Isabel Crespo

Collection Engagement

Business Development Coordinator, Education Europeana Foundation Netherlands Cultural Heritage

Member of Education Community | Member of Impact Community

Isabel develops partnerships with relevant players on the educational market, including ministries of education, commercial and noncommercial educational organisations.

News posts

Title:

Rediscovering Arbatax Red Rocks’ space on Mozilla Hubs

Creator:

screenshot. ML. Onida

Date:

2022

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 24 April 2023 Isabel Crespo

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part III

Education New-european-bauhaus Built-with-bits

If you are a cultural heritage professional and wonder what immersive technologies have to do with education, or how they can help you to engage with young audiences, look no further than this Pro news series! Over three posts and through a focus on Europeana’s Built with Bits programme, we answer the question: why use immersive technologies in education?

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Title:

Caprera War and Peace Museum’ space on Mozilla Hubs

Creator:

screenshot. L. Palumbo

Date:

2022

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 19 April 2023 Isabel Crespo

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part II

Education Built-with-bits

If you are a cultural heritage professional and wonder what immersive technologies have to do with education, or how they can help you to engage with young audiences, look no further than this Pro news series! Over three posts and through a focus on Europeana’s Built with Bits programme, we will answer the question: why use immersive technologies in education?

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Title:

‘Bologna Untold’ space on Mozilla Hubs' screenshot

Creator:

D. Federici

Date:

2022

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 13 April 2023 Isabel Crespo

Nine things you need to know about immersive technologies for education: part I

Education New-european-bauhaus Built-with-bits

If you are a cultural heritage professional and wonder what immersive technologies have to do with education, or how they can help you to engage with young audiences, look no further than this Pro news series! Over three posts and through a focus on Europeana’s Built with Bits programme, we will answer the question: why use immersive technologies in education?

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Title:

Tytöt katsovat televisiota juhlamekoissaan

Creator:

Kanerva, Teuvo

Institution:

Finnish Heritage Agency

Country:

Finland

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 13 February 2023 Isabel Crespo Georgia Evans

How the Watching Videos Like a Historian project will support media literacy throughout European classrooms

Projects Education

Watching Videos Like a Historian is an Erasmus+ project which will equip educators to use audiovisual resources when teaching media literacy, supporting students to become conscious and critical citizens. Discover the project and access the first resources it has produced.

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Title:

Digital Education with Cultural Heritage promotional graphic

Creator:

Europeana Foundation

Date:

January 2023

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 24 January 2023 Isabel Crespo

Register now for the upgraded ‘Digital Education with Cultural Heritage’ 2023 MOOC

Education Mooc

This year, our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will be offered in English and Romanian. It has upgraded content and more resources for integrating audiovisual materials (AV) into learning practices. And for the first time, the course offers ready-to-use resources for post-secondary educators. Find out what the course covers, why you should join and how to sign up.

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Title:

Built with Bits Brussels Workshop 11 June 2022

Creator:

Europeana Foundation

Date:

May 2022

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 1 June 2022 Isabel Crespo Beth Daley

Built with Bits Brussels kicks off at Festival of the New European Bauhaus

Education New-european-bauhaus Built-with-bits Built-with-bits-interviews

Built with Bits Brussels kicks off on Saturday 11 June 2022 as part of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus. This educational challenge invites students, educators and residents of Brussels to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies to imagine improvements to real spaces in Brussels.

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Title:

Christine de Pisan from BL Harley 4431, f. 3

Date:

c. 1410-c. 1414

Institution:

British Library

Country:

Rijksmuseum

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 31 May 2022 Isabel Crespo

Bringing digitised medieval objects into compulsory education

Projects Education

The ‘Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA) project saw curators work with educators to design inspiring and innovative learning materials using digitised medieval manuscripts. Find out the work done for pupils in primary and secondary schools.

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Title:

The making of the video series: Irene O’Daly and Sean van der Steen in the Special Collections Reading Room of Leiden University Libraries.

Creator:

Erik-Jan Dros (photographer)

Date:

2021

Institution:

Leiden University Libraries

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 12 May 2022 Isabel Crespo

Teaching with digitised medieval manuscripts in post-secondary education

Projects Education

In the ‘Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA) project, curators from different European heritage institutions and educators joined forces to design innovative learning materials for higher education with digitised medieval manuscripts. FInd out more about their work.

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Title:

Spel "Robot"

Creator:

Jumbo

Date:

1955

Institution:

Deventer Museums

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 6 January 2022 Isabel Crespo

Sign up now for the Europeana MOOC ‘Digital Education with Cultural Heritage’

Education Mooc

We are delighted that Europeana Education and European Schoolnet are organising a rerun of the education MOOC ‘Digital Education with Cultural Heritage’! Read on to find out what it will cover, why you should join and how to sign up.

