Amy’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 […]
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Grade-related Marking Criteria for Assessed Blogs
The development of these grade-related marking criteria has been led by Dr Nina Morris (School of GeoSciences) and Dr Hazel […]
Read moreALTC Personal Highlights
I’ve already written an overview and some thoughts on the ALTC keynotes, this post is an additional reflection on some of my personal highlights of the conference. I was involved in three sessions this year; Wikipedia belongs in education with Wikimedia UK CEO Lucy Crompton-Reid and UoE Wikimedian in Residence Ewan McAndrew, Influential voices – […]
Read moreLooking forward to ALTC: Wikimedia, Academic Blogging and Creative Engagement with OER
Not content with liveblogging the ALTC keynotes, gasta sessions and AGM, I’m also going to be taking part in two presentations and one panel. Yikes! So if you’re interested in learning why Wikimedia belongs in education, how to develop an academic blogging service based on trust and openness, and supporting creative engagement through open education, […]
Read moreProfessional Blogging: Acknowledging social media harassment
As part of the University of Edinburgh’s Academic Blogging Service, I’ve been teaching a workshop on Blogging to Build your Professional Profile. This workshop has run once a month since September last year and I’ve also presented tailored versions of it to various groups around the University, most recently to student interns who are working […]
Read moreBlogging about Blogging
I’ve been rather neglecting this blog recently, ironically because I’ve been busy blogging about blogging on other blogs :} The University of Edinburgh launched a new Academic Blogging Service, including a centrally supported WordPress platform, blogs.ed.ac.uk, last year and the service has really taken off. In addition to our workshop Blogging to Build your Professional […]
Read moreOpening Online Learning with OER
This is the transcript of a talk I gave last week at the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine’s Post Graduate Tutors Away Day at the University of Edinburgh. Slides are available here: Opening Online Learning with OER. Before I go on to talk about open education and OER, I want you to think about […]
Read moreHave No Fear – Learning to love your blog
Last week I taught the third run of our Blogging to Build your Professional Profile workshop and also had the pleasure of joining a lunchtime call with colleagues from ALT to talk about different approaches to team blogging. Something that struck me is that whenever I talk about blogging there are a number of issues […]
Read moreBlogging: Build Professional Profiles
This workshop created by Lorna M. Campbell of the Open.Ed service provides an overview of the benefits of professional blogging, […]
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