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Category: <span>#DigitalCitizen Campaign</span>

International Women’s Day: A Reading List

Reading Time: 3 minutes Highlighting women’s experiences online To mark International Women’s Day (8 March) 2021, the Digital Skills team have created a Resource List (no login required, also available as a PDF download: IWD 2021 Reading List) comprising books, articles and essays seeking to empower women in the digital age and shed light …

Safer Internet Day 2021: #DigitalCitizen One Year On

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Year in Digital Safety To celebrate Safer Internet Day this year, I thought I’d look back on the first year of the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Safety and Citizenship initiative. In many ways, it’s been a year unlike any other, filled with hard lessons, disruption and adaptation. One beacon …

Blue Monday, Digital Wellbeing and LinkedIn Learning

Reading Time: 3 minutes Blue Monday Blues Today (18 January 2021) is Blue Monday and, considering how this January has gone so far, things feel, to me at least, just a little bit harder than they normally do at this time of year. I don’t think I’m alone in having pinned all my hopes …

Digital communities in trying times

Reading Time: 4 minutes Covid-19 has presented a unique challenge for the higher education sector A week ago today on 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised Covid-19 as a pandemic and I was just beginning to clock onto the severity of the situation. It seems rather naive now, but just seven …

#DigitalCitizen: An Awareness Campaign

Reading Time: 3 minutes Embedding Digital Citizenship into the University Community Tomorrow, 11 February, is Safer Internet Day and here at the University of Edinburgh, the Digital Skills and Training team are launching #DigitalCitizen: an online campaign aimed at raising awareness about digital safety and the responsible use of technology. It is my hope …

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