A Round-Up of Some Useful Creative Commons Libraries

Looking for photos, videos or audio to use in your teaching sessions or presentations but unsure about copyright? You might be interested in the following Creative Commons resources.

What is Creative Commons?

Put simply, Creative Commons is a set of licenses that enable lawful collaboration to do things like copy, share and remix. Creative Commons is a way to give permission to everyone to freely reuse your creative works.

The following websites all host huge collections of creative commons artefacts:

• https://archive.org/ – The Internet Archive is one of the biggest archive of freely available artefacts and pulls together multiple archives and collections into one place. Here you can search photos, videos, books, music and more. Personal highlight: the collection of old Charlie Chaplin films
• https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en – Europeana work with “thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research.” Especially useful if you want high quality images of artwork, or old maps. There’s some great Eurovision-related content on there…
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/ – This is a project that was set up to digitise all of the images from books that have fallen out of copy write. Five millions images and counting!
• https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en – Mostly Dutch art and design
• https://thenounproject.com/ – Excellent website if you want simple graphics and icons
• http://freemusicarchive.org/ – Looking for Creative Commons music? This one’s for you! As they say themselves, “It’s not just free music; it’s good music.”
• http://www.openmusicarchive.org/ – This project was set-up by artists Ben White and Eileen Simpson (both of whom teach in the art school) to digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. Lots of early blues jazz and folk recordings.

It’s also worth noting that Google Images and Flickr both allow you to change your search settings to only display Creative Commons images. On Google Images this can be found under ‘tools>usage rights’. On Flickr there’s a dropdown menu under ‘Any license’.

“So, can I use any of these images/video clips/audio clips for any purpose?”

This depends on what creative commons license the author/creator has chosen to use. There are six different variants of the licence, which allow you do different things, such as edit and rework the work. More info here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/. You should remember to always attribute the work back to the original creator.

If you are looking for ways to incorporate some of these resources into your teaching, have a look at our pages on Lectures and Lecturing.

And, if all this talk of freely shared knowledge has peaked your interest, you’ll love our pages on Open Educational Resources!

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next #creativeHE meetup is on the 22nd of June > Join us!

A warm and open invitation to join the next #creativeHEmeetup on the 1st of June!

#creativeHE is an open collaborative community for creative and innovative practitioners which exists online at https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041 through which a series of events and courses have been offered by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with Creative Academic and facilitators from a range of institutions nationally and internationally.

We will continue connecting, collaborating, experimenting and learning together online this year and have just launched the Creativity in Practice project led by Prof. Norman Jackson.

This academic year, we have introduced meetups in the North-West in collaboration with the University of Salford and the University of Manchester.

Our next and last meetup during this academic year will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University on the 22nd of June, 12-2 pm in the All Saints Library, room 5.11 (report to reception). The focus of this meetup is the creative use of collage. Staff, students and the wider public, all very welcome.

For more information and to register, please access  http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/community/creativehe.php We are very much looking forward to seeing you there.

More info about the #creativeHE initiative:

It aims to support pedagogical rebels and free-thinking innovators in experimenting with, developing, sharing and getting support for novel learning and teaching ideas as well as initiate and disseminate research activity around these that have the power to transform the student and staff experience within and beyond institutional boundaries.

This community is open to anyone who would like to join, academic staff, students and the wider public. All who have an interest in creative and innovative approaches to teaching and helping others learn.

We meet physically on a monthly basis, each time at a different institution. During our meetups, we will have the opportunity to get to know each other, share and grow new ideas, take risks and support each other in our creative adventures, experiment and play, as well as test and develop pedagogical ideas and identify ways to take them forward.

We will continue using the #creativeHE online community space which now supports and connects a global community of over 600 people. Furthermore, this space will offer additional opportunities for professional development through online discussions, events and courses that are organised through #creativeHE, the Creative Academic and the wider academic community. The openly licensed #101creativeideas project will help us collect and share our ideas and the pedagogic innovators project (#pin) to engage in related research activities.

We suggest that each meetup features time for socialising. As the meetups will all be free and open, we encourage each participant to bring a gift of food and/or non-alcoholic drinks to share with other participants. Homemade and more healthy contributions are very welcome as are foods from different cultures. In this simple way we aim to encourage sharing of the many cultures that make up our society.

The institutional contact will coordinate the monthly gathering and a booking system will be in place through CELT at Manchester Metropolitan University. If you would like to become a #creativeHE champion in your institution, please get in touch with us.

We are really looking forward to seeing you again online and locally,

Chrissi on behalf of the #creativeHE team

GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE COLLABORATE TO LEARN TOGETHER

 

Higher Education in Denmark – Thursday 17th May, 10-11 am – Room 3.28 The Business School

Speaker:  Kim Møller

Speaker affiliation:  University of Aalborg, Denmark

Higher Education in Denmark is significantly different from that in the UK.  It adopts a different teaching model, relying on problem-based learning rather than the traditional lecture/tutorial approach in the UK.  Students work in small groups in real businesses to solve real problems. In this way, business and academia work closely together to ensure that all learning is grounded in practice and that all learning is applicable to industry once students graduate.  The way in which students are assessed is also different to UK practice.  Student work is assessed in a three-hour verbal examination rather than the UK approach of written assignments.  

