don’t find in the textbooks. Do you want to know what students can learn from this tool? Have a look at this very inspiring video where students using Transcribathon shared their own experience with us.

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Learning Scenario Implementation   Fulvia Piccolo

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How does one use the thematic collections, galleries and exhibitions?

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How does one use the thematic collections, galleries and exhibitions?

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There are numerous possibilities to use the thematic collections, galleries and exhibitions. One example could be to use one thematic together with a gallery, as you can see in this learning scenario developed by Fulvia Piccolo, primary school teacher from Italy. With this scenario, Fulvia aimed to create an interactive e-book about landscapes, for which she used the European landscapes and landmarks gallery from the Europeana platform, which offers paintings of the landscapes and landmarks of Europe, showing the variety and beauty of this great continent. To develop her learning scenario, Fulvia also used the Europeana Maps and Geography thematic collection, which allows you to explore 468,404 maps, globes, charts and more from collections across Europe, as well as the Rivers and canals gallery.

Have a look at the video, where Fulvia explains how she has used the thematic collections to build her own learning scenario.

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Thematic Collections, Galleries and Exhibitions on the Europeana platform

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Learning Scenario Implementation   Miia Käär

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Exhibitions are vivid stories coming from the thematic collections that bring their highlights to life by adding interesting information and creating narratives that can be viewed in a new, visually appealing format. An exhibition has around 10-20 images, and additional videos or text explaining the context of the artworks.

Some examples of exhibitions that can be found in Europeana platform are the following:

Art (e.g. Art Nouveau - Universal Style)

Fashion (e.g. Past to Present - Fashion Reinterpretations)

Music (e.g. Recording and Playing Machines)

Photography (e.g. Industrial Photography in the Machine Age)

World War I (e.g. Sausages and Cigars for Christmas)

Here you can see an example of how Miia Käär, one of the 18 Developer Group Teachers, used the An Ecstasy of Beauty exhibition in her learning scenario, Work by Finnish Artists on World Map, which aims at raising awareness of Finnish art and sites/places/countries that the artists show in their work.

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Learning Scenario Implementation   Maria Antonia Brandao

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Galleries present a curated selection of images on a certain theme. Most of the galleries are related to the aforementioned thematic collections: Europeana Art, Europeana Music, Europeana Fashion and Europeana 1914-1918. You can access the galleries here. Licensing information is provided for all of the Galleries.

Some galleries that you can explore:

Art by female artists

Fashion illustrations

Women in World War I

Photographs of choirs from around Europe

In the following video you can see an example of how Brandão Maria Antónia, one of the 18 teachers in the Developer Group, used the Europeana 1914-1918 thematic collection and the Fashion from WW1 gallery in her learning scenario, War and peace...the changing role of Women In this video, Maria Antónia talks about how the implementation of the learning scenario went, lessons learned and advice for teachers considering using this same scenario in their class.

For English subtitles, please turn on the CC caption at the bottom of the video:

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Europeana Education - Using cultural heritage content and resources in the classroom #3

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Thematic collections are a more detailed dive into the highlights of popular topics on the Europeana platform. This makes it easier for you to find what you are looking for. Here is a list that summarises Europeana’s thematic collections:

Europeana Art – A thematic collection that gathers artworks, such as paintings, drawings and prints from European institutions.

Europeana Fashion – Demonstrates hundreds of thousands of catwalk photographs, historical dresses and accessories. Specific fashion-related filters (such as designer, item type, technique) help you narrow your search to find specific content.

Europeana Music – Includes more than 250.000 music recordings, pieces of sheet music and musical instruments. Under the banner of Europeana Sounds, the Europeana Radio project was developed to give people a way to discover and listen to the music from Europeana Music.

Europeana Photography – This thematic collection includes more than 1 million photographs.

Europeana 1914-1918 - Stories, films and historical material about the First World War. Since 2011, Europeana 1914-1918 has worked with partners in 22 countries to hold family history “roadshows” to which the public bring their documents and stories from the First World War to be scanned or photographed and added to the archive.

Europeana Migration - Dedicated to the theme of migration to, from and within Europe. This collection is still growing in 2018.

Are you curious about how to use the thematic collections? Watch this video of Madli-Maria Naulainen, secondary school teacher from Estonia, where she shares how she used the 1914-1918 curated collection.

