My first week as an Open Content Curator Intern – Amy
Hi everyone, my name is Amy and I am one of the 2021 Open Content Curator Interns. I have just […]
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Final reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship
Before starting my internship as the Wikimedia Training Intern at the University of Edinburgh, I did not know much about Wikipedia and its sister projects. I had obviously used Wikipedia; to settle arguments, as a springboard for research and as a helping hand in some particularly difficult pub quizzes. However, I had not given much …
Read moreInternship Blog #3: #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020 by Hannah Rothmann
Today I had the chance to attend the #WCCWiki Colloquium 2020. This was an event organised by the Women’s Classical Committee UK. #WCCWiki describes itself as ‘a crowd-sourced initiative that aims to increase the representation of women classicists (very broadly conceived) on Wikipedia.’ [1] Since they started in 2016, they have edited and/or created more …
Read moreInternship Blog #1: My First Week by Hannah Rothmann
Hi, my name is Hannah and I will be going into the final year of my Classics degree in September. I have just finished week 1 of my Wikimedia Training Internship; the start date was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty that came with it. Adjusting to working remotely from home, meeting …
Read moreChampioning Open Source
Nominations open for OpenUK Awards Help to celebrate the University’s commitment to Open Source and showcase your projects by entering into the OpenUK Open Source Awards. Nominations are open until midnight 15 June 2020 Championing Open Source – a student perspective Before we start to discuss and understand why the University hired a 3rd-year student […]
Read moreThe End of an Internship
Looking back, I could not be happier with my time spent as Open Content Curator intern (a job title I have managed to stutter and mess up in every way possible). I have learnt a huge amount – from the obvious things that I needed to learn to properly do my job of adapting educational resources for releasing as OERs to things about myself and how I work best to how to make Wikipedia articles!
Read moreFrom Open Source to Open Education
For the past three weeks I’ve been working as one of two Open Content Curator Interns, employed over the summer […]
Read moreSharing is Caring
My name is Ana – I am a third year mathematics student and I am just about to finish my third week working […]
Read moresupporting student employability
Offering students work experience in our organisation is a no-brainer for me. We get up to date ideas and creative thinking from them. They get real work experience and digital skills from us. In LTW we are happy to host 24 new student interns this summer (11 Employ.ed, 10 VLE support, 2 Napier Placements, 1 …
Read moreReflecting on the Importance of Open Education
This post is the sixth in a series of blog posts for Open Education Week. By Martin Tasker, former Open Content […]
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