This week has been my substantial back-to-work for 2025 and I’m aware that I’ve not said much about what “work” is for me these days. For the last 16 months I’ve been sucessfully running my own consultancy company, mainly working with Canadian education institutions on … Continue reading Back to work for 2025
Read moreI gifted the second hat of winter last night whilst out for birthday dinner with friends. Paul has dropped enormous hints for the last few years about wanting one of my woolly bunnets and this year his wishes have been granted. With interest. Hat number … Continue reading Yarn dominance
Read moreI spent this morning in the pottery studio (shout out to Linlithgow Pottery and the amazing Hepzibah Kilbride) trimming down and playing about with a rather dodgy bowl I threw about a week ago. I made the base too thin and sliced through it when … Continue reading Pottering about
Read moreIt’s coming that time of the year when I feel wistful and whimsical, and inevitably revisit the blog post I failed to finish *last year* reflecting on the year that was. Usually I write about half of a new one summaring this year, because It … Continue reading Blogging or dieing
Read moreI’ve been thinking a lot about slowness and refusal; in technology, in practice, in life more generally. Slowness and refusal was the focus of an Edinburgh Futures Institute Contested Computing event earlier this month on Imagining Feminist Technofutures, with Sharon Webb, Usha Raman, Mar Hicks, and Aisha Sobey. In a wide ranging discussion that questioned […]
Read moreIn honour of the upcoming festive season, Ash, one of our Civic Engagement Volunteers, looks for Christmas-themed items in the …Continue reading →
Read moreIn April 2024, Turnitin released a Paper Lookup tool for Instructors in Learn Ultra course to retrieve, and download, students’ submissions. This is useful for accessing the submissions that had become unavailable after the disabling of the legacy Turnitin integration in Learn course (generally those from AY 2021-2022 and earlier), and will also provide access […]
Read moreIn summer 2024, Chris O’Neill, Green Digital Design Intern, completed a digital sustainability audit of the UX Service website. He looked at carbon emissions and page weight but also examined usage of the site, with analytics data and user research. We adopted his findings to make the site greener and more user-centred. The annual ISG […]
Read more(This post previously appeared on the Open Scotland blog and on Open.Ed.) The 3rd UNESCO World OER Congress took place in Dubai last week. The previous two congresses, held in Paris in 2012, and Ljubljana in 2017, resulted in the Paris OER Declaration and the Ljubljana OER Action Plan, which was the forerunner of the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER. The output of […]
Read moreWe gave three interns three months to investigate, measure and identify strategies to reduce carbon emissions of the University’s web estate. Here are my reflections as the manager of the Green Digital Design internship We recruited three Green internships to investigate sustainable design solutions Early in 2024, I started planning a summer internship within the […]
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