Staff from the SCARLET team have been awarded the joint second prize for the Association for Learning Technologists “Learning Technology of the Year” team award. The award’s overall purpose is to celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. The SCARLET team, led by Mimas and involving academics from the … Read more
Blog post by Rose Lock “History is an art; history is a political act; history is a job”. Dr. Lucy Robinson, lecturer in contemporary British history and University of Sussex academic lead on Scarlet+ project. After a very productive workshop during which Laura Skilton (formerly Shaw), Matt Ramirez and Dr. Guyda Armstrong introduced us to the … Read more
The Crafts Study Centre at the University for the Creative Arts is a museum of 20th century and contemporary British crafts. Its collections include ceramics, wood and furniture, textiles (print and weave) and calligraphy and lettering. An understanding of these collections is supported by a large and growing archive which includes the papers of makers, … Read more
The SCARLET team have been busy presenting sessions on SCARLET at a number of conferences and events during the course of the project. A summary of these and links to presentations are below: October 2011 JISC Online Conference Activity Week 2011 In October 2011, SCARLET featured as part of the JISC Online Conference Activity Week. … Read more
The SCARLET (Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching) Project, which ends this month, was based on this premise; a teacher and group of students gather around a Dante manuscript or early printed edition in the Library. SCARLET demonstrated a huge impact thanks to an innovative and engaged team and an enthusiastic … Read more
As part of the on-going development of SCARLET, beyond the pilot course, “The Book and Its Body”, a group of Dr. Guyda Armstrong’s first-year students in ITAL10300, “Contemporary Italian Culture” were asked to participate in a focus group on 26 April 2012. As with the pilot course, Matt Ramirez demonstrated the app to the students … Read more
John Hodgson, Jo Lambert and Matt Ramirez recently hosted a workshop at the John Rylands Library to demonstrate the Scarlet augmented reality project to archivists and librarians from other institutions in the region (though Alison Cullingford will no doubt wish us to point out that Bradford is firmly in Yorkshire!). Our guests were treated to a sneak preview of … Read more
SCARLET has featured in a variety of journals, websites and newsletters in recent months. This post outlines a summary of key publications and provides access to each. CILIP Update Hodgson, J., Lambert, J., Ramirez, M. (2012), Augmented reality: a new vision for Special Collections. CILIP Update. February 2012, pp. 43-45. An OA copy of the article … Read more
Une démonstration du projet SCARLET est à présent disponible, afin de permettre aux utilisateurs de visualiser un échantillon du contenu du projet. Afin d’accéder au contenu, téléchargez l’image ci-dessous et imprimez-la en couleurs. Suivez ensuite les instructions de navigation afin de permettre au navigateur Junaio AR de démarrer la démonstration du contenu SCARLET. Il convient … Read more
Last week I attended the ELI conference in Austin, Texas to present on the progress to date of the SCARLET project and early evaluation findings. The conference was full of provocative ideas and innovative uses of mobile technology, most notably Chris Dede from Harvard who spoke about the EcoMOBILE (Ecosystems Mobile Outdoor Blended Immersive Learning … Read more