{"id":1720,"date":"2019-12-10T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2019-12-05T09:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:26:51","slug":"oxfordstories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/oxfordstories\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 10. Oxford Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1645\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1645\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1645\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/files\/2019\/11\/joanna-kosinska-0CQfTLOVTPU-unsplash-1024x274.jpg\" alt=\"Garland with bulbs, lights and bells\" width=\"640\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/files\/2019\/11\/joanna-kosinska-0CQfTLOVTPU-unsplash-1024x274.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/files\/2019\/11\/joanna-kosinska-0CQfTLOVTPU-unsplash-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/files\/2019\/11\/joanna-kosinska-0CQfTLOVTPU-unsplash-768x206.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IT Innovation Challenges advent calendar 2019<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What do medieval churches, celebrating diversity, and new library readers have in common? They are all the focus in one of the free tours created with the <em>Oxford Stories<\/em>\u00a0application.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Discover some of the alternative stories connected to Oxford&#8217;s buildings, streets and collections as told by researchers, community members, and students.\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/\">https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Oxford Stories<\/em>\u00a0is a collection of tours, the site where the tours can be found, and the tool used to build them. The tool was initially created by the Software Solutions team at IT Services as part of the <em>Diversifying the University Voice<\/em>\u00a0project (supported by IT Innovation Challenges). It has since been developed further and can now be used to easily create tours that feature text, images, audio and video. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford Stories<\/a> on a mobile device and take a guided tour along the trail. You can also explore the tours from the comfort of your\u00a0chair, using the maps, text and media resources to show you new and exciting aspects of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1723 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/files\/2019\/12\/OxfordStories-181x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/files\/2019\/12\/OxfordStories-181x300.png 181w, https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/files\/2019\/12\/OxfordStories.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>A list of all current tours can be found on the <em>Oxford Stories<\/em> site <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/<\/a>. The list will grow as more tours are added but currently include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/medieval-churches-oxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medieval Churches of Oxford<\/a>: an interactive tour\u00a0of medieval churches and spaces<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/taylor-institution-library-tour-new-readers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Institution Library<\/a>: a tour for new readers and anyone who wishes to see the library from the inside<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/reformation-walking-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reformation Walking Tour<\/a>: walk in the steps of graduates and faculty who became martyrs and leaders<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/pitt-rivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pitt Rivers Museum<\/a>: discover new stories about museum artefacts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/out-in-oxford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Out in Oxford<\/a>: celebrate diversity through alternative insights into our shared, queer heritage<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk\/torch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torch<\/a>: a number of Oxford Alternative Stories with themes such as: Black History, Colonialism, Religion, Refugee, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:\u00a0 Do you have an idea for a tour? Why not join the Summer of Innovation challenge which is funding a number of students to work on innovative digital projects. Call for ideas opens in January (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/summer-of-innovation-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/summer-of-innovation-2020\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do medieval churches, celebrating diversity, and new library readers have in common? They are all the focus in one of the free tours created with the Oxford Stories\u00a0application. Discover some of the alternative stories connected to Oxford&#8217;s buildings, streets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/oxfordstories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/innovation-challenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}