JISC

The project report (below) is the final publication of the 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature' Project, part of JISC's Technology Applications Programme. The project was based at the Humanities Computing Unit, part of Oxford University Computing Services.

The project, in keeping, with the motivation behind JTAP, set out to illustrate how conventional technology could be applied to teaching literature. In this sense then it did not set out to develop any new application, but instead used existing software, standards, and so on. Furthermore, from the outset it was agreed that the most effective way of getting the message across to humanities academics was to provide real-life usable examples which they could adapt for their own teaching or could use as role models. The project, therefore, set out to deliver the following products:

• Four on-line (web-based) tutorials to teach literature (the focus being the poetry of the First World War)
• A multimedia digital archive available via the Web (again focusing on WW1 but expanding to include historical information) complete with a 'path creation scheme'
  

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