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Re-imagining World War I

Re-imagining World War I. Opening Content, Opening Minds. Kate Lindsay Manager for Engagement, Academic IT Services Director, World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings University of Oxford @ KTDigital / @WW1C. It all started with poetry….

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Re-imagining World War I

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  1. Re-imagining World War I Opening Content, Opening Minds Kate Lindsay Manager for Engagement, Academic IT Services Director, World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings University of Oxford @KTDigital / @WW1C

  2. It all started with poetry…. Images: British Library via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive

  3. …and continued www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

  4. The Great War Archive They contributed to a community collection The Great War Archive The Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa

  5. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

  6. Germany (2011)

  7. Germany (2011) Luxembourg (2012) Ireland (2012) UK Preston (2012) Slovenia (2012) Denmark (2012)

  8. Germany (2011) Luxembourg (2012) Ireland (2012) UK Preston (2012) Slovenia (2012) Denmark (2012) UK Banbury (3 Nov 2012) Cyprus (Nov 2012) Belgium (Dec 2012) Italy (Mar 2013) France? Poland? Malta? Austria? Switzerland? Romania? Portugal? Spain? Norway? … ?

  9. Body and Mind Consent, Dissent and Revolution Material Culture Religion and Spirituality Strange meetings From Space to Place Machine Aftermath The Memory of War

  10. Resource Library • Links to existing high quality OER on the World Wide Web • Selected by a team of student ambassadors and academics • Global OER Widgets • Surface ‘Popular’ resources • Links to the ‘big’ WW1 OER collections Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

  11. Collaborative Blog • Experts from across a range of disciplines. • New ideas, unrefined thoughts, reviews, republish previous work. • Surface existing open materials. • No style guide and requires no specific referencing format. • Dissemination via social media. Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

  12. Blogging as open publishing • Community open to open publishing and open licenses. • Opportunity to enhance reputation, for public engagement and get feedback.. • Roles shift in a new writing space • Driver for open literacy Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

  13. @Arras95: Contribute, Collaborate, Commemorate • Twitter campaign between 9th April and 16th May 2012. • Surface a key, but lesser taught, turning point of the War. • Increase the visibility of existing open content around this one focal point • Crowdsource an archive of knowledge about the event. • @Arras95: Contribute, Collaborate, Commemorate • 2545 Tweets • 9 new articles • 132 OERs

  14. Geographic annotation

  15. ABM - Spanish Flu Pandemic • Explore the Spanish Influenza pandemic and its relation to WW1. • Investigate actions and interactions of autonomous agents to see their effect on the pandemic as a whole. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBl_z86yXQ4&feature=youtu.be Image: Otis Historical Archive, CC BY-NC-SA..

  16. Virtual World Simulations

  17. Images: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

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