Tag Archives: JISC

Final blog post – Walking Through Time

Walking Through Time closing blog This is a final closing blog post that summarises the achievements of JISC follow-on funding for Rapid Innovation – Benefits Realisation Small Project Funding. The WTT project has taken many turns in its two year … Continue reading

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Times Higher

Small but perfectly formed piece in todays Times Higher Supplement I do wish they would cite the whole team, but all news is good for WTT

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New public site

We’re beginning to get some external interest so we thought we’d better make a more public site! here it is, small but beautifully formed: http://www.walkingthroughtime.co.uk/

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WalkThruT: A web app that provides historical maps to people with smart phones

Screenshots or diagram of prototype: •    http://walkingthroughtime.eca.ac.uk/?page_id=2 •    Final copy of user manual and description Link to working prototype: Please contact: c.speed@eca.ac.uk to get URL Link to end user documentation: ◦    We feel that the YouTube video was the most … Continue reading

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User Participation

User Participation Dave and Chris have previously blogged about the test-run with the Historical Society, which was largely unsuccessful due to a series of problems from the outset. Despite not being able to fully access the application (but having seen … Continue reading

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Value Add

Reflection of the value added nature of the project. 1.Web App WTT has been quite a journey, one of the most significant aspects of the project that has a value added quality is the webapp. I started with an aspiration … Continue reading

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Walking Through Time Project Summary – Development

In the spirit of Chris’s post on SWOT’ing.   I thought I would give a similar post from the development side. Strengths Web Application – After some initial wobbles we were set on doing a Web Application which paid of for … Continue reading

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Project Evaluation

Oops manage to miss most of the official Progress Report blog posts. In truth all of the content is located through our posts, but an extended reflection follows: So WTT is proving to be a rollercoaster, but one that has … Continue reading

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Google Maps 3 API – Fail for us

We tried – we failed…  For us to implement it, would require a good bit of re-write and we took the decision to not go with it this time.  It did make us think about the modular nature of the … Continue reading

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Web App fail?

The first round of testing that Karlyn performed was a resounding… well, fail to be honest.  I received a phone call bright and early one morning with the results of Karlyn’s testing. To be honest it just didn’t work for … Continue reading

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