8.0109 Instructional Teaching Materials from Oxford (1/116)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 24 Jul 1994 20:24:19 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0109. Sunday, 24 Jul 1994.

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 18:29:55 +0100
From: Stuart Lee <stuart@vax.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Oxford ITTI Products

I thought this may be of interest to humanities academics. As the project is
funded by the UK government, and therefore the programs are distributed at
minimum costs, I hope this does not contravene the strict (and justifiably so)
rules of net-advertising.

Please cross-post accordingly,

Stuart Lee
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Dr Stuart Lee
Research Officer
CTI Centre for Textual Studies
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Tel:0865-273221/283282
Fax:0865-273221
E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk

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Oxford ITTI Products

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The Poetry Shell

Do you teach foreign language poetry? Are you interested in computer-based
learning packages but can't find one suitable for your subject? Would you
develop such materials if the amount of time to do so and the necessary
computing expertise were minimized?

The Poetry Shell is a tool for producing hypermedia poetry editions.

It has been designed to enable the production of learning resources without the
need for knowledge of specialized hypermedia authoring tools. Use the Poetry
Shell to prepare materials for the classroom, or to allow students to create
poetry editions individually or in groups.

At the centre of each package produced with the Poetry Shell lies a poem with
hypermedia links to a glossary or dictionary, associated text documents, and
images ('The Dream of the Rood', see below, is an example of a hypermedia
edition created using the Poetry Shell). Links from every word in the poem can
be made automatically to the glossary and to grammatical help. Automatic
hypertext links can also be made from any line in the poem to additional notes.

To create a new edition with the Shell, the poem and associated text documents
can be prepared in any word processor but must be stored as ASCII files. Images
must be stored in Windows Bitmap format. A configuration screen in the Shell
allows the author to incorporate the poem and associated text documents and
images with relative ease. The glossary configuration screen provides various
tools for the production of a new glossary.

Machine Requirements: IBM PC-compatible computer with a 386SX or faster
processor; 4MB RAM minimum A hard disk or network connection; VGA colour
monitor capable of 256 colours at 640 by 480 resolution; DOS 5.0 or later is
recommended; Windows 3.1.

The Poetry Shell requires about 2MB hard disk space in addition to that needed
for your poetry data. It is delivered on two 1.4MB 3.5" floppy disks.

Produced by: The Hypermedia in Language and Literature Subjects project, Centre
for Humanities Computing, Oxford University.

Funded by: The Information Technology Training Initiative of the Higher
Education Funding Councils.

Price: #15.00 (pounds sterling). This product may be freely copied within an
institution.

Distributed by: ITTI Products, c/o Jean Burgan, CVCP/USDU, Level 6, University
House, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom; Tel: 0742 725248; Email:
j.burgan@pa.shef.ac.uk

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The Dream of the Rood

This hypermedia edition of the well known Old English poem 'The Dream of the
Rood' contains a full glossary and notes, an Old English grammar, translations,
analogue material, background introductory essays, colour photographic images,
and a full bibliography. This is an example of a hypermedia edition created
using the Poetry Shell (see above).

The poem is central to the package. Select any word in the poem and click on
the Glossary button to retrieve glossary information for that word. A further
click will reveal grammatical information, or all occurrences of the word and
its variant forms throughout the poem, or will link to further notes. Click on
the Analogue button to display a list of documents; on the Topics button to
display a list of background essays; on the Images button to display the list
of image titles.

Although this hypermedia edition provides a comprehensive learning resource,
the contents of the package may be added to, modified, or deleted. Most of the
textual material can be altered using a word-processor; the package can be
reconfigured to include additional text documents and images; glossary
meanings, part of speech, parse, and grammar information can be modified.

Machine Requirements: IBM PC-compatible computer with a 386SX or faster
processor; 4MB RAM minimum; hard disk or network connection; VGA monitor
capable of 256 colours at 640x480 resolution; DOS 5.0 or later is recommended;
Windows 3.1; 'The Dream of the Rood' requires 12MB hard disk space; delivered
on five 1.4MB 3.5" floppy disks.

Produced by: The Hypermedia in Language and Literature Subjects, Centre for
Humanities Computing, Oxford University.

Funded by: The Information Technology Training Initiative of the Higher
Education Funding Councils.

Price (pounds sterling): #25.00 per single-user pack; #95.00 for ten-user pack.
Due to copyright restrictions this product is not available for free copying.

Distributed by: ITTI Products, c/o Jean Burgan, CVCP/USDU, Level 6, University
House, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK; Tel: 0742-725248; E-mail:
j.burgan@pa.shef.ac.uk.