My first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern
Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week […]
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Intern Reflection: The End!
Over half a year has flown by since I joined the Information Services Group, and I cannot believe that my internship has come to an end. I have had the opportunity to help get the Open Textbook Creation Service going from its initial stages, and seeing the fruits of my labour has been particularly exciting recently.
Read moreIntern Reflection: ‘Words, words, words.’ (Hamlet 2.2.210)
Towards the end of my summer internship I’ve been working with a lot of words. Whether it be process documents, […]
Read moreIntern Reflection: Getting Started!
Hello! I’m Sanika, and it’s been three weeks since I’ve started on as the Open Textbook Creation Intern at the Information Services Group at the University, working with the Digital Skills, Design and Training section.
In these three weeks, I’ve edited educational resources for primary and secondary school students, formatted a digital handbook, and learnt what all those tiny symbols at the bottom of the page mean about copyright. I’ve been eager to implement the things I know from my previous experiences, and even more excited to discover how much I didn’t know about academic publishing and graphic design.
Read moreMapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time
A collection of presentations recorded at the Edinburgh Futures Institute on 23rd October 2024 on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft […]
Read moreISG Student Staff Member of the Year Award
Congratulations to Eden Swimer, winner of the Staff Student Member of the Year Award at the 2024 ISG Staff Recognition Awards. Eden was employed by the OER Service in 2023 to help organise and run our Digital Collection Day as part of the University of…
Read moreGoodbye 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 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 […]
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