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2.3 Thematic Collections, Galleries and Exhibitions

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2.3 Thematic Collections, Galleries and Exhibitions

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Our experienced teachers have devoted a lot of time to exploring the Europeana thematic collections, so have a look at the following tips for a more quick and efficient search in Europeana thematic collections.

When looking for information to implement in your lesson, search the thematic collections, as they are already curated, which will save you a lot of time.

When searching for material, you might find material for limited use; check the original source and its copyrights, as they might differ from the Europeana copyrights, for example.

When one first searches a thematic collection, it is easier to narrow down the search, especially for younger students. For example, landscape paintings are better found in the thematic collection and are ready for use. You save time, and it is difficult for younger students to search without a certain theme.

To search through the portal, you can use filters, but you should write the keyword properly, because if it is not spelled correctly, it will not work. It might be useful to use the search tips in the Guide to use in Education to help you with the search.

When searching for items in Europeana, you will see their copyright information. If the material you want to use has restrictions, do not give up, search through the restrictions! You might be able to use it for educational purposes. For example, the pictures in this scenario are of limited use in Europeana, but when one checks the original source, they appear to be under the Finnish national copyright system and are free to use for educational purposes, if the original author is mentioned.

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Guide to using Europeana in education.pdf

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Make sure you also check the Guide to Using Europeana in Education. This guide will walk you through the process of searching for and using Europeana’s content in education, and it covers topics such as copyright and licenses that allow educational reuse, or how you should credit Europeana content when you use it. The guide, available in English, French and Spanish, is of use to educators across all subjects, students and lifelong learners, developers of educational resources and educational publishers, and you can download it here.

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Are you wondering how to search in the Europeana Collections portal?

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Are you wondering how to search in the Europeana Collections portal?

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In the following video, Nair Carrera, one of the moderators of the course, will lead you through the Europeana Collections portal, where she will introduce you to the thematic collections and exhibitions, through which you will learn to browse to find inspiration for your next lesson. Moreover, you will learn about copyright and attribution issues when using Europeana content.

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2.2 How to Search the Europeana Collections

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2.2 How to Search the Europeana Collections

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For this activity, we would like you to explore the thematic collections, galleries and exhibitions in Europeana platform. Try to find one resource you think you can use to create a learning scenario. Then, explain what it is about and suggest some possible activities you may develop in this scenario.
These collections seem a really interesting opportunity for learning and I need to explore it more deeply. I think i would use the collection about migration for a learning scenario at school: in particular I would make a focus on photoes about italian migrants who left our country in search of a better life.

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2.1 Introduction to Europeana Collections

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2.1 Introduction to Europeana Collections

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What makes the Europeana Collections beneficial for teachers?

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What makes the Europeana Collections beneficial for teachers?

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If you are wondering about the benefits and advantages of using Europeana in your lessons, keep reading!

Teachers and educators usually face several difficulties when planning their lessons. On the one hand, they have to find a way to “liven up” their classes with new and exciting resources. On the other hand, it is vital to make sure the content that they use in the classroom can be legally used. The Europeana Collections is the best solution to all the aforementioned obstacles. This platform is a digital cultural open library which allows you to access resources of museums all around Europe. This platform not only provides a safe environment for finding resources, but it gives you the opportunity to find items that can be reused straight away in your lessons, and that have been previously curated by professional experts to assure the quality and the authenticity of the resource.

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Europeana Collections is Europe’s digital library, museum, gallery and archive that provides online access to a vast store of cultural heritage material from across Europe. Through this multilingual platform, individuals and professionals can discover, research, share and enjoy Europe’s wealth of digital cultural resources such as books, photos, paintings, television broadcasts and 3D objects.

Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you are looking for. The resources that can be found in Europeana include:

Texts: books, letters, archival papers, dissertations, poems, newspaper articles, facsimiles, manuscripts and music scores

Images: paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, pictures of museum objects, maps, graphic designs, plans and musical notation

Video: films, news broadcasts and television programmes

Sound: music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts

3D: virtual 3D representations of objects, architecture or places

The Collections include topics such as:

1914-1918 | • Music

Arts | • Natural history

Fashion | • Photography

Maps and Geography | • Sport

Migration

The Europeana Collections are created in collaboration with cultural heritage institutions around the world and include a refined filter tools option to provide better and more user-friendly search. Before you start browsing, it is useful to remember four questions that will make it easier to find what you are looking for:
Who? When? What? Where?

