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An overview of the digital resources available from the University of Oxford to support new directions in teaching the First World War. All are available under open licenses to allow download, reuse, adaptation and redistribution in education worldwide. This presentation was given as a keynote at the Midlands History Forum, University of Birmingham on the 19th October 2013.
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Beyond the Trenches
Digital Resources from the
University of Oxford
Kate LindsayIT Services (Academic)University of Oxford@KTDigital | @WW1C | @WW1Lit
It all started with poetry…
I’m trying to stop them rehashing the same old A’ Level essays and I think drafts are a really good way to do that…
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen To what extent do drafts of this poem challenge its status as a 'work'?
Hope Wolf: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways/path/w83yc7
MSS Drafts, Published Texts, Correspondence, Photographs, Service Records, Diaries…
Images: Blunden Family Archive via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-poetry-digital-archive
They contributed to a community collection
6500
20,000
Cyprus
60,000items
48 roadshows & online4000 stories
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
Resource Library
• Mapping the Impact of the Great War
• 18Ib Artillery Shells: The Great War Recycled
• Shellshock on Film• Verdun 1916• Arras: The Forgotten
Battlefield• The Dying Kiss: Gender
and Intimacy in First World War Literature
• Conflict Culture
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
Community Blog
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-new-perspectives Audio & Video Talks
To re-present digital content around World War I in technologically innovative and inventive ways to showcase the full potential of using open material to seed academic debate and new directions in teaching.
Visualisations
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/category/battle-of-arras/
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/the-terrains-of-the-great-war/
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/wikipedia-and-the-fronts-of-ww1/
http://www.manypedia.com/
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/space-into-place/mapping-the-impact-of-the-great-war/
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-spanish-influenza-pandemic-and-its-relation-to-the-first-world-war/
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/tag/simulations/
Can technology move us ‘beyond the trenches’?
http://www.slideshare.net/WW1C
Kate LindsayManager for Education Enhancement, Academic IT Services
Director, First World War Digital CollectionsUniversity of Oxford
@KTDigital / @WW1C / @WW1LIt