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Colours and Wellbeing – Initial Thoughts on the Next Volume of We Have Great Stuff Colour Books

8th October 2020 s1752608

Reading Time: 3 minutes First, I sincerely hope you are well and somehow coping in these uncertain times. Second, a very warm welcome to the start of what will hopefully become the We Have Great Stuff – Volume 3 colour book. Wherever you are thank you for tuning in here and taking the time to acquaint yourself with this […]

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Struggling with vision loss

4th June 2020 Stewart Cromar

Reading Time: 5 minutes Within the last month the vision in my right eye has significantly diminished. This personal blog post details what the impact has been on my daily life and how recent web accessibility work has helped me cope a little better. …

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Animal Crossing x University Collections

23rd April 2020 Stewart Cromar

Fancy curating your own University of Edinburgh (UoE) virtual exhibition in Nintendo’s Animal Crossing game? Good news, Getty have kindly shared an art generator tool that integrates with over 40,000 images published by the University’s Centre for Research Collections (CRC) under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY). What is Animal Crossing? In case you’re […]

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‘We have great stuff’ colouring book events

25th April 2019 Stewart Cromar

Yesterday we invited students to take a break from their exam revision and come along to a relaxing colouring book session at King’s Buildings. There was the opportunity to colour-in brand new student illustrations inspired by items and images from the University’s collections. There was the choice of individual A4 pictures or larger A1 collaborative […]

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New H5P Interactive Content Type: Branching Scenario (Part One)

13th March 2019 Jackie Aim

H5P February 2019 release H5P have launched three new interactive content types, Branching Scenario, Virtual Tour (360) and Dictation. For anyone who doesn’t know anything about H5P it is a free open HTML5 technology to easily add interactive content to your website with a plugin for WordPress, Drupal and Moodle. Branching Scenario allow authors to […]

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Reflections on our Adult Colouring Book Workshops

27th February 2019 Stewart Cromar

Jackie Aim, Stewart Lamb Cromar and Hristo Meshinski take a little time to reflect on last week’s Festival of Creative Learning workshops.

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Avatar Illustrations by Interactive Content

8th May 2017 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Four illustrations, the first of a white skinned woman with short blonde/white hair and dark glasses, the second of a mid-20s dark skinned woman with long black hair sitting on a chair, the third is a close-up of the second image, the fourth is a tanned woman with short brunette hair.

This set of 78 avatar illustrations were created by the Interactive Content team and the University of Edinburgh for Chest […]

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Open Unwrapped Dec 3rd – Garden of Ada

3rd December 2016 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
University of Edinburgh festive bauble gift by Pingked (Flickr) CC BY-NC

‘Garden of Ada’ is an adult colouring-in illustration of Ada Lovelace, based on the nineteenth century A. E. Chalon portrait […]

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Janet Anne Galloway (1841–1909) was an advocate for higher education for women in Scotland, supporter of the Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women and secretary of Queen Margaret College.
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Women's suffrage in Scotland - this page outlines the long and gruelling campaign that went on for 86 years before the Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced, which provided a few women with the right to vote. https://t.co/XCaEl2XNNi #Wikipedia20 #OER #Suffragettes
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Lilias Adie (c. 1640 – 1704) was a Scottish woman from Fife, who was accused of practising witchcraft but died in prison before sentence was passed. Her grave is the only known one in Scotland of an accused witch.
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