Module 2: Search and use Europeana Collections to teach your subject

Module's objectives:

Understand what the Europeana Collections are and the benefits of using them in your lessons;
Learn how to search the Europeana Collections for relevant content, navigate copyright information and correctly attribute cultural records;
Explore Europeana’s curated resources (thematic collections, online exhibitions and galleries) and the possibilities for using them in teaching;
Continue to explore the learning scenario.

2.1 Introduction to Europeana Collections

What are the Europeana Collections?

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.

ACTIVITY

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.

My opinion:

1. Language course

I would let my students choose a painting from a certain period of time and ask them :

a. to describe it

b. to compare paintings of this specific era

2. Math course

I would ask my students to measure the surface of paintings I have found in Europeana's library

3. Art course

I would ask my students to create an interactive poster (with the web tool Thinglink) with paintings of a certain painter.

4. Social studies course

The students have to find famous women artists.

Example :
Go to Europeana's site to the female statue of the unknown artist . On the left you will see the public domain picture of it.
Write in 300 words what does this woman thinks. Take into account the info you'll get from the site about the time and place created.

Padlet

2.2 How to Search the Europeana Collections

This guide Guide to Using Europeana in Education 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.

Activity > >

Europeana makes it easy for you to find content that can be reused for educational purposes. They do this by ensuring that each digital object is labelled with a rights statement that describes how you can use the object. After exploring the Guide to using Europeana in Education, we would like you to browse the thematic collections, galleries and exhibitions and find one object that can be reused in a lesson. Once you have found it, write a note on the Padlet and add the following information:

Title of object
Author of object
Type of license (how you can use this object)
Link to the object

As a teacher, you will find many ideas in Europeana´s thematic collections that will inspire you to create your next lesson. You will save a lot of time, as the content has already been categorised and curated. Besides, the thematic collections also include important characteristics (such as copyrights), which is extremely helpful for teachers who are planning to reuse the content in their lessons.

My contribution:

Title of object

3D statue of marble

Author of object

Unknown greek sculptor

Type of license (how you can use this object)

Public domain Free Re-use CC BY

Link to the object

link

Padlet

2.3 Thematic Collections, Galleries and Exhibitions

What are the curated resources: thematic collections, galleries and exhibitions?

Below is an overview of these three resource types you can find on the Europeana platform.

Thematic Collections > >

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.

2.4 The Learning Scenario, Step 2: Trends, learning objectives and skills

ACTIVITY

Once you have completed the preceding sections, it’s time to think about the relevant trends your scenario will follow (this can be, for instance, Social Media Learning, Mobile Learning, Game-Based Learning, etc.), completing the set of tools you started to work on in the previous module (both online and offline) and think about the learning objectives, skills and competences that the learner will develop and demonstrate within the scenario (e.g. 21st-Century Skills, such as communicative skills, creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, etc.). When you mention the skills your students will develop, make sure you also mention how they will develop this specific competence; so, the concrete activity that will help them to develop those competences, you will mention in this section of the learning scenario.

MY SCENARIO

2.5 Webinar: Discover Europeana for STEAM Education

Webinar on Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 16:30 CEST

In this webinar, Rafael Montero, secondary school teacher in Spain, and one of the 18 Developer Group teachers, together with Isabel Crespo, Business Development Coordinator in Education at Europeana, will be talking about how Europeana can be used in STEAM education.