Prompted by today's announcement of some educational materials on the blog, and also John Sayer's adaptation of the project for use with his students I thought I'd shove it up anyway in a rough and ready form...
A few months ago, we heard at a meeting in Solly Street about plans to bring the BBC Domesday Project into the 21st Century by revisiting the project 25 years on from its 1986 launch....
I remember the old discs. We had a player and discs in our geography department and as the resident technology person I made the most use of it... remember the disc player, the user manuals and the tracker ball... In fact I chucked the player into a skip personally some years ago. I remember being videoed by someone at some point talking about how to use the discs in the classroom.
Here's a video that was played at the launch of the RELOADED project, courtesy of Rory Cellan Jones.
A few weeks ago now, there was the relaunch of the BBC's 1986 DOMESDAY PROJECT, 25 years on from the original...
There was a lot of information on the discs, although it was of variable quality, and you can now experience that variable quality for yourself !
The DOMESDAY RELOADED project has attracted a lot of attention from the press, but also from teachers interested in the national collection of images and impressions of PLACES. Thousands of them.....
What change has there been in particular places over that time ?
What are people's memories of the project ?
(A related site of interest is DOMESDAY MAP which takes you back to the original inspiration for the project.)
Some blog posts with recollections from Theo and Danny here:
http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2011/05/bbc-domesday-reloaded/
http://theok.typepad.com/digital_signposts/2011/05/domesday-reloaded-part-2.html
I went out, and saw what changes there had been in my local area and took some pictures to update the ones on the website. I stood in the same place as the original photos and took some images to compare - was interested that the images on the disc were incorrectly labelled with the wrong names...
I'll continue to update this as more geographical support material emerges.
If you're doing something related to the Domesday project get in touch
Finally, I'm in possession of a set of the two discs: all reasonable offers considered....
I went out, and saw what changes there had been in my local area and took some pictures to update the ones on the website. I stood in the same place as the original photos and took some images to compare - was interested that the images on the disc were incorrectly labelled with the wrong names...
I'll continue to update this as more geographical support material emerges.
If you're doing something related to the Domesday project get in touch
Finally, I'm in possession of a set of the two discs: all reasonable offers considered....
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