The article analyzes the results of the educational project "Collection of poems about the Great Patriotic War", carried out by students of Pskov State University in 2010 -2021. Seventeen created collections allow you to see the diverse impact of modernization of the educational field in general and digitalization in particular, on the work of students on the project, as well as on the presentation of its results. First, over time, the editorial skills of students developed, since the problem of attribution of texts and the need to verify information obtained on network resources became more and more familiar to students. Secondly, the availability of digital technologies was reflected in the change in the appearance of collections: the share and variability of visualization elements increased significantly. Third, the emotional labeling of war fiction contributed to the development of emotional intelligence, and engagement in the work stimulated the desire to display its results in different venues. Fourth, the project (an independent selection of poems) gave students a new form of broadcasting historical memory. Fifth, over the years, the topics of the collections have been concretized and individualized, i.e. the creative component of the editorial board grew. During the work on the project, the student readers turned out to be not passive consumers of artistic information, but independent and full-fledged participants in the cultural and historical process, using for this the form of a book of poems that is relevant in modern literature, the editors of which they acted during the project.