October 2018
Gif It Up – Advance your Gif making skills
Build on your Gif making skills and flex your creativity by making clever and graphically fun gifs from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival materials. This course is best suited to those who have attended the introductory Gif making workshop or who have some basic experience using graphic editing software tools.
Find out more »November 2018
Will it Bite Me? Media, Licensing, and online teaching environments
This information session aims to provide teaching staff with the information and tools to use copyright and licensed materials in…
Find out more »Getting started with Wikipedia – Editing using the new Visual Editor interface
This is a workshop aimed primarily at anyone who is interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia but, up until now, were never entirely sure how or why to begin.
New editors are very welcome as full Wikipedia editing training will be given during this session and afterwards you can ask questions of the trainer about anything you were unsure of or next steps or anything else you maybe interested in.
December 2018
Copyright & Licensing Training
This Copyright and Licensing training course is well-suited to those who require a basic understanding of copyright law, licensing, and open educational resources. For those who already have some knowledge of copyright law and licensing, this course can serve as a refresher. Opportunities for questions and discussions will be ample.
Find out more »Introduction to Wikipedia’s sister project: Wikisource – the Free Digital Library
In this session we will introduce you to Wikisource: Wikimedia’s free library of openly-licensed source texts. Including, an introduction to what Wikisource is and how you can engage with it, a short practical activity where you will learn how to navigate Wikisource and proofread a page of text. And an example of how an out-of-copyright/openly-licensed PhD thesis has been transcribed to Wikisource so the text is now 100% searchable, quality-checked and linked to from Wikipedia just 1 click away.
Find out more »Will it Bite Me? Media, Licensing, and online teaching environments
This information session aims to provide teaching staff with the information and tools to use copyright and licensed materials in…
Find out more »Wikipedia Women in Red – Learn how to edit and help create biographies of notable women
Join us to write new Wikipedia articles to surface knowledge about notable women missing from Wikipedia. Suggested pages to edit/create will be provided but you will be supported to edit on any topic or person you wish to. No experience necessary.
Find out more »Train the Trainer event – Learn how to run Wikipedia training for inside/outside the curriculum
The University's Information Services team will run a training session for anyone who wants to learn how to run Wikipedia editing sessions for use inside or outside the curriculum.
This role will mean being able to train others how to navigate & edit Wikipedia, how to run an 'edit-a-thon', giving advice to colleagues where possible and being a point of reference to & from Wikimedia UK as appropriate.
January 2019
Will it Bite Me? Media, Licensing, and online teaching environments (Webinar)
This information session aims to provide teaching staff with the information and tools to use copyright and licensed materials in…
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