October OER of the Month – To Bee or not to Bee
The Geoscience Outreach programme allows students in their final year to work in partnership with a local school or community […]
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Open Educational Resources and Copyright
[This blog post is part of a series written for the Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA) to achieve accreditation as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. ] I’ve been working in Higher Education for six years now. Originally starting at The University of St Andrews as a Library Assistant an interest in copyright and … Continue reading Open Educational Resources and Copyright
Read moreAccessibility, Lecture Recording, and media use
[This blog post is part of a series written for the Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA) to achieve accreditation as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. ] In 2017/18 the Information Services Group (ISG) rolled out a new lecture recording system across The University of Edinburgh. Due to rising concerns from staff around use … Continue reading Accessibility, Lecture Recording, and media use
Read moreAda Lovelace, Exmoor ponies and the trouble with sources
I didn’t manage to post a blog post on Ada Lovelace Day this year because I spent most of my spare time in the run up to the event looking for sources for the twenty contemporary Women in STEM nominated for Wikipedia article creation as part of the University of Edinburgh’s Ada Lovelace Day Editathon. […]
Read moreWiki Loves Monuments 2018 – Pipped at the post!
Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikimedia’s annual photography competition, came to a close at the end of September. An astonishing 4,374 images of Scottish scheduled monuments and listed buildings were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons over the course of the month, over double last year’s total of 2,104 and almost a third of the 14,203 images uploaded in the UK. […]
Read moreWiki Loves Monuments 2018 – Pipped at the post!
Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikimedia’s annual photography competition, came to a close at the end of September. An astonishing 4,374 images of Scottish scheduled monuments and listed buildings were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons over the course of the month, over double last year’s total of 2,104 and almost a third of the 14,203 images uploaded in the UK. […]
Read moreAcademic Blogging; or what we did this summer…
https://twitter.com/UoE_LTW/status/1042790396752003075 We’re a week out from launching a new blogging service – a project that has had a number of false starts and delays along the way – and I am so impressed with the work the team have done to get thi…
Read moreEC-TEL 2018: Student Facing Learning Analytics Dashboards
Rattling back up the tracks from Leeds after a super-fast visit to the EC Technology Enhanced Learning conference. Sadly I couldn’t stay for the main conference, but thanks to the efforts of Dr Adam Cooper, myself, Dr Maren Scheffel and Dr Liz Bennet h…
Read moreWiki Loves Monuments 2018
Tomorrow marks the start of Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikimedia’s annual photography competition, which runs throughout the month of September. The rules are simple, all you need to do is register a Wikimedia Commons account, take an original picture of a scheduled monument or listed building, and upload it to Wikimedia Commons using this interactive map. […]
Read moreUniveristy of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award
Earlier in July I was delighted and a little stunned when the University of Edinburgh won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award for the second time. Delighted because so many people have worked so tirelessly and so enthusiastically to embed Wikipedia in teaching and learning across the University, led of course by our indefatigable […]
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