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Try it out: Have you had a look at the Europeana website? What is your first impression? Do you see some contents that could be useful in your classes? Share some ideas with your peers in the Padlet below to get you ready for the next modules!
I did not know Europeana, but it seems really useful. I have to spend some time exploring the website, especially the educational part and materials. I have seen mostly articles and objects related to contemporary history and I was attracted byt the specific material about WW1, so I will probably use it.

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In this video interview, Milena Popova, Business Development Manager of the Europeana Foundation talks about Europeana’s role in education and how teachers and student can benefit from it.

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Interview with Milena Popova, Business Development Manager at Europeana

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Europeana Education is an online space and an initiative to bring Europe’s digital cultural heritage closer to education.

Cultural heritage has a crucial role to play in education. Although educational curricula and national priorities differ, at the core of our educational systems we all want to make the most interesting and inspiring content available for students and lifelong learners. Europeana’s digitised collection of cultural heritage can provide multiple perspectives on historical, political, economic, cultural and human developments across Europe and beyond.

Europeana Education supports teaching and learning with innovative tools and resources like virtual learning environments (Historiana), eBooks (World War I: A battle of perspectives) or apps and games (Art Stories FACES). Some of the best examples for tools also include a Guide to using Europeana, which gives search tips and information on copyright and crediting, and Transcribathon, an online collaborative tool that allows students to transcribe World War I original documents such as diaries or letters and engage more fully with their past.

We will explore these resources in the coming modules.

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A guide to using Europeana for education

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EUROPEANA EDUCATION A guide to using Europeana for education Esbjörn at the Study Corner Carl Larsson, 1912 National Museum, Sweden Public Domain Europeana in...

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Europeana is Europe's digital cultural heritage platform. It currently provides access to over 50 million digitised items from more than 3700 European libraries, museums, archives and galleries. This huge database represents a great media, thematic and language variety – you can find images/text/audio/video/3D content on art, architecture, maps, films, natural history, fashion and more in over 30 languages. A big part of this content – over 20 million items – is openly licensed and can be freely reused in various work and learning projects.

You can easily search Europeana via key words or by colour, people, time period, and topics, or explore curated resources, ranging from virtual exhibitions and galleries to thematic collections on World War I, Art, Music, Fashion, Photography or Migration, with two new collections coming in 2018, Newspaper and Manuscripts.

The mission of Europeana is to transform the world with culture, unlock cultural heritage treasures and make them available online for everybody to enjoy, work or educate with.

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(European) Cultural Heritage in Education

Is cultural heritage included in the curriculum of your school? If so, please share with your peers where you are from and how cultural heritage is represented in your curriculum.
Cultural Heritage is not a subject apart in Italian school. It mentioned in our school guidelines, but I think it deserves a better definition and clarification about the concept. Educative guidelines should explicity refer to it as transversal present in each subject. In fact I think that each subject can help to develop the knowledge and the awareness about cultural heritage. Though it not explicity referred many subjects involves it in daily lessons, like history, geography, arts, music, civic education, literature and we, as Italians, feel it really important.

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1.3 Cultural Heritage in Education as European teachers see it

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Can you imagine a lesson without cultural heritage material? It is nearly impossible to teach any subject without it and it has been effectively defined as “an ideal way of giving meaning to the future by providing a better understanding of the past” (Textes adoptés par le Comité des Ministres du Conseil de l'Europe, 1998).

In the article ICT and Cultural Heritage Education: Which Added Value?, researchers argue that “a huge and fast increasing number of cultural heritage artefacts have become digital: this has a significant effect on cultural heritage education, both because the number of objects available is incredibly enlarged and because each single artefact can be regarded and studied from many different perspectives” (Ott & Pozzi, 2008). However, it can also be argued that ICT is still overwhelmingly used for maintaining cultural heritage artefacts rather than learning about them.

For these reasons, cultural heritage coupled with ICT is increasingly seen by teachers and educators as an essential tool in their daily classes that can be better exploited. We asked European teachers what they think about cultural heritage in the European context.