Aalborg University is at the forefront of these approaches and, indeed, the system is often known as the ‘Aalborg Model’. Kim Møller is an Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, and is coming to MMU to explain the principles behind the method, to share best practice, and to offer practical insights into how we might be able to implement some of the innovative techniques in our own programmes. 

If you would like to attend.  Please email Mark Crowder on  m.crowder@mmu.ac.uk or contact him by phone on X 3744

 

NUS Responsible Futures meeting

Dear Colleagues,

 

We have the pleasure to invite you to Manchester Met’s National Union of Students (NUS) Responsible Futures (RF) meeting on the 4^th of May at 2 pm in BS 311, hosted by the Sustainable and Ethical Enterprise Group (SEEG).

The NUS Responsible Futures project aims to place social responsibility and environmental sustainability at the heart of education across UK universities and colleges. The NUS Responsible Futures accreditation aligns with other accreditations and initiatives including People and Planet University League, QAA subject benchmarks, PRME, EQUIS, AACSB, Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES).

Manchester Met was one of 15 universities and colleges to pilot the RF project, helping to develop the standard. We achieved our institutional accreditation in 2015 – the feedback report can be found here:

https://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/esd/MMU%20Responsible%20Futures%20Feedback%20Report%20.pdf

A reaccreditation audit will be taking place on May 16^th and 17^th, where a selection of criteria must be met through a partnership between our institution and Students’ Union.

There are great examples of teaching, engagement and research activities across Manchester Met that are relevant for the reaccreditation. However, keeping up to date with all your great work is not always easy. This is why we have the pleasure to invite you to an hour meeting in which we will provide an overview of NUS Responsible Futures project/accreditation, followed by a discussion from which we will gather information to showcase to the student auditors and the NUS.

It is also a great pleasure to announce that the three Responsible Futures high-level champions are:

Amie Atkinson, Cheshire Vice President (The Union)

Dr. Liz Price, Head of School of Science and the Environment (Manchester Met)

Prof. Sally Randles, Chair of Sustainability and Innovation (Manchester Met)

We look forward to seeing you!

 

Please email Chloe Andrews C.Andrews@mmu.ac.uk to confirm your attendance.

Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal – new issue

Volume 2, issue 1 of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal,the journal of the RAISE network,  has just been published. The longer articles focus on promoting effective relationships between staff and students, whilst a series of case studies looks at the practical implications of various techniques for enhancing student engagement. We also have an opinion piece critiquing the appropriation of the term ‘student engagement’ and an article from a student reflecting on the value of her engagement

SEHEJ is an Open Access journal edited in CELT and is part of our contribution to the international community of scholars of teaching and learning. We see it as an open, inclusive, community which provides opportunities to novice authors and reviewers, but a lot of generous contributions of time are needed to make this work. We welcome both experienced and new reviewers and authors, so please get in touch if you are able to participate in the journal activities. If you know of any students who would like to write for the journal, we do offer a developmental route to publication, so please encourage them to consider this.

Full list of articles in Volume 2, issue 1:

Angera, J., et al. (2018). “Launching an Interdisciplinary Network for Understanding Student Engagement (INFUSE).” 2018 2(1): 93-98. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Deschaine

Bramley, G. (2018). “How to help engage students in flipped learning: a flipping eventful journey.” 2018 2(1): 78-85. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Bramley

Bryson, C., et al. (2018). “Proceedings of the RAISE International Colloquium on Partnership.” 2018 2(1): 99-136. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Bryson

Davies, M. K. (2018). “‘The SLL Resilience Programme: The Route to Success’: Implementing Wellbeing Skills at the University of Reading.” 2018 2(1): 55-60. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Davies

Dyer, J., et al. (2018). “Field trips, friendships and societies: Exploring student engagement in the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.” 2018 2(1): 30-54. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Dyer

Fotinatos, N. and Sabo, E. (2018). “Impact of centrally coordinated higher education pre-commencement of teaching student support initiative (FedReady) on student engagement: A regional university case study.” 2018 2(1): 86-92. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Fotinatos

Lowe, T. (2018). “Data Analytics – A critique of the appropriatisation of a new measure of ‘Student Engagement’.” 2018 2(1): 2-6. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Lowe/

Marie, J. and Azuma, F. (2018). “Partnership support for departments with low student satisfaction.” 2018 2(1): 71-77. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Marie

Mercer-Mapstone, L. D., et al. (2017). “Breaking Tradition Through Partnership: Navigating Identities and Dissonance in Student-Staff Partnerships.” 2017 2(1): 12-30. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Mercer-Mapstone

Simpson, C. and Clark, T. (2018). “Reflections on the development of a model of partnership designed to enhance the ‘digital curriculum’ of Sociological Studies programmes.” 2018 2(1): 61-70. https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Clark/641

Sum, K. (2018). “Growing from a Seed” 2018 2(1): 7-11 https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/raise/article/view/Sum/637

Using storytelling in education for sustainable development (ESD)

CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS

We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Routledge book on using storytelling in education for sustainable development (ESD). We anticipate that potential contributors will be colleagues with an interest/expertise in one or more of the following areas: Storytelling, ESD in Higher Education, Innovative Pedagogies. Book editors will be Heather Luna and Dr Petra Molthan-Hill  (both Nottingham Trent University), Dr Denise Baden (University of Southampton) and Professor Tony Wall (University of Chester). To facilitate the writing process, we are offering an initial webinar.

