Sleeping Well and Meditation: Looking after your mind and body
A while ago I wrote about daily exercise and why it could be good for your body and mind, particularly […]
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Daily exercise – why you should (and why you would) do it…
How often do you exercise? And for how long? Some people might answer twice a week, three times… some maybe […]
Read moreWikimedia and the Diversity of Languages online – Guest post by Clea Strathmann
Globally, over 7,000 languages are spoken – only around 4% of people are native English speakers. Despite this, English holds the title of the “Language of the internet”. It dominates with Chinese almost 50% of global web traffic with the top ten languages accounting for 76.9 percent of global internet users. The majority of African […]
Read moreSupporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
I am now at the end of week four of my role as a Wikisourceror – Open Collections intern, and the learning process has continued; albeit now I am a bit more familiar with the world of Wiki! I have now created two new articles on Wikipedia (for Hannah Shields and Iona McGregor), and this […]
Read moreAmy’s Edinburgh Award for the Open Content Internship
As part of our Open Content Curation Internship, we have been given an opportunity to complete the Work Experience focused […]
Read moreAlysha’s experience using the volcanoes OER -Blog
Hello! I am Alysha, an open content curator intern for the summer of 2021. I also love volunteering as a […]
Read moreNot retreating
Last week we held our first Office of the Deputy Provost all day retreat. My office contains the Office of the Registrar, Learner Support Services, and the Centre for Learning Accreditation (at the moment, it will expand, more on that another time). We had games, … Continue reading Not retreating
Read moreM&M Podcast on Knowledge Equity
Earlier this week I had the very great pleasure of joining my colleagues Myles Blaney and Michael Gallagher for their fabulous M&M Podcast to talk about knowledge equity. I’m a big fan of the M&M Podcast and knowledge equity is a topic that is very close to my heart so I really enjoyed the experience. […]
Read moreOpen Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
Before I started this internship, I was an incredibly busy third-year Psychology student studying at the University of Edinburgh. Now, I’m spending my summer before my final year as an intern for the Information Services Group at the university. During my first week, I’ve had a lot of new information thrown at me about what […]
Read moreMy first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
View an Intro to Wikisource – the free and open digital hyper library! (1hr)
Upload pdfs of free books to Wikipedia’s sister project and help proofread the OCR-ed text so readers can discover, enjoy and be inspired by songs, letters, p…