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2018: European Year of Cultural Heritage

Please come up with and describe in a few sentences a potential activity/event for the European Year of Cultural Heritage that you could organise in your community! Please share below!
I think that there are a lot of things that we can organize. First of all students should do some activities to know better the local territory. In the second phase, after having collected materials, they should create some products (websites, sheets, reasearchs) and finally they could share it online with other student's communities. It is a simple activity but with a strong impact.

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European Year of cultural heritage events grid

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European Year of cultural heritage events grid

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http://europa.eu/cultural-heritage/eych-events-grid

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European Year of cultural heritage toolkit

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European Year of cultural heritage toolkit

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http://europa.eu/cultural-heritage/toolkits_en

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1.2 2018: European Year of Cultural Heritage

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1.2 2018: European Year of Cultural Heritage

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2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The aim of this year is to encourage people to explore the richness of Europe´s cultural heritage, to celebrate its diversity (at EU, national, regional and local level), and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space.

This year, a series of initiatives and events will take place across Europe in order to enable people to become closer to – and more involved with – their cultural heritage. Throughout 2018, 7840 events will take place in a total of 28 countries, with 1,120,000 participants from all around Europe, celebrating the continent’s diverse cultural heritage which helps to shape our identities and everyday lives.

Each European Member State has appointed a National Coordinator to implement the year and coordinate events and projects at local, regional and national level. National Coordinators are for example responsible for granting the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 label. The label – containing a logo, a slogan and a hashtag - is available for projects, events and activities taking place between 7 December 2017 and 31 December 2018. The label is for initiatives that contribute to achieving one or more of the objectives of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage.

Everyone is invited to join the thousands of activities taking place across Europe to tie people more closely to their cultural heritage. If you want to find out about or join any of the activities taking place across Europe to celebrate cultural heritage, click here. Besides, you can find various resources such as factsheets and different toolkits at your disposal, in case you are interested in promoting the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. Finally, make sure you stay tuned about the latest activities happening in Europe during the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 by following this link.

You can find more information here.

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What Is Cultural Heritage?

How do you think cultural heritage can be best preserved?
I think that cultural heritage is all what is around us and it creates our identity. We shoud know and be aware of it, in all its complexity (material, immaterial, natural, digital, artistic, enogastronomic exc.). The best way to protect it is making people aware of its uncommensurable value and of the fact that our identity depends on it. So schools should have a great role in this with learning activities about cultural heritage but also in creating into student's mind an attitude of curiosity and protection towards cultural heritage. But all national and European community should be involved in this and feel involved (infact this should involve also informale education.

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European Year of Cultural Heritage - EYCH2018

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Humanity has been preserving cultural heritage for numerous years. This is important because it gives a solid basis of ideas and values to a group of people. Moreover, it can mean that people recognise their need to preserve the past and pass it on to future generations in the form of stories, objects, cuisine or traditions. Cultural heritage shapes our identities and everyday lives. It surrounds us in Europe's towns and cities, natural landscapes and archaeological sites. It is not only found in literature, art and objects, but also in the crafts we learn from our ancestors, the stories we tell our children, the food we enjoy in company and the films we watch and recognise ourselves in.

Official statistics also suggest that the preservation of heritage is vital: more than eight in ten European citizens think cultural heritage is important to them personally, and eight in ten citizens think cultural heritage is important for the European Union. The same proportion agrees that Europe's cultural heritage and related activities create jobs in the EU (79%) (Special Eurobarometer 466 (2017) on Cultural Heritage).

According to the Council of Europe (2005), “cultural heritage is a group of resources inherited from the past which people identify, independently of ownership, as a reflection and expression of their constantly evolving values, beliefs, knowledge and traditions. It includes all aspects of the environment resulting from the interaction between people and places through time.”

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I don't know this tool, but I do really like to learn new ICT tools and I hope to learn a lot about it and from other european colleagues

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I've always worked as an upper secondary school teacher and I worked there for 6 years. I have also worked abroad in Albania for one years, working as a L2 Italian teacher.

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Since this year I teach for the first time in a middle school. My students appear to be not so well preparared, but they're quite nice and have great potentialities.

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My name is Daniele and I'm 31. I'm a teacher of Italian language and history and geography, but I'm graduated in classics.