Hi everyone
Here at Culture24 I've been working on this issue for the last 18 months or so, in an ACE-funded partnership project called Connecting Collections, with Nick & his Collections Trust team, Culture Street and Trinity's Arts Award.
We've worked closely with teachers and children & young people to ensure we're serving them the content they want in useful ways.
We've created the technical infrastructure to aggregate, tag and share all types of digital learning resources by tweaking Culture Grid and the Culture24 data entry system & database. We've got an API through which third parties can access that content and republish it in their own environments, where they have audiences. I'm at the beginning of conversations with TES and others about this.
We've also rebuilt our old Show Me site - www.show.me.uk - which is primarily child facing. We sent it live over the summer.
This is all very new - the hard work of gathering the content, doing the promotion and establishing partnerships to reach audiences is just beginning. You might have seen the site join Twitter last week - @ShowMeTeam.
We're aggregating and/or signposting the following content types:
- Digital collection records
- Games
- E-learning resources/web pages
- Videos
- Audio files
- Apps
- Venue info
- Exhibitions info
- Events info
Plus we'd love to showcase any relevant social media channels you publish for that age group.
Over the next 6 months we are:
- Launching an appeal to GLAMs for collections content (only up to 10 records each please) and links to anything else you want us to promote
- Creating, collating and signposting support material for teachers to help them navigate & use cultural content
- Establishing offline and online CYP working groups/ambassadors to source and interpret content & drive traffic in their communities
- Writing up & disseminating (via workshops, a blog and a conference) our user research & analysis of issues around discovery & engagement to inform future content creation
- Launching at least 2, maybe 3 content-sharing partnerships where leading educational publishers will republish GLAM content held in Show Me to their CYP/teacher audiences
- Running a pr & digital marketing campaign for Show Me
- Publishing and promoting a set of films around collection objects, for classroom use, made by Culture Street with CYP and linking to Arts Award
- Running a national coding competition for young teens, giving them cultural content to play with
- Making clear the links to Arts Award and providing support for teachers in tapping into GLAMs to deliver AA for their students
- Hopefully forming lots of interesting partnerships with GLAMs, funders, publishers, policy makers and others to ensure we're collaborating, not duplicating effort or resource and meeting audience needs as best we can.
I was going to post on the GEM list very soon with this info plus some supporting material to fill you all in and invite you to make use of the service. But, this thread beat me to it so am typing this on my phone from a train, hopefully you'll all get the gist!
If you'd like to share collection items, partner on competitions for children and young people, tell us about your resources and wider offer for learners, access the API or just find out more do email me:
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All the best, Anra
Anra Kennedy
Content & Partnerships Director
Culture24
> On 23 Oct 2014, at 10:33 am, "Emma King" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Jo and others
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> A really good question. I've done a lot of consultation with teachers over the last few years, often to inform HLF activity plans, and usually find they don't know where to look online for good quality resources. Google is the first port of call, as you might expect, but they'll search for specific topics rather for museum/archive resources particularly. I've heard mixed reports from teachers about the usefulness of TES, it would be interesting to know if other GEM members have used it or have any insights on how teachers do?
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> I've uploaded resources to TES and there is a steady drip of downloads but I don't have any way of knowing whether they are actually used or by whom. As a user, I find TES frustrating - there are some gems on there but an awful lot to wade through in order to find them. Anyone can upload anything and there isn't any quality control other than popularity. Perhaps in recognition of this, TES is now piloting charging for resources that it will pay teachers (and presumably others) to create. This might present a useful opportunity for our sector - though they are not currently paying very much!
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> I don't think I've seen the MyLearning website mentioned yet in discussions of online learning materials, though I'm sure Nick will have come across it in responses. www.mylearning.org is a huge online learning resource created specifically for the cultural sector and recently reached a million unique visits over 12 months. It was originally a Renaissance initiative but is now managed by Leeds Museums & Galleries. The team who run it have a teacher panel that reviews resources before they're published, collect detailed usage stats and can create resources for museums that don't have the capacity or skills to do it themselves. It would be worth a look.
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> best wishes
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> Emma
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> Quoting Jo Reilly <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> Morning Nick,
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>> We'll be interested in the collated responses in the strategy team here at HLF.
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>> Your first question prompts a wider one for me: where might teachers expect to find learning resources funded with public money? It's a question Darren Henley sort of asked in his review of cultural education and those of us still plugging away at trying to deliver his recommendations at a policy level (in England; but I need to be focussed on the UK picture) continue to wrestle with it.
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>> To this end, I'm interested in the potential of the TES site to be better utilised by cultural sector and to understand more about how teachers use and rate the resources we upload. Any views on this welcomed.
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>> In the old days, in order to try to influence reach and quality, especially in smaller projects, we could write into HLF learning guidance that the teaching resources we funded should be added to the National Grid for Learning. I'd be interested to know if anyone thinks we should now suggest sharing through TES.
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>> Thanks,
>> Jo
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>> From: List for discussion of issues in museum education in the UK. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Poole
>> Sent: 22 October 2014 18:55
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>> Subject: Question about e-learning resources from Museums
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>> Dear Gemmers,
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>> Please forgive my shamelessly using you as a focus group, but the Collections Trust is currently working on a project called Europeana Food & Drink which includes the creation of a set of re-usable Open Educational Resources based on museum collections for use by teachers at a variety of different educational levels, and we could really do with your help.
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>> Specifically, we are trying to answer the following questions:
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>> 1. When creating museum-based e-learning materials, is it better to publish them on the museum's own website (where they benefit from context) or via platforms which teachers already use, such as TES - or a combination of the two?
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>> 2. Are there standard formats for different types of e-learning resource and if so, where might we start to learn about them?
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>> 3. Do you have any experience of providing e-learning resources that work in a non-UK (ie. rest of Europe) context where key stage levels and curricula are structured differently?
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>> 4. Can you point me to any great examples of museums that have provided e-learning materials accompanied by guidance for teachers on how they ought to be used?
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>> Essentially, we are trying to ensure that the materials generated through the project are (a) useful and (b) used. We are aware of the need to engage directly with teachers, and there are one or two EU projects that have already generated quite a lot of insight into the subject, but we're really trying to educate ourselves first!
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>> Many thanks in advance for any advice you can offer on how we approach any of the above questions. If you are interested in the wider context of Europeana Food and Drink (I can't wait 'til UKIP and/or the Daily Mail get hold of this project...) there is more information at http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.eu.
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>> All best,
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>> Nick
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