Reading Time: 1 minuteAnswer (1): Barium (boom-boom!) Answer (2): Write their story on Wikipedia, especially if they were female.* One of the best bits of my job is working with Ewan McAndrew, our excellent Wikimedian in Residence. Our Ada Lovelace Day and Innovative Learning Week editathons back in … Continue reading What do you do with a dead chemist?
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I was chuffed to discover today that English Wikipedia’s main page features a link to sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh. It’s always great to see women featured on Wikipedia’s main page, which is viewed by around 4 million people, but I confess to being doubly pleased because I created the […]
Read moreOn Friday 28th April 35 colleagues from across the University came together for the second UoE Open Knowledge Network meet up. The event featured a morning of speakers followed by workshops in the afternoon. Guillaume Evrard has created a Storify of tweets from the event here University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network PhD Thesis Digitisation Project by Gavin Willshaw, University Library & Collections PhD Thesis Digitisation Project from Lorna Campbell Wikipedia in the Classroom – World Christianity by Alex Chow, School…
Read moreA brief report on the International Open Science Conference held in Berlin in March, presented at the University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network event on 28th April 2017. Open Science Conference report from Lorna Campbell The Open Science Conference held in Berlin in April was the 4th international conference sponsored by the Leibniz Research Alliance and […]
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Last week I wrote a reflective blog post about starting out on the CMALT journey, What do you do?, and was delighted to get lots of really helpful practical input from the ALT community on twitter. I’ve captured the advice and discussions in a Storify here Starting CMALT – Advice from the community so I can look back on them and in […]
Read moreThe event will take place in room 6 & 7, Floor E, Argyle House. 09.30 – 10.00 Coffee and networking 10.00 – 10.05 Welcome – Ewan Klein & Lorna M. Campbell Presentations 10.05 – 10.20 Gavin Wilshaw – Thesis digitisation project 10.20 – 10.35 Alex Chow – World Christianity & Wikipedia 10.35 – 10.50 Jeremy Knox – Algorithms and MOOCs 10.50 – 11.05 Jo Spiller – MOOC production 11.05 – 11.15 Lorna M. Campbell – International Open Science Conference report…
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I’ve been thinking on and off for the last few days about the fascinating discussions going on around Open Pedagogy. Maha Bali has curated a diverse and thought provoking series of posts on the topic here and has organized a hangout to discuss What is Open Pedagogy? later today. Other than commenting on a few […]
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“So what do you do?” can be a bit of a difficult question to answer when you work in the domain of learning technology. And depending on which area of learning technology you work in it can be a harder question to answer for some than others. My default answer tends to be “I work […]
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Having run many Board Game Jams over the past year, it was great to be able to bring the 1hr version to the OER17 conference in London. Appropriately for the conference theme, The Politics of Open, each of the games created in this session had a politi…
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23 Things for Digital Knowledge has been awarded the Credo Digital Literacy Award for LILAC 17. The Credo Digital Award for Information […]
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