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Virtual trenches immerse students in First World War poetry

2nd November, 2009 posted by: Bob Harrison

With Armistice Day fast approaching a JISC project team has taken an unusual approach to ensuring that people continue to learn about the First World War.

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University have collaborated on an exciting new project in the 3D virtual world Second Life to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. The team believes this is the first time anything of its type has been done on Second Life.

This project, which is funded by JISC, has arranged a range of digitised archival materials like poetry manuscripts, letters and diaries from the major poets of the First World War including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Vera Brittain, along with contextual primary source materials. These materials have been supplemented with new interpretative content and a spectrum of interactive tools and tutorials, streaming video and audio effects.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/11/ww1simulation.aspx

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Ian Hallworth
November 18th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

We recently proposed an Augmented Reality game to Futurlalab which may be of interest to readers – read more at http://tinyurl.com/yfqtlnt

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