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Gif It Up – Introduction to Gif making
via GIPHY Calling all creative types, history nuts, graphic artists, animat...
March 5 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmIntroduction to Blogging for Hybrid Teaching
This new one-hour workshop explores how academic blogging can be used to su...
March 9 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmCopyright, Licensing, and Open Materials for Hybrid Teaching
This one-hour information session aims to provide teaching staff with the i...
March 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Blog Posts

February 26, 2021 4:21 pm
As LGBT History month draws to a close this month, I wanted to pay tribute to a collaboration brought about through Siobhan Claude at the University of Edinburghโs Staff Pride Network and my colleague, Lorna Campbell, who suggested telling the history of HIV/AIDS activism and awareness in Scotland on Wikipedia. It seemed inconceivable that Wikipedia โฆ
Open for Good: Five years of Open Education Resources at the University of Edinburgh
February 24, 2021 6:40 pm
In order to mark five years of Open Education Resources (OER) at the University of Edinburgh and to coincide with [...]
February 24, 2021 6:40 pm
In order to mark five years of Open Education Resources (OER) at the University of Edinburgh and to coincide with [...]
Open education and knowledge equity for all
February 16, 2021 10:01 am
This is a transcript of a keynote I gave at the Open University H818 The Networked Practitioner conference. The principles of open education were outlined in the 2008 Cape Town Declaration, one of the first initiatives to lay the foundations of w...
February 16, 2021 10:01 am
This is a transcript of a keynote I gave at the Open University H818 The Networked Practitioner conference. The principles of open education were outlined in the 2008 Cape Town Declaration, one of the first initiatives to lay the foundations of w...
Bees and Biodiversity ๐๐บ (ages 7-11) has 3 lessons on the contribution that bees make to our planet on the topics of pollination, bee diversity, and hexagons in the bee hive (STEM activity). #SpringIsComing
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