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Title:

The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies

Date:

1599

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 30 August 2021 Isabel Crespo Giuseppe Mossuti Elisavet Vlachou

Digital cultural heritage in education – a tool to navigate difficult times

Education Open-education Teachers Mooc European-schoolnet education-theme-2021

During the 2020-2021 school year, the global pandemic has posed new challenges to the field of education. Explore how Europeana and European Schoolnet joined forces to help formal and non-formal educators find new ways of integrating digital cultural heritage into their activities.

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Title:

A coral reef in the Red Sea. Colour line block.

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 1 February 2021 Isabel Crespo

Introducing the Europeana MOOC ‘Digital Education with Cultural Heritage’

Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Education Open-education Mooc

Our MOOC for 2021 is designed to empower educators to use digital technology and bring cultural heritage into their lessons and practices, whether in a classroom, museum, or library. Find out why you should take part and how to sign up!

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Title:

Untitled [school girls in a line] from the series On a Good Day

Creator:

Al Vandenberg

Date:

1979

Institution:

Victoria and Albert Museum

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 29 January 2021 Isabel Crespo Altheo Valentini

Education Community work plan 2021

Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Education Education

The Europeana Education Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's six specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2021.

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Title:

A classroom with children sitting at long tables and a teacher standing with a book in her hand

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 6 February 2020 Isabel Crespo

Historiana Teacher Training Guide

Education Teacher-training History Digital-culture Elearning Critical-thinking

EUROCLIO and Europeana have worked together to produce an updated training guide on how to use online tools promoting historical thinking.

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Title:

Merry Company Dining and Making Music

Creator:

Anthonie Palamedesz

Date:

1632

Institution:

Mauritshuis

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 29 January 2020 Isabel Crespo

ENA Education Community in practice: 10 ways to promote the use of digital cultural heritage

Network Education

Explore how ENA Education Community members have been fostering the use of digital culture in education at the national level, as well as 10 ways new members can contribute in the future!

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Title:

Elementary School

Creator:

Enckell, Magnus

Date:

1899

Copyright:

CC0

Publication Created: 5 September 2019 Isabel Crespo

Europeana Education. An initiative to integrate cultural heritage in education

Education Teachers Digital-cultural-heritage European-schoolnet

In collaboration with European Schoolnet, Europeana has produced a short publication for Ministries of Education and other stakeholders in the domain, which aim sis to introduce Europeana's activities and educational offer to promote the use of digital cultural heritage in learning environments. Download the publication and read the Executive summary.

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News Created: 4 September 2019 Isabel Crespo

Europeana MOOC now available in five languages

Education Teacher-training Digital-cultural-heritage European-schoolnet digital-competences 21st-century-skills

We are happy to announce that the #EuropeanaMOOC will run again in 2020 in the current languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese) and for the first time in Italian and French.

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Title:

Erithrean Sibyl from BL Royal 16 G V, f. 23

Creator:

Giovanni Boccaccio

Date:

c. 1440

Institution:

The British Library

Country:

UK

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 14 March 2019 Isabel Crespo

Discover free and innovative learning resources using digital culture in the new ‘Teaching with Europeana’ blog

Education Teachers Resource Learning-scenarios lesson-plan

Thanks to the contribution of 130 teachers from across Europe and beyond, educators will find new ready-to-use learning scenarios and stories on how to integrate digital culture in education every week on our new blog.

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News Created: 22 February 2019 Isabel Crespo

New Spanish and Portuguese versions of Europeana Education MOOC

Education Teacher-training Mooc Elearning

The 'Europeana in your classroom: building 21st-century competencies with digital cultural heritage' MOOC is back in an additional two national languages. If you want to learn how to make use of Europe’s cultural heritage for education in Spanish or Portuguese, join the course and spread the word in your network.

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Title:

Children working with Europeana resources in class.

Creator:

Ryszard Markowicz

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 19 December 2018 Isabel Crespo

Italian students use Europeana content to create multimedia products for #HackCultura2019

Education Teacher-training culturaitalia contest

#HackCultura2019 encourages Italian school students to take charge of their national cultural heritage - tangible, intangible and digital - through the development of digital products. It is an initiative of The Digital Cultural Heritage, Arts and Humanities School network (DiCultHer) in cooperation with the Italian ministries of education (Miur) and culture (MiBAC), INDIRE, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU), Scholas Ocurrentes, Rai Cultura and Europeana.

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News Created: 12 September 2018 Isabel Crespo

First Europeana Education MOOC: Giving teachers confidence to use digital cultural heritage

Education Teachers Mooc Digital-culture Elearning

The first Europeana Education MOOC, ‘Europeana in your classroom’, delivered by European Schoolnet (EUN), ran between 30 April – 15 June 2018. The course introduced participants to the Europeana platform to help them build learning scenarios using digital culture and fostering the 21st-century skills.

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