• Creative Commons & Open Licence Workshop – Clinical Educator Programme

    Seminar Room 2, Chancellors Building, Little France Chancellors Building, Little France, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    A private session for the Clinical Educator Programme. This workshop will provide: An overview of using copyrighted material in a HE setting, Copyright myths and exceptions in education, Creative Commons licences - what they mean, and how to identify them, Open Educational Resources - how to locate, use, and share as part of practice.

  • LLC – Open Licensing & OER Workshop

    Room 1.02, 50 George Square 50 George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    A private event for the School of Literatures, Languages, & Cultures.
    Learn how to locate and identify openly licensed materials online to use in your own teaching and presentations.

  • Wiki Women in Red – March meetup

    Argyle House, Room EW.10 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    In November 2014, just over 15% of the English Wikipedia’s biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WikiProject Women in [...]

  • Portobello: People and Places Wikipedia Editathon

    Portobello Library 14 Rosefield Avenue, Portobello, United Kingdom

    Join us for a day of editing Wikipedia to help improve pages on the online encyclopedia about the people and [...]

  • Gif It Up – LTW April Showcase

    Room 1.08, Main Library, George Square (Central Area) Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

    Explore the fun world of gifs with Gif It Up; learn how to make your own gifs from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival materials.  Using free and open online tools.
    This month’s Learning Technology Showcase is based on a Digital Literacy theme. Due to popular demand, we are happy to iterate one of the big hits from the Festival of Creative Learning, Gif It Up.

  • 23 Things – Consolidating Digital Knowledge (Webinar)

    Online webinar

    23 Things for Digital Knowledge is an award winning, open, and self-paced course for digital and online skills. In this webinar we’ll be looking at Things 10 – 23 and consolidating the knowledge and digital wisdom we’ve gained from exploring the course.

  • WikiProject: Law edit-a-thon

    Room 1.08, Main Library, George Square (Central Area) Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

    Law student Jemima John is running a WikiProject Law edit-a-thon on 15 May. This event is aimed towards adding and/or improving legal articles on Wikipedia as part of the WikiProject Law specifically in the area of technology law and intellectual property.

  • Digital Day of Ideas – Wikipedia and Wikidata: the sum of all knowledge

    Business School 29 Buccleuch Pl, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Using Wikidata, information on Wikipedia can be queried & visualised as never before. Beyond this, SPARQL queries can analyse datasets from Wikidata, and through federated queries, analyse data from multiple other sources.

  • Copyright & Licensing Training – June

    Argyle House (Room EW.07) Central Area, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    The practical applications in Higher Education of the most recent social or technical development (MOOCs, social media, digitisation and online [...]

  • Processions: a Wikipedia editathon celebrating 100 years of votes for women

    Training Room 1.11, Edinburgh University Library, 50 George Square , United Kingdom

    Celebrate the lives & contributions of the suffragettes and all the incredible women missing from Wikipedia! This event is part of 2018’s celebration of one hundred years since the Representation of the People Act (1918)came into force and women were finally given the right to vote.