Mapping 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 […]
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Wikimedia in Education 2nd Edition
Seven new case studies have been added to the 2nd Edition of the University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK’s booklet […]
Read moreWikipedia, inclusive practice and improving representation online
Since January 2016, I have worked as Wikimedian in Residence with the University of Edinburgh’s course teams to quickly generate real examples of technology-enhanced learning activities appropriate to the curriculum. As a result, students from diverse learning communities and a variety of disciplines benefit from learning new digital and information literacy skills appropriate for the […]
Read moreOpen Content Intern for ISG: how can OERs help digital spaces?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog is cross-posted from the ISG Student Employee Blog. Programme of Study and Year: MA Fine Art, Year […]
Read moreA Culture of Sharing: Strategic Support for OER at the University of Edinburgh
Many thanks to P-8 Digital Skills Project “Strengthening Digital Skills in Teaching”, ETH Zürich and ZHAW for inviting me to speak at their OER Conference 21. Slides and transcript of my talk, which highlights the work of Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan McAndrew, GeoScience Outreach students and Open Content Curation Interns, are available here. Before we […]
Read moreM&M Podcast on Knowledge Equity
Earlier this week I had the very great pleasure of joining my colleagues Myles Blaney and Michael Gallagher for their fabulous M&M Podcast to talk about knowledge equity. I’m a big fan of the M&M Podcast and knowledge equity is a topic that is very close to my heart so I really enjoyed the experience. […]
Read moreBoris Johnson presented Joe Biden with my photo of Frederick Douglass to mark their first meeting
A picture I shared on Wikimedia has been given by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a gift to President Joe Biden. Just goes to show that serendipitous things happen when you share openly. President Biden and Dr Biden are visiting the UK this week. In preparation for the visit the Downing Street offices began …
Read moreOpen education and knowledge equity for all
This is a transcript of a keynote I gave at the Open University H818 The Networked Practitioner conference. The principles of open education were outlined in the 2008 Cape Town Declaration, one of the first initiatives to lay the foundations of w…
Read moreOpen Practice in Practice
Last week I had the pleasure of running a workshop on open practice with Catherine Cronin as part of City University of London’s online MSc in Digital Literacies and Open Practice, run by the fabulous Jane Secker. Both Catherine and I have run guest webinars for this course for the last two years, so this […]
Read moreAda Lovelace Day: Dr Isabel Gal
This year for Ada Lovelace day, I wrote a new Wikipedia page about Dr Isabel Gal, a Hungarian paediatrician and Holocaust Survivor who, in 1967, was responsible for establishing a link between use of the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos and severe congenital birth defects. I came across Gal quite by chance via the @OnThisDayShe twitter […]
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