Web usability in practice: a case study from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive
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This presentation goes through the background to the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, then proceeds to outline how a variety of different user engagement strategies informed the development and the sustainability of the web site.
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Web usability in practice: a case study from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive
- 1. Web usability testing in practice: a case study from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive Kate Lindsay, Project Manager Oxford University
- 7. Defining User Groups Researchers HE Lecturers Teachers The General Public UG Students (Who have stuff from WW1!!!) Military Historians School Students Parents Family Historians
- 18. User Feedback I love the site and my students love using it - only today I had Year 13 group using it to research particular forms of writing for our own war wiki on our VLE. A couple of my students became totally addicted to deciphering Vera Brittain's handwriting and finding out what was next in her letter to Leighton and downloaded the letter to take home! Go and explore The First World War Digital Poetry Archive and The Great War Archive, both based at the University of Oxford. Go even if you don’t care about the First World War, just to revel in the high quality of the thought that has gone into creating such a wonderful resource. Go to have a look at the more than 6500 artefacts submitted by members of the public which are all now freely accessible and searchable. This is the thing that has made me happiest this week. Natalie Usher, Teacher Dan Todman, Historian The students I demonstrated the Archive to, in a lecture in February, were very interested in it. Most students seem to find online material far more appealing than printed material, but the content of web sites is often less than academic. It's very good to be able to refer to students to a web site of such quality from a sound academic source. Andrea Peterson, Lecturer
Editor's Notes
- Make additional primary source material available Collections of manuscripts from the great war are traditionally dispersed across many locations and institutions - poetry generally sent to various people in letters who have donated them to different archives or are held in private collections Web is being seen more and more as a communication medium first and a content delivery system second - harness the potential of web 2.0
- To be able to support and enhance university teaching with ICTs we must first find out how academics are currently teaching their subjects, and why they teach in certain ways. To be able to embed technology successfully within teaching and learning we must understand how teachers' experience and perceive teaching, learning, ICTs, and the mesh of factors that motivate them to adopt, or not to adopt technology. ( http://tiny.cc/3IJOa )
- Do academics want to use Web 2.0 technologies? It is pointless asking them, you have to show them the possibilities of academic application via prototyping. Our approach has shown that yes they do.
- Do academics want to use Web 2.0 technologies? It is pointless asking them, you have to show them the possibilities of academic application via prototyping. Our approach has shown that yes they do.