1.
Using Open Media Resources in
Schools
Finding and using Open Media Content for Teaching, Learning, and
Developing Curriculum Resources

2.
“Information technology can help to equalise the distribution of high quality
educational opportunities throughout the world. In particular, having
learning materials freely available for adaptation and re-purposing can
expand access to learning of better quality at lower cost.
Unesco 2012
Open Educational Resources
Image Credit: World Map D Rumsey Map Collection

3.
What is Open Media & Content?
Digitised collections, resources and
media archives with open licences -
Public Domain CC0,
Creative Commons

4.
● Cultural and heritage organisations,
● Individual Galleries, Libraries and Museums
● Open content repositories and archives
● Repositories & archives that include Open Content
● Curation platforms
● Public bodies and governmental organisations
● Scientific organisations with archives
● OER (Open Educational Resources) repositories
● Non profit and crowd-sourced projects
● Individual Curators and Collectors of Content
With Millions (yes.... Millions!) of resources
More and more Open Media Archives

5.
1. Find images, video, audio that can be used freely, safely in all curriculum areas
2. Generate creative ideas for using digital content in all subjects
3. Improve research skills
4. Encourage critical thinking
5. Develop digital literacy
6. Introduce curation, metadata and tagging skills
7. Enable the world today to be viewed through a historical and cultural lens
8. Facilitate computational thinking
9. Give a context for applying ICT, computational thinking, coding and web skills
10. Enable remixing, repurposing and sharing
11. Help teachers and learners gain a practical, usable understanding of Copyright and IP
Benefits of using Open Content and Media in
school

6.
Search and Discovery

7.
Search and Discovery tools
http://photosforclass.com/ http://search.creativecommons.org/

8.
Curation
Gather, evaluate, assemble and
share content using online curation
tools: Pinterest, Scoop-it, Flickr ,
Pearltrees, Storify, Padlet
https://uk.pinterest.com/stepinput/group-wikipedia-wonderland/

9.
News!
Headlines, images, maps.
What questions can be
asked?
What conclusions can we
draw?
British Library
Critical Thinking
Old Bailey Online - http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

10.
Research skills
Text extracted from a PDF of a digitised book from the Project Gutenberg using projectnaptha.com and
then cross referenced with several sources

11.
Web Literacy Map: https://webmaker.org/en-US/resources
Belshaw, D; 2014. Mozzilla https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/WebLiteracyMap
Developing Web Literacies

12.
Learning Activities
image Credit: ESA, CC BY; http://www.eso.org/public/images/yb_vlt_moon_cnn_cc/

13.
Supporting Computing, ICT & Digital Literacy
Thanks to Miles Berry and Peter Kemp
Computing Progress, Ingots, Naace, Mirandanet
Computing At Schools http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/2078
Hodder Education (Grids) CC BY NC SA

14.
Computing, ICT & Digital Literacy
https://theok.makes.org/thimble/LTIxNjk4OTE4NA==/open-digital-content2

15.
Digital Stories
Whether fact, fiction or fantasy; 'Comic Strip' tools are a great way to introduce digital
storytelling Why not let pupils use CC licenced images to inspire their creative work?

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Using still images in conjunction with audio and motion (Ken Burns effect) has a very powerful impact on audiences, and is easily
achievable in school these days. Here are two interpretations of the song Pretty Saro, one by filmmaker Jennifer Lebeau with Bob
Dylan’s version, the other by Tim Riordan uses an openly licenced version of the song by Piers Cawley. Both use examples use the
1930s - 40s images from the US Library of Congress on Flickr Commons.
Digital Narratives

17.
Use open images to illustrate books for
example - childrens stories
Illustration
Credit, Ideas and Images; Zoe Toft: http://www.playingbythebook.net/2014/03/18/barbapapas-new-house-a-book-so-
good-im-featuring-it-for-a-second-time/

18.
Create inspirational or
motivational posters, add poems
or quotes, using Canva or similar
online design tools
Graphic Design

