News from the Interactive Content team based within the Information Services group at the University of Edinburgh. Managed by Stewart Lamb Cromar (@stubot).
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We have a great programme lined up for our 10th celebration of Ada Lovelace Day on the 14th of October. Book your place now! blogs.ed.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-…
ALT Ada Lovelace Day poster with QR code and drawing of Ada. Celebrating women in STEM.
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‘In Their Own Time’ - Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The #InteractiveContent team help launch a new #Digital Comic resource.
➡️ stubot.me/in-their-own-time/ ⬅️
#Accessibility #CreativeCommons #CcByNcSa
ALT In Their Own Time
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We're excited for #pint25! Get your tickets for #divingintodata in #Edinburgh on Mon.19 May ! A fun night awaits with a pint and learning how data can assess commuting time/mode of transport and how that affects #nurses + #midwives choice of workplace. edin.ac/4jugNbc
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Or, if you are more interested in users/people than system data, we have a really interesting internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all of our users: Digital Accessibility Intern: portal.unitemps.com/Search/J…
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Are you a student at Uni of Edinburgh? Are you looking for work this summer? We are now advertising our summer internships! Please apply! More information about some of them in this thread:
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For 5 years I've written personal blogs detailing my traumatic #T1D #SightLoss journey.
To help others understand my vision changes I also created 17 #H5P interactives. I’ve now collated all 10 diary entries into 1 open-licenced educational resource #CCBY.
stubot.me/five-years-of-sigh…
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We are recruiting! If you are passionate about media services like lecture recording and media streaming, come and join our lovely Media Team! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/… Closing date for applications 28th Nov!
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Got a few mins to learn about the accused #witches of Scotland this #Halloween?
@EdinburghUni graduate Ruby Imrie has recorded a user guide to our NEW v2.0 Map of Accused Witches, showing how to use all the new features & different pages across the site youtube.com/watch?v=jwM-n-or…
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Our newest tour, History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh, guides you along the Royal Mile to learn the real histories of the city’s accused witches.
Download our app or check out the trail here: curiousedinburgh.org/history…
Tour developed by @ellie1whitehead
#Edinburgh #Scotland
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New on @curiousedi and witches.is.ed.ac.uk - History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh walking tour open.ed.ac.uk/history-of-wit……
ALT History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh tour
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Now you can explore the accused witches of Scotland in place AND time with temporal data & panic periods now added. Along with NEW Map of Memorials, filters for accusations (pacts with devil, ritual objects, shapechanging) & 'who named who' Trial Mentions Network Graph #opendata
And with that... version two of our Map of Accused Witches in Scotland is live! Completed in the witching hour last night and launched @UoE_EFI this afternoon, this project marks 5 years of work of a trio of brilliant 'Witchfinder General' student interns:
witches.is.ed.ac.uk/
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Not too late to join us.
Starts 3pm in Lecture Theatre 2.35 on 2nd floor in swish @UoE_EFI building at 1 Lauriston Place.
Come join us!
Cc @UoE_LTW @EdinburghUni @EdUniStudents @HCAatEdinburgh @LLCatEdinburgh @EdinUniCAHSSres @InfAtEd @DesignInf @opendata_sco @DataCapitalEd
Join us on Wed 23rd October 3-5pm @UoE_EFI to remember the Accused witches of Scotland as we launch TWO projects:
1) Map of Accused Witches in Scotland - v2.0 has been 5 years in the making by our students
2) History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh walking tour
eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-i…
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Can generative AI help us to work smarter in Digital Accessibility?
I discussed this recently at the University of Kent’s recent Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar. The recording and transcript are now available: matthewdeeprose.github.io/ge…
#a11y
#accessibility
#EdTech
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#Lego kindly invited me to build a ship for the prestigious #LegoHouse in Denmark.
Going blind in 1 eye has been the hardest year & this creative challenge helped me move fwd. Read about ‘Maid of #Fabuland’ paddle steamer - stubot.me/maid-of-fabuland/
#SightLoss #VisionLoss #Braille
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Join us next week for this exciting launch event!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-i…
#edinburgh #scotland #walkingtours
@ellie1whitehead
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On Wed 23rd October 3-5pm @UoE_EFI we remember the Accused witches of Scotland and launch TWO projects: 1) Map of Accused Witches in Scotland - v2.0 has been 5 years in the making by our students 2) History of Witchcraft in Edinburgh walking tour.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-i…
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To celebrate #AdaLovelace Day 2024, I created two new colouring-in illustrations of notable #WomenInSTEM – author and codebreaker #IreneBrown, and geologist #CharlotteMurchison.
stubot.me/women-in-stem/
#ALD24 #UKOER #CreativeCommons #CcBy
ALT Monochromatic illustrations of Charlotte in formal Victorian attire and Irene in a 1940s polka dot dress outside.
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Today we celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay, an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
We have an afternoon of talks, activities and training all based in the Main Library.
thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/ada-lov…
ALT Ada Lovelace in profile surrounded by green circuit board lines and the words Ada Lovelace day.
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Join us in @CRC_EdUni on 6th floor of @EdUniMainLib to Celebrate #WomeninSTEM on @Wikipedia
Learn how to edit in 30-60 mins and then write & PUBLISH brand new articles of 50-100 words+ about inspiring Women in Robotics and A.I.
#AdaLovelaceDay #WeCanEdit
thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/ada-lov…
