Cultivate Creative Communicators With Big Huge Labs

Cultivate Creative Communicators With Big Huge Labs

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 ⬥ 10:30 – 11:30 AM ET US
Presented by Karen Streeter and Ruth Okoye

Session Description:

Looking for ways to nurture the “creative communicator” in your students? Learn to use Big Huge Labs with copyright-friendly photos for the win! Templates on this free website will allow your students to demonstrate what they have learned in a number of individually creative ways.

Purpose:

Every student is not an artist, but they can all be creative. Using templates can help us separate the two and scaffold students as they practice using their imaginations to solve problems. In this session, we will introduce participants to the Big Huge Labs website and share ways to use templates and images for scaffolding creative thought. Additionally, we’ll discuss ways to introduce copyright discussions in the classroom centered around remixing materials released with creative commons licensing.

Objectives:

• • Participants will deepen their own understanding of copyright and creative commons.
  • Participants will learn about various websites that house images with creative commons licenses that can be used for student projects and the appropriate way to have students attribute the images.
  • Participants will collaborate and discuss ideas for using the Big Huge Labs site across various content areas.

Download a PDF copy of the slides here.

Resource Materials:

In this Resource Materials section, you will find reference materials, tutorials, and how-to information that will help you review or extend your knowledge from the presentation.

Resources from TeachersFirst

• • TeachersFirst Review: Big Huge Labs (BHL)
  • Blog Post: Tech Tool of the Month: Big Huge Labs – Part 1
  • Blog Post: Tech Tool of the Month: Big Huge Labs – Part 2
  • Blog Post: Student-Centered Assessment Tools for Remote Learning (includes BHL reference)
  • Blog Post: Citing Media Sources for School Projects
  • OK2Ask (free, on-demand recording): Tech Integration Made Easy with Big Huge Labs
  • TeachersFirst’s Free Image Resources Collection
  • TeachersFirst’s Copyright and Fair Use Resource Collection
  • Big Huge Labs Project Ideas:
    • By Content Area
    • By Template
    • For ELL

Other Resources

Big Huge Labs

• • Big Huge Labs Website
  • Big Huge Labs and Education
  • Big Huge Labs on Twitter
  • Article: Multi-Media Text Sets
  • Project Zero’s Thinking Routine Toolbox
  • Using Big Huge Labs in the Classroom
  • Big Huge Labs (Ideas for the Classroom)
  • Big Huge Labs – Let your students create with pictures!

Students as Creators vs. Consumers and the Power of Images in the Classroom

• • The Creativity Issue: Why Just Consume When You Can Create?
  • ISTE Standards Spotlight
  • 5 Ways to empower students as content creators (Nearpod)
  • Picture This: The Power of Images in Student Creation
  • Seven Stages in Moving from Consuming to Creating (John Spencer)
  • Moving Students from Passive Consumers to Active Creators (AMLE)
  • Teach Kids to ‘Read’ the Images They See (MiddleWeb)
  • 5 Smart Ways To Use Digital Images In The Classroom (TeachThought)
  • 21 Ways to Use Photos in the Classroom (We Are Teachers)
  • Studies Confirm the Power of Visuals to Engage Your Audience in eLearning
  • The Power of Images
  • How Many Words Is a Picture Worth? Integrating Visual Literacy in Language Learning with Photographs

Copyright Resources

• • TeachersFirst’s Copyright and Fair Use Resource Collection
  • Copyright Resources for teaching and learning about copyright and fair use (by Sharon Hall via Padlet)
  • Teaching Students to Legally Use Images Online (Cult of Pedagogy)
  • Copyright and FairUse GuidelinesforTeachers
  • A Wonderful Copyright Flowchart for Your Class
  • Copyright – Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors
  • Copyright Term and the Public Domain
  • Students as Creators: Exploring Copyright – A ReadWriteThink Lesson Plan for grades 6 – 8
  • A Teacher’s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
  • Blog Post from TeachersFirst: Citing Media Sources for School Projects
  • How to get and use free images the RIGHT way in class

Finding Images

• • TeachersFirst’s Free Image Resources Collection
  • Creative Commons Images Search
  • Unsplash
  • Pixabay
  • Library of Congress – Free to Use and Reuse Sets
  • NASA Images and NASA Image and Video Library Search
  • National Park Service on flickr — or — National Parks Multimedia Search
  • Photos for Class
  • Pics4Learning
  • Smithsonian Open Access
  • Europeana Collections – Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage
  • Wikimedia Commons

Videos

ISTE’s Creative Communicator Standard

Copyright, Citing, and Creative Commons Licensing Explained

Big Huge Labs Tutorials

 

 

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