Bye Argyle House! Final Reflection as an OER Intern
It has been almost ten months since I wrote this blog post when I ended my summer internship as an […]
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Goodbye and Thank You to our OER Service Interns
At the end of this month we’re saying goodbye to all four of our fabulous OER Service interns Mayu Ishimoto, […]
Read moreReflections on ‘Their Finest Hour’
In July 2023, I began working on Their Finest Hour, my internship, I was initially told, would last six months. Yet, I am now clocking off, one year later, after continuous exciting and rewarding work on the project. The last year has involved a huge variety of challenges. Organising the collection day itself involved events […]
Read moreRecording Everyday Social History – Open Educational Resource
Over the last few months, I have been working on an Open Educational Resource (OER) based on Their Finest Hour and stories and objects collected during the Digital Collection Day in Edinburgh. The OER, Recording Everyday Social History, which is aimed at the second and third levels of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (age range […]
Read moreEdinburgh Futures Institute image gallery
To celebrate the opening of the new Edinburgh Futures Institute building last week, the OER Service has shared a gallery […]
Read moreFootball: More Than A Game
With the UEFA European Football Championship kicking off this week, why not explore the world of football with these open […]
Read moreTeaching data literacy with real world (witchy) datasets
Our Digital Humanities award-winning interactive map (witches.is.ed.ac.uk) caught the public’s attention when it launched in September 2019 and has helped to change the way the stories of these women and men were being told with a campaign group, Witches of Scotland, successfully lobbying the Scottish Government into issuing a formal apology from the former First […]
Read moreA Whole University Approach to Sustainability
The University’s efforts to fight the climate crisis are incorporated across everything we do, including work to reduce carbon emissions and embed sustainability into research, teaching and governance, operations, and partnerships. This includes the work we do in the OER Service and with our Online Course Production Service colleagues.
Read moreTheir Finest Hour Archive Launch
On the 6th June, the online archive for Their Finest Hour will be launched, after 73 Digital Collection Day events took place across the UK in 2023 and 2024, including the one that we ran at the University of Edinburgh on 25 November 2023,. Overall, Their Finest Hour digitised over 25,000 previously hidden artefacts from […]
Read moreEdinburgh Award 2023/24 Success!
Edinburgh Award 2023/4 Blog This year I had my first experience helping with the Edinburgh Award Wikipedia project. The Edinburgh Award is a scheme which encourages students to volunteer in various projects that are happening around the University whilst undertaking their studies, with the ultimate aim of improving employability and graduate outcomes. Having undertaken an […]
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