OER Service Digital Skills Events
The OER Service runs a wide range of workshops and events as part of the University's Digital Skills programme. Our up and coming events are listed below, and you can find a full list of workshops we offer here: OER Service Digital Skills. If you would like us to come to your school or college to run a session tailored to your requirements, please contact us at open.ed@ed.ac.uk.
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Ada Lovelace Day
On Tuesday 10th October 2017, the University’s Information Services team celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
There will be a range of guest speakers in the morning followed by fun technology activities from 11am to 2pm. Full Wikipedia editing training will be given at 2-3pm. Thereafter the afternoon’s editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles related to Women in STEM!
Each year OER created for the Ada Lovelace celebration are added to, and shared, on the Thinking.IS Ada Lovelace Day OER webpage.
Programme
1. Talks and Fun Science
James Clerk Maxwell Building – Room 1206C
11.00am to 12pm – Ten minute talks
- Talk on Byte-Sized Bioinformatics – Dr. Heleen Plaisier and Dr. Daniel Barker.
- Dr. Michael Seery – Talk on Wikipedia and the Letter of 19; the fight for acceptance of British Women Chemists.
- Stewart Cromar – Update on the Lego Ada Lovelace project.
- Clare Button – The Noreen and Kenneth Murray Archives.
- Various – Elevator Pitches for the afternoon activities.
Tech activities
12pm to 2pm
JCMB Building – Room 2901
Byte-sized Bioinformatics – Make music from DNA sequences with Sonic Pi
This session runs for 30 minutes and will take place in at the following times: 12.00-12.30; 12.30-13.00; 13.00-13.30; 13.30-14.00.
Just drop in on the day, or email us in advance to secure a space: 4273pi@ed.ac.uk
JCMB Building – Room 1206C
Graphene knitting, origami crystallography . Colour in design activity. The new improved Metadata Games – version 2.0, create your own Histropedia timelines.
Book here to attend the talks and fun science/tech activities.
2. The Wikipedia editathon
James Clerk Maxwell Building – Room 4325C
2pm to 5pm
Have you ever wondered why the information in Wikipedia is extensive for some topics and scarce for others? Did you know that, as of July 2017, approximately only 17.03% of the biographies on Wikipedia relate to notable women?
Full Wikipedia editing training will be given at 2-3pm. Thereafter the afternoon’s editathon will focus on improving the quality of articles related to Women in STEM!
Book here to attend the editathon.
3. ‘A Chemical Imbalance’ Film screening and panel discussion
James Clerk Maxwell Building – Lecture Theatre B
5:15pm to 6:15pm
‘A Chemical Imbalance‘ is a short documentary film and book that ask why Edinburgh has such a long history of successful female chemists, and why women are still under-represented in all science fields. Following the film, Anne-Marie Scott will chair a panel discussion of the issues raised in the film; namely the low participation of Women in STEM fields and equality in the workplace.
The confirmed panelists are:
- Professor Polly Arnold, the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry and winner of the Rosalind Franklin Award.
- Professor Jane Norman FMedSci, FRSE, Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health, Deputy Director Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh.
- Dr Carole A Morrison, Reader in Structural Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh.
Book here to attend the film screening and discussion panel.
Header image: Cropped Ada Lovelace portrait, painting by Alfred Edward Chalon, Public Domain
