Author: athina
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Add digital heritage education to your classroom now! eTwinning
Heritage education enhances the teaching and learning of art, culture, geography and history in the classroom, besides the variety of digital cultural heritage tools offer educators and students brilliant tools to achieve and increase learning outcomes. The average history classroom differs significantly in practice, however, due to limitations on the teachers’ part. To their aid…
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AI and cultural heritage : EuropeanaTech x AI
‘EuropeanaTech x AI’ is a webinar series coming on 23 April that will explore both the benefits and challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications on cultural heritage. Each session will present a topic or project from the sector. Check out Introducing our ‘EuropeanaTech x AI’ webinar series Cultural Heritage is at the forefront…
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Imagined and Participatory Communities
Most heritage policies, officially adopted, encourage participatory heritage management by communities. You are likely to read the term in any heritage project nowadays, heck, even our page’s dedication is to it, yet the understanding and implications of the terms vary significantly. To understand the imagined community try this process. Think of your favourite/most notable heritage…
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Where will you celebrate International Museum Day? Check with ICOM’S interactive map
ICOM launched an on-line map to host events for May 18 the International Museum Day, where you can find events around you or post your events here! On this day museums get a chance to host a variety of events, exhibitions, concerts, guided tours, have extended opening hours and many more ways to connect with…
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UPDATE:SoPHIA virtual confrence you want to see!
SoPHIA, or Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment, hosts a Virtual Stakeholders Conference on 21 and 22 April to discuss the model developed as part of the project and the associated concepts. SoPHIA is a Horizon 2020 European initiative in charge of reviewing existing policy and creating a new model for heritage impact assessment…
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How-to: heritage video gaming
Cultural heritage games, one of our favourite topics, are ever-growing in multiple genres and purposes. The principles behind a good video game and accurate transmission of cultural heritage values are still in development in academic circles, which begs the question, how to create a good heritage video game? While researchers put forward effective ways to…
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Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in History and Geography
The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in History and Geography released recently ties two fundamental aspects of heritage education. The handbook is a collaborative effort of researchers from Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Portugal, Sweden and the United States addressing teachers challenges regarding these two topics. The handbook touches upon many subjects, including: Analysis of…
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Curated Reading List: March 2021
Your Curated Reading List for March is out along with spring and the easter bunny. The topics this month were very diverse, the discussion for the museum of care puts forth some interesting ideas, the Antikythera Mechanism is back in archaeological ‘fashion’ with a very new model and much more below. Pandemic anniversary: the things…
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Cultural heritage now on the green agenda: European Cultural Heritage Green Paper
European Cultural Heritage Green Paper proposes actions for cultural heritage integration into the European Green Deal framework. Who Europa Nostra ICOMOS Climate Heritage Network European Heritage Alliance European Investment Bank Institute, work together with one goal. What European Cultural Heritage Green Paper “Putting Europe’s shared heritage at the heart of the European Green Deal” was…
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Dark heritage, a reintroduction
Dark heritage, or ‘difficult’ heritage, is a category of cultural items associated with suffering, death and conflict. (**not the game** **certainly not the movie**) While dark heritage sites were always around, evidently, they have had the most stunted infrastructure. In the past twenty years, the terminology and practice have evolved considerably. Dark tourism, associated with…