 

WHAT: Storytelling & Sustainability Webinar

WHEN: Wednesday 25th April 3-5pm BST (2-4pm UTC)

WHERE: on Zoom

HOW: You will receive a link prior to the webinar that you click to join. You will need a webcam and microphone (embedded ones are fine). If you are unfamiliar with Zoom, Heather will arrange a practice run to ensure the technology goes smoothly for all.

 

This webinar will consist of:

* An overview of what we would expect from a submitted chapter, with Q&A

* A small group activity with others in your discipline area

* A round of sharing ideas

* A small interdisciplinary group activity

* Time outside the webinar to develop ideas

* Another round with your interdisciplinary group to report back

* A round-up of ideas and further Q&A

 

To book onto the webinar, please email heather.luna@ntu.ac.uk. If you are not available for this webinar but would like to contribute to the book and/or participate in a future webinar, please contact Heather.

 

SUSTAINABLE STORY WRITING COMPETITION

On a related note, please find attached details of a writing competition for short stories (<3500 words) set within a sustainable society. Deadline for submissions is 19^th April 2018. Perfect to whet your appetite for the book! For more information visit: http://www.greenstories.org.uk

next #creativeHE meetup is on the 1st of May! Join us at Salford Uni cc @neilwithnell

A warm and open invitation to join the next #creativeHEmeetup on the 1st of May!

#creativeHE is an open collaborative community for creative and innovative practitioners which exists online at https://plus.google.com/communities/110898703741307769041 through which a series of events and courses have been offered by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University in partnership with Creative Academic and facilitators from a range of institutions nationally and internationally.

We will continue connecting, collaborating, experimenting and learning together online this year and have just launched the Creativity in Practice project led by Prof. Norman Jackson.

This academic year, we have introduced meetups in the North-West in collaboration with the University of Salford and the University of Manchester.

Our next meetup will take place at the University of Salford on the 1st of May, 12-2pm in the Mary Seacole Building Room 136 organised by Neil Withnell and colleagues. The focus of this meetup is the creative use for teaching of stuff we would normally throw away, in other words rubbish. Please bring some samples/examples with you together with your ideas to share and discuss. Staff, students and the wider public, all very welcome.

For more information and to register, please access  http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/community/creativehe.php We are very much looking forward to seeing you there.

More info about the #creativeHE initiative:

It aims to support pedagogical rebels and free-thinking innovators in experimenting with, developing, sharing and getting support for novel learning and teaching ideas as well as initiate and disseminate research activity around these that have the power to transform the student and staff experience within and beyond institutional boundaries.

This community is open to anyone who would like to join, academic staff, students and the wider public. All who have an interest in creative and innovative approaches to teaching and helping others learn.

We meet physically on a monthly basis, each time at a different institution. During our meetups, we will have the opportunity to get to know each other, share and grow new ideas, take risks and support each other in our creative adventures, experiment and play, as well as test and develop pedagogical ideas and identify ways to take them forward.

We will continue using the #creativeHE online community space which now supports and connects a global community of over 600 people. Furthermore, this space will offer additional opportunities for professional development through online discussions, events and courses that are organised through #creativeHE, the Creative Academic and the wider academic community. The openly licensed #101creativeideas project will help us collect and share our ideas and the pedagogic innovators project (#pin) to engage in related research activities.

We suggest that each meetup features time for socialising. As the meetups will all be free and open, we encourage each participant to bring a gift of food and/or non-alcoholic drinks to share with other participants. Homemade and more healthy contributions are very welcome as are foods from different cultures. In this simple way we aim to encourage sharing of the many cultures that make up our society.

The institutional contact will coordinate the monthly gathering and a booking system will be in place through CELT at Manchester Metropolitan University. If you would like to become a #creativeHE champion in your institution, please get in touch with us.

We are really looking forward to seeing you again online and locally,

Chrissi on behalf of the #creativeHE team

GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE COLLABORATE TO LEARN TOGETHER

For this meetup we met at the University of Salford and decided to look critically and creatively at things we throw away but could indeed become valuable for learning and teaching.  Yes, rubbish… it was fascinating to see what kind of rubbish colleagues brought with them and the ideas that were generated through these collectively. We spent most of our time exploring the possibilities that used train tickets brought for our teaching in a range of disciplines and professional areas and we said that it might be useful recording these and capturing them in a collaborative article. I hope we will be able to do this. Really looking forward to our last #creativeHE meetup this year in June which will take place at Manchester Met.

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