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Browsing Archive: June, 2011

BBC: Domesday Reloaded

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, June 26, 2011, In : Data 
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Originally released on Laserdisc, the BBC project to record daily lives , back in 1986, is now available on the web.

Find out how your area has changed.

Search by entering...

  • a place name; or
  • a postcode.
  • click a square covering that location on a map.

Users can then view photographs and read written accounts from that time.

Perhaps history/local history/community/etc. practitioners and their learners can update existing entries (sadly the blank areas can't be updated).

Visit htt...


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Historypin

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, June 16, 2011, In : Data 
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Historypin..

  • is a service that Local History Practitioners will find invaluable;
  • allows anyone with a Google account to place images within the setting of current Google Maps Streetview imagery;
  • allows visitors to explore the imagery added by others.
    • To explore the imagery on Historypin...
      • zoom in on a location; and
      • select a range of dates on the Historypin timeline.

Learn more about Historypin in the video below...

Visit http://www.historypin.com/ to ...


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New National Heritage List

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, June 9, 2011, In : Data 
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The National Heritage List for England is a searchable database of all nationally designated heritage assets including...

  • Listed Buildings;
  • Scheduled Monuments;
  • Registered Parks and Gardens;
  • Registered Battlefields; and
  • Protected Wreck Sites

In the past practitioners and/or learners had to search various different sources and websites to access the records and datasets relating to the above, now they can find them all in one place - on the new National Heritage List for England....


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John Dalziel
Liverpool

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.

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