Last month the University of Edinburgh rolled out a new centrally supported Academic Blogging Service, which provides staff and students with a range of different blogs to support professional development and learning, teaching and research activities. The service has already been hugely successful, with almost 200 new blogs created in the last four weeks. My […]
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I didn’t manage to post a blog post on Ada Lovelace Day this year because I spent most of my spare time in the run up to the event looking for sources for the twenty contemporary Women in STEM nominated for Wikipedia article creation as part of the University of Edinburgh’s Ada Lovelace Day Editathon. […]
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Earlier in July I was delighted and a little stunned when the University of Edinburgh won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award for the second time. Delighted because so many people have worked so tirelessly and so enthusiastically to embed Wikipedia in teaching and learning across the University, led of course by our indefatigable […]
Read moreWay back at the beginning of July my lovely OER Service colleague Charlie and I had a 10X10 presentation accepted for the the Repository Fringe conference. We agreed that I would write the talk and Charlie would go along and present on the day. Alas disaster struck and poor Charlie came down with a nasty […]
Read moreTranscript and slides from my keynote at the CELT 2018 Design for Learning Symposium, NUI Galway. The Soul of Liberty: Openness, equality and co-creation from Lorna Campbell The theme of today’s conference is designing teaching and learning spaces to facilitate active learning, collaboration and student engagement however my experience lies not so much in physical […]
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I’m absolutely delighted to be invited to present one of the keynotes at this year’s CELT Symposium at NUI Galway. I’ve never been to this event before but I always follow it online as it often has excellent keynotes and a really lively social media presence. I’ve also never been to Galway before and to […]
Read moreTranscript and slides from my keynote at the FLOSS UK Spring Conference in Edinburgh. Exploring the Open Knowledge Landscape from Lorna Campbell I’m not a programmer. I’m not a developer. And I don’t contribute directly to the creation of free and open source software. I originally started out as an Archaeologist but I now work in the […]
Read moreTranscript and slides from my keynote at the OER18 Open For All Conference in Bristol. Being invited to keynote is always a privilege, and I’m particularly honoured to have been invited to present the opening keynote at this year’s OER18 Conference here in Bristol. Not least because I’m following in the footsteps of the three […]
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This is my presentation for the amazing PressED Conference #PressEdConf18, run by the equally amazing Pat Lockley @pgogy, and Natalie Lafferty @nlafferty. My “talk” is about surviving precarious employment and using WordPress to build an independent academic identity and support formal CPD through CMALT. Hello, I’m Lorna & I work at the OER Service @OpenEdEdinburgh […]
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Today is International Women’s Day, and as a passionate Wikipedian, I want to give a shout out to everyone who is working so hard to address the gender balance of articles on Wikipedia. It’s no secret that Wikipedia has a gender problem, here’s the encyclopedia’s own article on the topic: Gender bias on Wikipedia. On […]
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