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Artefacts from Leicester’s Industrial Past, Digitized and Online
One major aspect of the Manufacturing Pasts project is to digitise materials pertaining to Leicester’s industrial past, especially (but not only) the post-World-War-II period. Simon Gunn and Rebecca...
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How accessible are my OERs?
Last week, I visited the AcessAbility Centre at University of Leicester. It had been suggested to me that it might be good if I found out more about accessibility requirements for learning materials,...
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Manufacturing Pasts publishes its first set of open learning materials
Our Manufacturing Pasts project has published its first set of open learning materials on its website, http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts Just click on the tab at the left entitled Open Learning...
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Building Shared Heritages and new collections
Last weekend Terese Bird and I presented a workshop at a conference organised by Building Shared Heritages: Cultural Diversity in Leicester, which is a co-sponsored project at the University of...
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Collections update – new items added
I am pleased to say that we have made further progress on both our resource collections. As I mentioned in my last blog, we decided to split the items we were producing into two collections to enable...
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Research methods in historical studies – via Vimeo
I’ve been building open-access learning materials (open educational resources or OERs) for the Manufacturing Pasts project for several months now. Our plan all along has been to create image-led...
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Capturing history before it goes
Several weeks ago, I began to list and gather photos of the old factories and businesses in Leicester’s Frog Island and other areas nearby. One of the oldest and most beautiful of the old factories is...
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Manufacturing Pasts’ contribution to historical research
I attended a JISC Evaluation Workshop on 25 July, which JISC organised to help participants in the digitisation programme (of which Manufacturing Pasts is a part) to wisely evaluate the products and...
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A virtual tour to compare past and present
At the University of Leicester Centre for Urban History, Colin Hyde has been documenting Leicester’s past and present for many years. Among the photographs Colin has contributed to the Manufacturing...
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The factory, the community, and de-industrialization
The project has moved on another stage in the past week, with additional learning resources and digitised primary resources being made available for our second two themes: De-industrialization The...
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Meetings and communications
We had a successful 3rd Steering Group meeting last week. As Terese was out presenting on our project at the ALT-C conference in Manchester I had the pleasure of demonstrating some of our newer...
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Don’t say OER
On 11th September 2012, I presented Manufacturing pasts: Opening Britain’s Industrial Past to New Learners and New Technologies’ at the Association for Learning Technology annual conference in...
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Students’ opinions of Manufacturing Pasts materials – Part I
At the beginning of the summer just gone, I was able to run three focus groups with 2nd and 3rd year University of Leicester undergraduate history students, to get their opinions of the Manufacturing...
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Buildings at risk – assessing and preserving Leicester’s heritage
I was delighted to see the BBC report this morning on the launch by English Heritage of the Heritage at Risk Register 2012. As Terese and I have both commented in previous blogs, many of the buildings...
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Communications & Dissemination: JISC workshop 5th October 2012
The main focus of this one day event was advising us on how to get our message to the right people, cutting through the myriad of information they receive on a daily basis. Rosemary Stamp (Stamp...
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Manufacturing Pasts in Singapore
Somewhat out of the blue, I was invited to present a workshop on creating learning materials for mobile devices, at the MobiLearnAsia Conference in Singapore, 24-26 October 2012. I had never been in...
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Sustainability
With the programme meeting on sustainability on 8-9 November approaching, we have been asked to share some thoughts on sustainability of our projects. So, first of all; what’s the point of our project?...
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Digital archives v physical – can they co-exist?
As part of our dissemination and evaluation plan, the project last week became the topic of a New History Lab seminar, held here at the University of Leicester’s Centre for Urban History. Despite it...
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Taking Manufacturing Pasts on the road
On 3rd November, 2012, Tania Rowlett and I took some tablet computers and some other kit to the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. For a couple of hours that morning, we had...
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The Ongoing Tale of Donisthorpe Mill, Leicester
Back in August, I wrote a blog post about one thing I had learnt from the Manufacturing Pasts project so far: that if we don’t capture history now, we will lose it. One thing I was referring to was the...
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