“We are not minority languages, we are minoritised. And we are the global majority” – Tura Arutura, Social Justice activist, creative artist and dancer. At the end of September, I had the great good fortune to be invited to the Celtic Knot conference in Waterford, Ireland hosted by Wikimedia Ireland and Wikimedia UK. This conference […]

Since I last wrote after I returned from Wikimania, I have been working on getting version 2.0 of the website up to scratch! The new version of the website is set to launch this October, which meant there was a lot to get done before then.Firstly, the website framework was due for an upgrade from […]

Looking back at all my different Lego mosaics, I offer insights into the design process and provide full instructions for a variety of budgets. These digital and physical artworks have been used as open-education resources (OERs) for both personal and professional projects.

Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments! Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo competition which takes part throughout the month of September every year, and is supported by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. You can see historic locations near you that are missing an image using our handy interactive map (red pins are locations without an […]

  On July 15th I returned as ‘Witchfinder General’ – Data Visualisation Intern for another 3 months of working on the Map of Scottish Accused Witches of Project. We are now 4 weeks in and I have lots to share.I went to my first ever conference – Wikimania! Wikimania is an annual conference hosted by […]

We are excited to announce there are some changes coming in Media Hopper Replay, which will improve usability and make it easier for students to find specific lecture content. We are introducing a new player for the start of teaching. This is a new user interface for students to use viewing content and will be […]

There are some exciting updates coming to Media Hopper Create, the University’s portal for creating, uploading, sharing and editing media content. The update will come with new features designed to enhance the user experience and streamline media management to make it more efficient.    Some of the new features to look out for will include: Homepage Refresh: The […]

The most recent Scottish Blackboard User Group (ScotBUG) was hosted by The University of Edinburgh at Argyle House. Bringing together members from across Scottish and Northern Ireland further education institutions to discuss all things Blackboard related. A very good turnout for this ScotBUG user group with 36 participants in attendance across a hybrid setting.   […]

On the 19th of July (past Friday) we had a global IT outage which impacted hospitals, trains, air travel, supermarkets and many other businesses.  It seems like it was caused by a small/inconspicuous update to a bit of anti-virus software for Windows operating systems which seemed to ‘break’ Windows.  Although …

I’ve lived on cake for the past two days including a cake fuelled breakfast yesterday, and lunch today.  It’s all about eating a balanced diet (one of the cakes had apricot in it, surely that counts?). What would drive Karen to eat so much cake I hear you ask (although anyone who knows me will […]