19.
Add interactive (hypertext) notes and comments
to any online images or video you discover or
upload.
Link to information from Wikipedia, YouTube.
Hyperlink images to to create a digital story.
Ask visitors to add notes, fill in missing
information, for example faces, signs or objects.
Of course these kind of open tools could lend
themselves to ‘mischief making’........
Annotated Images
Link

20.
Many of the B&W photographs and
illustrations from the BL digital collection on
Flickr can be considered suitable for hand
colouring
The example here used a free online
browser based photo-editing software to try
and recreate the ‘traditional’ hand coloured
look. However one could take a much more
radical approach with some of the
Hand Colouring old photographs

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Quizzes
Google Doc (forms) make it easy to create unique, engaging quizzes and surveys with free and
open images and video

22.
Mapping
The British Library collection is a goldmine for maps,
and cartography related content. Here a map of Rome
from the British Library has been overlaid on Google
Earth as a layer,

23.
Using a collaborative online mind map to analyse an image,
You can add ideas here: https://mm.tt/404379984?t=IyYVFM9KQq
Analysis and Visualisation

24.
Combining today’s simple digital cameras, mobile
devices with the availability of historic images and
easy to use editing software (including online tools)
we have a great opportunity to bring past and
present together in video formats.
Here is a remarkable example of a Then and Now
video mixing contemporary footage with the work of
the 1920s, cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene.
See also: HistoryPin,
Simon Smith http://youtu.be/5kml92pPjx0
Then & Now - Time Travelling

25.
There are a number of excellent online timeline
creation tools available. TimeLine JS (top) requires
some spreadsheet data skills and computational
knowledge is useful
http://timeline.knightlab.com/
Histropedia links to articles in Wikipedia & social
media create events on a timeline on the ‘fly’
http://www.histropedia.com/
Both are free and open collaborative projects.
Credit: Advertising Timeline Sara lomax & Sara
Wingate Gray
http://curatorial.artefacto.org.uk/timeline-demo
Timelines

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Interactive Video Remixes
http://www.videonot.es/ Link to
VideoNote Remix

27.
Minecraft - Links creativity & computing
Statue credit Yr6 Class @ Porchester Junior Nottingham (11yo)
Using a historical and cultural images as an inspiration
for computer modelling with Minecraft. Article
Minecraft Castle credit: Delta 139 https://www.flickr.com/photos/delta_139/

28.
3D Modelling
Using a historical image as an inspiration for computer
modelling with Minecraft.
Article

29.
Modelling
https://sketchfab.com
Model of Comet 67P
(Rosetta Mission) on
Sketchfab by Steren
Giannini
Overlaid on to a Public
Domain aerial view of
London
Comet Model Credit:: Steren Giannini, CC BY, https://skfb.ly/BMRK

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Games
City Map: D Rumsey Map CollectionGames: https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

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Metatadata Games
http://museumgam.es/dora/ http://www.metadatagames.org/

32.
Example: Computing Lesson: Digital Literacy
http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/Computing_-_re-using_images
https://drbadgr.wordpress.com/

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http://opencontenttoolkit.wikispaces.com/
Introducing the Open Content Toolkit

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An invitation to teachers, please ..... Join Us
http://opencontenttoolkit.wikispaces.com/

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Other Initiatives - Leicester LEA
Leicester LEA has:
1. Allowed all its 84 schools to
create and share Open
Educational Resources (OER)
2. Published guidance & legal
frameworks for schools
3. Provided excellent
downloadable resources to help
schools get started with this
initiative
Credit: Josie Fraser @josiefraser
http://schools.leicester.gov.uk/ls/open-education/
http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/11/10/making-oer-mainstream-in-schools/

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Thank You
Twitter: @Theokl, Contact info: http://about.me/theo.kuechel
Finding and using Open Media Content for Teaching, Learning, and
Developing Curriculum Resources
Open Content Toolkit : http://opencontenttoolkit.wikispaces.com/