Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia 25/26
Video presentations by our 2025/26 students who completed the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – Edinburgh Award. The Edinburgh Award is […]
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Christmas and festive recipes on Wikibooks
If you’re anything like me, as the dark days bed in I start to look for treats and sparkles of all kinds to brighten up the winter days and nights. One of my favourite places to explore this time of year are the recipe sections on Wikibooks. Wikibooks is one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone (including you) can edit.
Read moreDigital Volunteering with Wikipedia 24/25
Video presentations by our 2024/25 students who completed the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – Edinburgh Award. The Edinburgh Award is […]
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 moreWikimedia 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 …
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