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The Digital Learning Agency
Pegholme Mill
Wharfebank Business Centre
Ilkley Road, Otley
LS21 3JP
We’re experts in using digital channels to facilitate learning by enthralling, enlightening and engaging. Because we have vast experience working with the education sector, we understand key stages, the curriculum, and what makes learning fun and effective in the digital arena.
We fended offstrong competition from three other cultural institutions across the country,including the Natural History Museum and English Heritage, with our Timeline:Sources from History project.
The www.bl.uk/timeline venture saw us work closelywith the British Library to develop an innovative online timeline, whichincorporates images, audio, video and transcripts into 800 years of history,giving a whole new online audience access to information. In particular, weused our expertise to utilise a full content management system, meaning the newonline facility allows new timeline projects to be added regularly, making thesystem a useful teaching resource.
We aredelighted that our project for the British Library won the Innovation categoryand that we received glowing praise from the judging panel! It was achallenging venture which took over six months to build, refine and test, butthe team at the British Library were a pleasure to work with as they pouredtons of passion and experience into the task at hand.
Events in timelines can be compared against one another to give great insight and answer questions such as ‘who was in government when Queen Victoria came to the throne?’
Although the application is designed to be used by anyone, it will have particular relevance in education. The concept and user interface is designed to help chronological understanding. So users will be able to build their own interactive timeline, before saving and printing out for class lessons or homework.
The application was built using Adobe Flash, a well recognised technology; used widely for delivering highly engaging content such as this. Each event has a date, introduction, large image that can be explored in detail, along with a transcript. Many events also feature audio and video content.
We’re particularly pleased with the reaction from early users, who are enjoying the simple and natural interface which makes it so easy to navigate.
We believe the key to engaging users and helping them learn online is to explore exciting and innovative ways to share content. We’re delighted the British Library chose the Digital Learning Agency as a partner in this groundbreaking application.