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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  • Gif It Up – Introduction to Gif making

    Argyle House, Room EW.10 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    In this introductory workshop explore the fun world of gifs and learn how to make your own from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival materials.  Using free and open online tools.

  • Gif It Up – Advance your Gif making skills

    Argyle House, Room EW.10 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Introduction to Open Data with Wikidata and Histropedia – the timeline of everything

    Room 1.08, Main Library, George Square (Central Area) Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

    Absolutely anyone can use Wikidata for something, so people of all disciplines and walks of life are encouraged to attend this session. Basic knowledge of using the internet will be needed to get involved in the practical activity, but there are no other pre-requisites.
    Anyone interested in open knowledge, academic research, application development or data visualisation should come away buzzing with exciting new ideas!

  • Ada Lovelace Day 2018

    Kings Buildings JCMB Rm. 3217, Edinburgh

    On Tuesday 9th October 2018, the University’s Information Services team are running an edit-a-thon to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2018 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

    This year the event will have a particular focus on Contemporary Women in STEM and #ALD2018 is to be hosted at King’s Buildings with a evening networking event in the social space at the Joseph Black building (wine and nibbles supplied by the Royal Society of Chemistry).

  • Getting started with Wikipedia – Editing using the new Visual Editor interface

    Argyle House, Room EW.10 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Copyright & Licensing Training

    Argyle House (Room EW.14) Central Area, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Gif It Up – Introduction to Gif making

    Argyle House (Room EW.13) Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson St, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    In this introductory workshop explore the fun world of gifs and learn how to make your own from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival materials.  Using free and open online tools.